Upcoming Events ODCCW Board 2024 – 2025

57th ODCCW Convention, Southern Deanery - April 26-28, 2025; Hilton Rialto in Melbourne, FL

Leadership Symposium – July 26-27, 2025 at St. Stephen Christian Retreat Center, Titusville, FL

58th ODCCW Convention, hosted by Eastern Deanery – April 18-20, 2026

NCCW 105th Convention 2025 hosted by ODCCW in Orlando, FL

ODCCW Board Meeting Dates

January 25, 2025

April 25, 2025 Melbourne Hilton

Diocesan Events

Burse Club

A Burse is a fund that provides financial assistance to men studying at the seminary to become priests. 

As an ODCCW Burse Club member, you are asked to offer prayers for vocations and financial assistance for the education of men studying for the priesthood. You will be remembered in daily prayers by our seminarians.

Please put “Burse Club/Seminarian Tuition” in the memo line of your check. Mail your completed application form and check to Katherine Martin. Complete instructions and application form are linked here: Become a Member

Purse Club

Become a Purse Club Member - support religious women in formation. The NFCRV was established by the National Religious Vocation Conference in 2014 through an initial grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and additional funding from the GHR Foundation to assist NRVC member religious communities in welcoming candidates with educational debt.  The Fund is sustained through the generosity of individual donors and foundations and organizations, including the Helen Brach Foundation and the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW).

Personal Development Seminars

The Personal Development Team will come to your parish and conduct a one-day seminar for your members. 

Informational Flyer

Healing the Wounds Brochure

Helping Victims of Domestic Violence 

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NCCW Prayer to End Human Trafficking
Dear Heavenly Father,
We come to you today asking for your help with abolishing human trafficking.
We ask you to rescue those who are trafficked and are slaves and bring them to
safety without more harm. Help them to receive the proper guidance, counseling,
shelter and healing that is needed for them to overcome this violent act that was
placed upon them.
We pray for the families and friends of those trafficked that they may receive the grace and strength
required to persevere as they agonize over the loss of their missing loved ones and that You grant them
the joy of welcoming them home.
We pray for those who rescue and rehabilitate the victims of human trafficking that they work with
success, compassion, mercy and support from their communities.
We pray for just laws that prosecute the trafficker and the purchaser, and not the persons trafficked.
Grant Your wisdom to legislators, law enforcement, and courts around the world that they bring this
horrific practice to an end.
We pray for a world where there is no need for an impoverished family to send a child into a trafficking
situation; no need for a troubled youth to leave home and fall victim to trafficking; and no need for
persons to be tricked or sold into sex or labor trafficking.
We also pray for the traffickers, that they will stop these evil acts upon innocent lives.
God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, be our protector. Grant us the courage, strength,
and ability to fight successfully to end the scourge of human trafficking. Amen.
Mary Rowley                                                                    Maribeth Stewart Blogoslawski
NCCW 2018 Spirituality Commission Chair                   NCCW President

NCCW Mission Statement

The National Council of Catholic Women acts through its members to support, empower and educate all Catholic women in spirituality, leadership and service.  NCCW programs respond with Gospel values to the needs of the Church and society in the modern world.