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January 20, 2023 - January 22, 2023
Silent Weekend Retreat for Men and Women
“Work Out Your Salvation!” (Based on Philippians 2:12)
Fr. Wade L. J. Menezes, CPM
According to St. Augustine, “God created us without us; but He does not will to save us without us.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1847). God loves us so much, that He desires we have an active cooperation with Him in bringing ourselves to a life of His sanctifying grace, which is always His gratuitous gift. By striving each day to live a life of grace and virtue, Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Bride, the Church, provide us with all the tools necessary to achieve holiness in this life, but we must be faithful to it. How? By beginning with five simple steps: By being faithful to our daily duty, by being other-centered, by understanding the reality of both vice and virtue, by practicing and living the Sacraments, and by living a Trinitarian Spirituality – daily. What a great message this is for everyone, regardless of his or her vocation and state-in-life whether single, married, widowed, or diocesan or consecrated religious! Individuals $235, Couples $380 (includes lodging and 5 meals). Commuters $195. Lunches and dinners will not be silent.
Individual Titles of Five Retreat Conferences:
1. “Be Faithful to Your Daily Duty”
2. “Be Other-Centered”
3. “Understand the Reality of Vice to Virtue”
4. “Practice and Live the Sacraments”
5. “Live a Trinitarian Spirituality”
Synopsis of Parish Mission Series, “Work Out Your Salvation!”
Friday
6:00 pm Check-in / Registration
6:30 pm Greeting and Opening Conference
7:30 pm Mass in Main Chapel
Saturday
8:00 am Mass in Main Chapel
8:45 am Breakfast
9:45 am Conference
11:00 am Confessions, Spiritual Direction
12:00 pm Lunch
Saturday Afternoon
1:00 pm Walking, Quiet Time
3:00 pm Conference
5:30 pm Dinner
Saturday Evening
7:00 pm Conference
8:30 pm Quiet time or Open Discussion
Sunday
8:00 am Mass
9:00 am Breakfast
10:30 am Closing Conferen
12:00 pm Lunch and Departure
Fr. Wade L. J. Menezes, CPM Bio.
Fr. Wade L. J. Menezes, CPM is a member of the Fathers of Mercy, a missionary preaching Religious Congregation based in Auburn, Kentucky. Ordained a priest during the Great Jubilee Year 2000, he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Catholic Thought from the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Toronto, Canada and his dual Master of Arts and Master of Divinity Degrees in Theology from Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut. His secular college degrees are in journalism and communications.
Fr. Wade is currently the Assistant General and has served as Director of Vocations and Director of Seminarians for the Fathers of Mercy. Fr. Wade has also served as the Chaplain-in-Residence at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, Alabama. While at the Shrine, Fr. Wade was a daily Mass celebrant, homilist, and confessor; he also gave spiritual conferences on specialized points of Catholic Christian doctrine to the many pilgrims who visit the Shrine. Both the Monastery and Shrine are affiliated with EWTN, the Eternal Word Television Network.
Fr. Wade has been a contributing writer for The National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor, Catholic Twin Circle, Catholic Faith and Family, The Wanderer, Pastoral Life, The Catholic Faith, Lay Witness and Christian Ranchman publications. Several homiletic series of his have appeared in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, an international journal for Priests. Fr. Wade has also been a guest on various episodes of EWTN’s “Mother Angelica Live” and “Life on the Rock” programs during which he discussed such topics as the sanctification of marriage and family life, vocations, and the Sacred Liturgy. He has also hosted several televised series for EWTN, which have covered such topics as the necessity of the spiritual life, The Four Last Things, The Ten Commandments of Catholic Family Life, and The Gospel of Life vs. the Culture of Death. He is also the host of the EWTN segment series “The Crux of the Matter” and “The Wonders of His Mercy”. His many theological and doctrinal presentations have been featured on EWTN Radio, Ave Maria Radio, Guadalupe Radio Network, Covenant Network Radio, Catholic Broadcasting Northwest, and Voice of Virtue International. He is the author of two books from EWTN Publishing: The Four Last Things: A Catechetical Guide to Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell and Overcoming the Evil Within: The Reality of Sin and the Transforming Power of God’s Grace and Mercy. Fr. Wade is also the host of EWTN Global Catholic Radio’s “Open Line Tuesday. ”
