2025 Priests' Retreat

Welcoming Priests from all around the country!

Sun, Jun 1 - Thu, Jun 5

"Ministering to the Broken: Parishioners, Church, Selves"

SCHEDULE



Sunday

    7-8pm       Registration, Fellowship

    8:45pm     Opening Prayer & Welcome


Monday - Wednesday

     8:00am          Breakfast

     9:00am          Morning Prayer

                                     Conference

    11:00am         Mass

    12:00pm         Lunch

     4:00pm            Evening Prayer

                                        Conference

     5:20pm            Social Hour

     6:00pm            Dinner

     7:00pm            Holy Hour 


Thursday

       8:00am             Breakfast

       9:30am             Morning Prayer

                                       Mass/Conference

       11:00am           Lunch and Departure


(Pastor [24 years] Emeritus, Our Lady of Victories Catholic Church, Baptistown NJ, A.B., St. Mary’s Seminary and University, Baltimore, 1963, J.C.L., Gregorian University, Rome, 1987, S.T.D., University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome, 1988, J.C.D., Gregorian University, Rome, 1996, Seminary faculties of Immaculate Conception Seminary, Darlington NJ; Mary Immaculate Seminary, Northampton PA; School of Theology, Seton Hall University; New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Jersey; St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore.) Topics: 1: Introduction; 2M: Theological Reflections on the Ministerial Priesthood Part 1; 3M: Theological Reflections Part 2; 2T: When All Goes South; 3T: Ministering to Broken Parishioners; 2W: Ministering in a Broken Church; 3W: Ministering as Broken Selves; 4: The Contours of Ministry to the Broken: Attentiveness, Forbearance, Faith