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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
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Malvern Retreat House:
610-644-0400
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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.