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Women of Grace Retreat: HOPE for the Journey
Women of Grace Retreat:
"HOPE for the Journey" July 25-27, 2025
Speakers include:
Johnnette Williams
Bishop William Waltersheid
Dr. Donald Wallenfang
Kitty Cleveland
Music with Living Praise Worship Team!
Malvern Retreat House, Malvern, PA
Special this Jubilee Year! The Blessed Carlo Acutis Shrine at the Malvern Retreat House is a Sacred Jubilee Site in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for the clergy and faithful to obtain the Jubilee Indulgence!
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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. -
Kitty Cleveland
Kitty Cleveland, a singer/songwriter, inspirational speaker, and artist from New Orleans, began her professional career as a lawyer and then as a college instructor. But in an adoration chapel one day in 1998, as she searched for God during a devastating family crisis, she clearly heard the Lord Jesus call her to become a "music missionary." Kitty has since released 10 CDs of music and prayer. Those CDs became the foundation for her nonprofit, Sounds of Peace, which has a mission to share the consolation of her music and prayer with the poor, the sick, and the dying at no charge to them.
Kitty has appeared numerous times on EWTN, Boston Catholic TV, on the radio, in concert, and as a keynote speaker both at home and abroad. She lives in the New Orleans area with her musician husband, and they are slowly adjusting to an empty nest. In addition to leading hundreds of people in praying the rosary each weekday morning online at 5:45 am CT (you are cordially invited!), she enjoys cooking, gardening, and oil painting. Kitty’s first book, From Prison to Paradise: A Sory of Radical Trust in God’s Divine Mercy (The Word Among Us Press) is now available on Amazon or at your local Catholic bookstore.
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Donald Wallenfang, OCDS, PhD
Donald Wallenfang, OCDS, PhD is a Secular Discalced Carmelite, Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, and Academic Advisor for the Benedicta Institute. He received his MTS from St Norbert College and his PhD in systematic theology from Loyola University Chicago. He has published twelve books as well as numerous articles and book chapters on a variety of topics in Catholic theology and philosophy. His areas of expertise merge at the intersection of Carmelite spirituality, phenomenology, metaphysics, and sacramental theology. Wallenfang served in full-time Catholic youth and young adult ministry for nine years. He has been married to his wife, Megan, for twenty-three years and has six children.
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Most Reverend William Waltersheid
Most Reverend William John Waltersheid is Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh and Titular Bishop of California, ordained by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011. He is a Third Order Discalced Carmelite and he is Spiritual Advisor to Women of Grace® and Benedicta Institute for Women.
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Living Praise Worship Team
The women of the Living Praise Worship Team come from all walks of life – married, single, divorced, annulled, remarried, professionals, stay at home moms, and home-schoolers. We raise children, grandchildren, horses, dogs, gardens and flowers. We lead and serve in other music groups in our churches, Catholic and Protestant, traditional and charismatic. What has brought us together is a desire to serve the body of Christ with the gifts of worship the Lord has given us. We strive not to perform but share a gift of passionate worship, bringing those we minister to into the Lord’s presence. “Living Praise” is a Music Ministry Worship Team founded on the call to worship the Lord through song and praise.We strive to bring an inspiring spirit of worship wherever we sing, inviting all to become “living praise” for the Lord with us. Though some of our members have sung and worshipped together for nearly 25 years, the group’s formal ministry began in 2000 providing worship for women’s conferences at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Since then, Living Praise has ministered to over 20,000 at churches, revivals, retreats and other Christian conferences and events. We have provided worship music for numerous Diocesan Women’s Events including the Dioceses of Steubenville, Pittsburgh, Greensburg, Youngstown, Altoona, and the Archdiocese of Detroit. One of the regular groups we serve is “Magnificat: A Ministry to Catholic Women”. We provide worship music for the quarterly Magnificat prayer breakfasts for the chapter located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (www.magnificatpittsburgh.org). We also minister with music and worship at the biannual International Magnificat Women’s Conference in New Orleans, LA. To order worship music: www.livingpraiseworship.com.
