This year’s Women of Grace® Retreat, which will be held from July 17-19 on the historic 120-acre campus of Orchard Lake Schools in Orchard Lake, Michigan, is the ideal setting for an encounter with the Architect of your life.
Entitled, "My Grace is Sufficient for You: Woman and God's Divine Plan," this retreat will feature Johnnette Benkovic, Fr. Philip Scott, FJ and Dr. Monica Miller in an intensive three-day immersion in what it means to be a daughter of God, and how to live out that call in this our day and time. These restful grounds, which were so dear to the heart of St. John Paul II, are the perfect place to escape the world and acquire the spiritual and emotional nourishment you need in order to empower you to engage in the unique cultural battles of our time.
“The Women of Grace Retreat always awakens what has been hiding inside of me,” says Mary Dillenback of Fishers Landing, New York. “I leave with renewed courage and joy – grateful to know I am a daughter of the Most High God and that much closer to who God needs me to be!” The retreat will be preceded by the Benedicta Leadership Institute for Women on July 16 – 17. Johnnette and Dr. Miller will discuss, “The Authority of Woman: Her Influence, Effect, and Power."
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“A Virgin conceived, a Virgin bore,
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“What a wonder is your Mother!
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In January this year I sat in my kitchen early one morning, bleary-eyed after a fractured night’s sleep. (And I’m using the term “sleep” quite loosely.) The former night’s guilty parties, ages 2 and 5, lounged – in varied stages of consciousness themselves – on the couch, while I clutched a mug of coffee and scrolled through the day’s news stories. Suddenly I was wide awake, as I came upon the headlines of several Catholic sites: “Pope says Motherhood is Martyrdom.” Whoa.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSA businessman who was raised Catholic is in the fight of his life over two embryos he created with his ex-fiance, Hollywood starlet Sofia Vergara, who he is suing for custody of his two little girls.
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“Mary symbolizes the Church, which, espoused
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Only months after Jesus told a Nigerian bishop that the Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram, would be defeated by the rosary, former captives are reporting that the group is in disarray and is desperate for cash and weapons.
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In addition to sending out specially assigned “missionaries” to forgive even the most grievous sins, the Vatican has released more information about the upcoming Holy Year of Mercy such as its theme, logo,
official prayer, and calendar of events.
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