Catholic and Enjoying It!
Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, 2009
I hope and pray that you had a very Blessed Christmas season, and have a New Year that brings you deeper into the Sacred Heart of our beloved Lord! I also wanted to let you know of a couple of upcoming engagements…
On Tuesday, February 3rd at 2PM I will be giving a talk at the Montrose School in Medfield, Mass. If you are interested in attending, contact me for more information.
On the evening of February 9 I will be speaking to the inmates at Norfolk prison. I hope to see none of you there! But your prayers are very, very welcome.
I will be giving some talks along with Marino Restrepo (who has a very interesting conversion story and a very exciting ministry) in the Eastern Massachusetts/Rhode Island area around March 18-21. As venues become fixed I’ll put them up on my site. Immediately following that I will be speaking at a week-long retreat in Rougemont, Quebec.
For those of you in the U.K. , I will be leading a retreat at the Pantasaph Retreat House in Wales, U.K. (quite close to Manchester and Liverpool) over the Easter Triduum this year, Thursday April 9 to Easter Sunday, April 12. I expect it to be quite exciting, trying to enter deeply into those days of the Passion and the central event of our Salvation with a perspective rooted in the Judaism of the time. For more information, contact me or the retreat house .
April 25 and 26th I will be speaking at Holy Spirit Parish in Hamburg, Michigan (not far from Detroit).
May 20-26th I will be on a speaking tour in Ecuador. Then May 28-June 1 will be on a speaking tour in the San Francisco/Northern California area organized by my publisher, Ignatius Press. In mid-June I will be returning to England – right now June 20th is a fixed date in London, with several other talks in the UK in the days immediately preceding and following that one.
I have some time free in the UK around the June 20th date, and during the Northern California tour – if you know of someone who might like to have me speak then, drop me an email.
I will post all available information on these venues, and any others that come up, on my website. As I get more details, I will put them up, but of course you are always welcome to email me for more information, too.
One reason to send out notices like this is, of course, to inform people who may be able to come to one of the events, but the main reason – other than just to stay in touch – is to shamelessly beg for prayers for these activities, and for my “ministry” in general. Not for my sake, but that the Jewish people, Jesus’ own people, may come to the fullness of the life with God that they brought to the rest of the world! And to console the Heart of our beloved Lord, who is still waiting (and weeping) to be recognized by “His own” (Jn 1:11) – and of course, that His will may be done and He may return in glory! As the Catechism of the Catholic Church states (para 674): The glorious Messiah’s coming is suspended at every moment of history until his recognition by “all Israel.”
Let us all pray for that glorious day!
May God Bless you abundantly! — Roy
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In