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Advent Retreat at the Malvern Retreat House "Advent: A Time for Hope, Healing, and New Life"

Advent Retreat at the Malvern Retreat House

"Advent: A Time for Hope, Healing, and New Life"

Retreat Speakers:

Fr. John Paul Mary Zeller, MFVA

Johnnette Williams

Advent: A Time for Hope, Healing, and New Life 

Father John Paul Mary Zeller and Johnnette Williams 

 

December 17-19, 2021 (Eastern Times)

Friday

5:00pm               Check-in 

6:00pm               Dinner – please arrive promptly 

7:15pm               Talk 1: Hope: Johnnette Williams 

O come, O come, Emmanuel, 

and Ransom Captive Israel 

that mourns in lonely exile here 

until the Son of God appear. 

8:30pm               Talk 2: Hope: Father John Paul Mary Zeller 

O come, O Branch of Jesse’s stem, 

unto your own and rescue them! 

from depths of hell your people save, 

and give them victory o’er the grave. 

9:30pm               Night prayer  

Saturday

8:00am              Breakfast/Announcements 

9:15am              Talk 3: Healing: Johnnette Williams 

O come, O Bright and Morning Star, 

and bring us comfort from afar! 

dispel the shadows of the night 

and turn our darkness into light. 

10:30am            Confession, Reflection and Private Prayer Time 

12:00pm             Lunch/Announcements/Sharing 

1:15pm               Talk 4: Healing: Johnnette Williams 

O come, O King of nations, bind 

in one the hearts of all mankind 

bid all our sad divisions cease 

and be yourself our King of Peace 

2:30pm          Talk 5: Healing: Father John Paul Mary Zeller  

O come, O Wisdom from on high, 

who ordered all things mightily. 

To us the path of knowledge show 

and teach us in its ways to go. 

3:45pm      Mass: Father John Paul Mary Zeller 

Talk 6: Healing  (Homily) – “He shall rescue the poor and the afflicted ….” 

4:00pm               Reflection and Private Prayer Time 

6:00pm               Dinner 

7:15pm           Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Healing Service 

Sunday

8:00am               Breakfast/Announcements/Sharing 

9:15am               Talk 7: New Life: Johnnette Williams 

Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel 

Shall come to you, O Israel. 

10:30am            Mass: Father John Paul Mary Zeller 

Talk 8: New Life (Homily) – “ Lord, make us turn to you; 

let us see your face and we shall be saved.’ 

12:00pm          Departure

Event Date/Time(s)

START: Friday, December 17 at 5:00 PM US/Eastern
END: Sunday, December 19 at 12:00 PM US/Eastern

Event Information

COST: $275 in persons, $75 virtually
LOCATION:
Malvern Retreat House
315 S Warren Ave
Malvern, PA 19355

Contact Information

Malvern Retreat House:

610-644-0400

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Event Speakers

  • Johnnette Benkovic Williams

    Johnnette Benkovic Williams is Founder and President of Women of Grace®, a Catholic apostolate for women featuring a number of outreaches including conferences, media, study groups and more.

    After years of being a non-practicing Catholic, Johnnette experienced a deep conversion back to her Catholic faith in 1981. Her conversion sparked a new vocation: sharing the Gospel message through the utilization of media. She has been an inspiring and consistent presence on EWTN Catholic radio and EWTN Catholic television for over 30 years.
  • Father John Paul Mary Zeller, MFVA

    Father John Paul Mary Zeller, MFVA is a member of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word, a religious community of men, founded by the late Mother Mary Angelica, PCPA.  The MFVA’s were founded in 1987 by Mother Mary Angelica to preach and teach the Catholic Faith through the modern means of social communication, television, radio, internet and printed word, as well as leading retreats and attending to the spiritual and sacramental needs of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration.  Father John Paul was ordained to the Sacred Priesthood of Jesus Christ by His Excellency Robert J. Baker on June 22, 2013 in the Cathedral of St. Paul in the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama.  His current assignment is at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama as the Assistant Chaplain.  On Ash Wednesday, February 10, 2016, Father John Paul Mary was commissioned by His Holiness Pope Francis, a Missionary of Mercy during the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy.  He received a special mandate to preach and to teach about the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation, Forgiveness, the Mercy of God and in Pope Francis own words— “the closeness of God.”  Pope Francis gave all the Missionaries of Mercy the faculties to lift the excommunication and absolve from 4 specific penalties or “sins” otherwise reserved to the Holy See. The four specifics are: Profaning the Eucharistic species by taking them away or keeping them for a sacrilegious purpose; the use of physical force against the Roman Pontiff; the absolution of an accomplice in a sin against the Sixth Commandment and a direct violation against the sacramental seal by a confessor.  Pope Francis reminded each of the Missionaries of Mercy that is Christ who welcomes, it is Christ who listens and it is Christ who forgives in the Confessional.