Dr. Alan Mostrom will present a talk on “The Presence of God in the Soul and the Presence of Christ in the Eucharist” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25 at Columbus Our Lady of Peace Church, 20 E. Dominion Blvd. The talk is part of the parish’s ongoing Eucharistic revival speaker series.
Mostrom teaches seminary classes at The Athenaeum of Ohio in Cincinnati on Christian anthropology, Christology, ecclesiology, fundamental dogma and evangelization.
He was raised in Tacoma, Washington in the Pentecostal tradition and converted to Catholicism with his wife, Sarah, in 2009. He has received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Nyack College in New York, a Master of Arts degree in New Testament theology from Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky and a Ph.D. in theological studies from the University of Dayton.
Newark parish to host women's retreat
Newark St. Francis de Sales Church, 40 Granville St., will be the site for a retreat for women titled “Undone: Freedom for the Feminine Heart,” sponsored by the John Paul II Healing Center of Tallahassee, Florida, from Friday to Sunday, Jan. 25 to 27.
The retreat’s purpose is to help untie the knots of Eve’s disobedience that are “undone” through Mary’s model of radical receptivity.
The three-day retreat, led by Carrie Schuchts Daunt of the John Paul II Healing Center, dives into the origin of our brokenness, tracing back to the events involving Adam, Eve and the serpent in the Garden of Eden. In 1995, Pope John Paul II wrote in his apostolic letter, On the Dignity and Vocation of Women, "In Mary, Eve discovers the nature of her true dignity of women, of feminine humanity."
The John Paul II Healing Center has been reviewed by the diocesan Office of Evangelization and is in accord with the magisterial teachings of the Catholic Church as outlined in the Catechism of the Catholic Church under Pillar 3: The Life In Christ. An aspect of this resource is based on Pope St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.
“Through a variety of insightful presentations, small group discussions, interactive and guided meditations, time for prayer and Eucharistic Adoration, we will see the hearts of the women who attend the Undone retreat unravel, heal, be restored and made whole,” said Father David Sizemore, pastor at St. Francis deSales Church. “I pray that many women decide to invest some of their precious time into this experience, which I am confident will set them free for so much more time in the future to truly become and live as restored daughters of God.”
The event is being offered in person or virtually via livestream. Register online for either experience at www.jpiihealing.org.
The cost is $165 per person. Scholarships are available. Email [email protected] for more information.
For additional details on the conference, contact Tina Burtch at [email protected].
