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PROGRAM:
Lenten Brunch and Lecture Series - Saints for Our Day" - Reflections on the men and women beatified and canonized in our day and how their lives of provide us with examples of how to live our own lives especially during the time of lent.
- Sunday, February 17, 2002 - Blessed Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe with Prof. Dr. Warren Carroll.
- Sunday, February 24, 2002 - Blessed Josemaría Escrivá with Father William Stetson.
- Sunday, March 3, 2002 - Sister Faustina with Bob and Maureen Digan
- Sunday, March 10, 2002 - Blessed Nicholas Konrad with Dr. George Isajiw
- Sunday, March 17, 2002 - Blessed Padre Pio with speaker Vera M. Calandra
- Sunday, March 24, 2002 - Edith Stein with Hanna-Barbara Gerl Falkovitz
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WHERE:
Ivy Hall, 6331 Lancaster Ave., Philadelphia 19151 [click here for directions]
"Am I Not Here?"
Sunday, February 17, 2002
11:00 a.m. Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church
12:00 p.m. Brunch at Ivy Hall
1:00 p.m. Blessed Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Warren Carroll.
Dr. Carroll was the founder and first president of Christendom College. He has his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. He is the author of many books including Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness. Juan Diego was an Indian at the time of the Conquest in Mexico. The Blessed Virgin appeared to him and left an imprint of her image on his cloak after he had gathered roses in it to prove to the Bishop that Mary had actually appeared to him. Untold numbers of Native Americans converted to the Faith in the wake of this miraculous event.
"Personal Reflections on the Founder"
Sunday, February 24, 2002
11:00 a.m. Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church
12:00 p.m. Brunch at Ivy Hall
1:00 p.m. Blessed Josemaría Escrivá
Speaker: Father William Stetson.
Father Stetson is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
He has doctorate in canon law from the Angelicum in Rome. For many years Father Stetson served as the Vicar of the Prelature of Opus Dei in Chicago and oversaw remarkable growth in the apostolate and initiatives of Opus Dei during that time. Father Stetson knew personally the founder of Opus Dei, Josemaría Escrivá, who will be canonized this year. Josemaría Escrivá was born in Spain in 1902 and ordained a priest in 1925. During a retreat in 1928 God showed Blessed Josemaría that He wanted him to found Opus Dei as a means of bringing Christians to holiness in their daily lives. He died in 1975 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1992.
"In an Age of Despair – A Miracle and a Prophetic Message of Divine Mercy"
Sunday, March 3, 2002
11:00 a.m. Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church
12:00 p.m. Brunch at Ivy Hall
1:00 p.m. Sister Faustina
Bob and Maureen Digan will speak on St. Faustina.
Maureen was healed at St. Faustina's tomb, and the Church accepted her cure as a miracle. Both were present at the canonization. Sister Maria Faustina Kowalska was born in Poland. When she was 20 she entered the Congregation of Our Lady of Mercy. In 1931 Jesus appeared to her and directed her to foster a devotion to His Divine Mercy. She died in 1938 and was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2000, the first saint of the new millennium.
"Heroic Virtues in Modern Times"
Sunday, March 10, 2002
11:00 a.m. Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church
12:00 p.m. Brunch at Ivy Hall
1:00 p.m. Blessed Nicholas Konrad
Speaker: Dr. George Isajiw
Dr. Isajiw is a well known and beloved pro-life physician in the Philadelphia area. He is the grandson of Blessed Nicholas. Father Nicholas Konrad was a Greek Catholic priest born in 1876 in the Ukraine.
He taught in high schools and began teaching in the Theological Academy
in 1930. He was martyred by the Communists in 1941 as he was making a sick call. The place of the murder in the woods became a shrine where the faithful sought the intercessions of the martyred priest despite the Communists declaring there could be no access to the area. Miracles were reported from his intercession, and he was beatified in June, 2001.
Blessed Padre Pio
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Sunday, March 17, 2002
11:00 a.m. Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church
12:00 p.m. Brunch at Ivy Hall
1:00 p.m. Blessed Padre Pio
Speaker: Vera M. Calandra
Vera M. Calandra, Director of the National Centre for Padre Pio shrine in Barto, Pennsylvania, the only shrine in North America authorized by the Capuchin Friars. Padre Pio was born in Italy in 1887.
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In 1903 he entered the order of the Capuchin Franciscan friars. In 1918 he received in his body the five wounds of Christ, the first priest in the history of the Church to bear the stigmata. He was renowned for his holiness, for his zeal for souls and the many supernatural occurrences which attended his life and beyond. He died a holy death in 1968, and the Pope beatified him in 1999. The Holy See has announced that he will be canonized June 16, 2002.
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"Convert, Philosopher, Author, Religious: A Woman for All Seasons"
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Sunday, March 24, 2002
11:00 a.m. Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church
12:00 p.m. Brunch at Ivy Hall
1:00 p.m. Edith Stein
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hanna-Barbara Gerl Falkovitz
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Professor Gerl Falkovitz holds the Chair in the Philosophy of Religion and Comparative Religions at the University of Dresden. Cardinal Ratzinger of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had brought her work to the attention of the President of the International Institute for Culture. She has lectured many times at the IIC Summer Seminar on Faith and Culture in Eichstätt and is one of the great favorites of seminar participants.
Edith Stein, born in 1891, was a brilliant German Jewess who studied with Edmund Husserl and received her doctorate in philosophy summa cum laude. In her search for truth, she converted to Catholicism in 1922 and became a Carmelite nun. She became a highly regarded philosopher and author. She was killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz in 1942 and canonized in 1998. She is now known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.
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