Women of Grace® Event Details
Women of Grace Retreat, Malvern, Pennsylvania
REGISTER NOW!!! July 13-15
Join Women of Grace as we return to the Malvern Retreat House, the United States' largest and oldest Catholic Retreat Center, for yet another wonderful and transforming retreat together:
"Embracing the Holy Duet: Mary and the Holy Spirit"
Presenters Include:
Johnnette Benkovic
Father Philip Scott, FJ
Kathleen Beckman
Thomas K. Sullivan
Jack Williams
(Preceded by the Benedicta Leadership Enrichment Seminar July 12-13)
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Women of Grace Retreat
Malvern Retreat House
Embracing the Holy Duet: Mary and the Holy Spirit
July 13-15, 2018
RETREAT SCHEDULE (tentative)
Praise and Worship Music provided by Women at the Well
FRIDAY, JULY 13
3:00 PM Registration
4:45 PM Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Homily One
Father Philip Scott, FJ
6:00 PM Dinner - Welcome - Introduction
7:15 PM Talk One: The Holy Duet: Mary and the Holy Spirit and the Glorious Age to Come
Johnnette Benkovic
8:30 PM Fellowship in Lower McShain - Nocturnal Adoration in Chapels
SATURDAY, JULY 14
Young Women of Grace Retreat in Family Life Center 9am-8pm
8:00 AM Breakfast - Announcements
9:00 AM Talk Two: Mary and the Holy Spirit: Smiting the Head of the Serpent
Kathleen Beckman
10:15 AM Talk Three: Embracing the Holy Duet on the Battlefield of Life
Thomas K. Sullivan
(Note: Confessions will be available beginning at 10:30 AM – Locations TBD)
11:15 AM Confession - Prayer - Reflection - Fellowship in Lower McShain
12:00 PM LUNCH
1:00 PM Time for Personal Reflection and Fellowship in Lower McShain
2:00 PM Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Homily Two
Father Philip Scott, FJ
3:30 PM Chaplet of Divine Mercy
4:00 PM Talk Four: Mary and the Holy Spirit: The Holy Duet and Conversion
Jack Williams
5:00 PM Facilitator Training – Prayer – Reflection - Fellowship
6:00 PM DINNER
7:15 PM Talk Five: Mary and the Holy Spirit: The Holy Duet and Healing
Father Philip Scott, FJ
8:30 PM Healing Service: Embraced by the Holy Duet: Receiving the Gift of New Life
Johnnette Benkovic
10:00 PM Social in Lower McShain - Nocturnal Adoration
SUNDAY, JULY 15
8:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM Talk Six: The Holy Duet and You: Changing Lives, Healing Hearts, and Saving Souls
10:15 AM Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Homily Three
Father Philip Scott, FJ
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610-644-0400
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Event Speakers
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Kathleen Beckman
For twenty-five years, and in thirteen countries, Kathleen Beckman has served in the Church’s ministry of evangelization through Catholic radio and television, writing and speaking. Sophia Institute Press has published her last four books including the bestseller, “A Family Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Strategies for Deliverance and Healing”. At the invitation of clergy, Kathleen has served in the Church’s ministry of exorcism and deliverance for sixteen years. She was on faculty for the Pope Leo XIII Institute for six years, completed the Association of International Exorcists Course at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum University in 2017, serves as the diocesan administrator of exorcism and deliverance ministry. A member of the exorcist’s team, she accompanies persons seeking liberation from evil spirits. In 2013, with encouragement of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Clergy, she co-founded the Foundation of Prayer for Priests, an apostolate of intercession and sacrifice for the holiness and protection of priests. All are invited to spiritually adopt priests at www.foundationforpriests.org.
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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. -
Fr. Philip Scott, FJ
Fr. Philip Scott is the Founder of Family of Jesus, a family of priests, brothers and sisters dedicated to Christ and His Church, bound by private vows of obedience, chastity, poverty and martyrdom, praying to be healed and formed into a family by the Divine Family (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) in order to live out in a prophetic manner our baptismal calling to follow Jesus Christ and to be his instruments of healing for families, including not only the individual domestic family, but also the broader family of the Church and of society.
They were founded by Father Philip Scott in 1998 under the auspices of Bishop Robert Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg. They have been missionaries in Peru, since January 10, 2003. -
Thomas K Sullivan
At the young age of 17, Thomas K Sullivan began a career serving in the United States Military (US Navy and Coast Guard). During his 12 years of service, Tom spent 5 of those years as a Company Commander in the US Navy, training young men and women in the ways of military life, and was awarded the designation as a "Master Training Specialist". Little did he know God was preparing him for a training field much bigger than he could imagine.
At the age of 30, Tom returned to the Catholic Faith and found his true mission in life. Using the same determination, skills and abilities that made him a successful and highly decorated military leader, Tom has spent the past 26 years in Catholic education, apologetics and evangelization.
In 1992 following a disabling injury which brought his military career to an end, Tom began working with St, Joseph Communications in California. During this time, he developed evangelization and educational materials for both national an international audiences. Tom also conceived and developed the Scott and Kimberly Hahn Adult Education on Video program now in thousands of homes and parishes. Tom is a founding member of the National Catholic Family Conference held each year in California and was the 1996 recipient of the annual Fulton J. Sheen award for his work in evangelization.
In 1998, Tom formed a youth outreach organization featuring the Catholic Rock Music group, Sons of Thunder Outreach. The group went on to record a highly requested CD "Fatherland", a Catholic rock music CD with lyrics telling the story of salvation history, conversion, the sacraments and more.
In 2001, Tom joined the staff of Living His Life Abundantly International. He serves as the Director of Operations, Director of Information Technology and Network Administrator as well as Senior radio engineer.
Tom is also the producer of the daily Television program "Women of Grace" on the EWTN Global Catholic Television Network.
In addition, Tom has extensive experience teaching parish adult education and youth confirmation preparation. He speaks at conferences and events, nationally and internationally, on the many topics concerning the Catholic Faith.
Tom is the author of the book "Called to Knighthood: The Sacrament of Confirmation in the Kingdom Family of God" published by Simon Peter Press and co-author with Johnnette Benkovic of the book "The Rosary: Your Weapon for Spiritual Warfare" published by Servant Press.
He has been a radio guest on The Abundant Life, Women of Grace LIVE, Faith and Family Radio programs, as well as Seize the Day with Gus Lloyd on Sirius Satellite radio.
He has also been a television guest on EWTN's Life on the Rock, Bookmark with Doug Keck, The Abundant Life, and over a dozen Women of Grace television programs.
?Tom is the creator and designer of the one-of-a-kind Warrior's Rosary that has been distributed all over the world since 2014.
He is currently working on an expanded book on the Sacrament of Confirmation titled “Warriors for the Kingdom.” He continues to spend much of his free time speaking about the Kingdom of God, the Rosary, and the importance of the sacraments and their relationship to Spiritual Warfare here on the battlefield of life!
Tom is a devoted husband to his wife Carol and father of six children; Jeffrey, Tommy, Maria, Michael, Joshua and Gabriel. He is also the proud Grandfather of his 15 grandchildren (currently). -
Jack Williams
Jack Williams is the General Manager of EWTN Radio. After a radical conversion in 1981 Jack traveled college campuses in the United States and Australia as part of a charismatic, evangelical campus outreach. He later spent a decade providing sports talk radio programming and live high school sports coverage in the Des Moines, IA market. After entering the Catholic Church in 2002, Jack began doing an hour long Catholic program every weekday on a local evangelical radio station. He was later a member of the team that transformed that very station into a Catholic Radio Station. After spending time at the local EWTN radio affiliate in Birmingham, AL, Jack joined EWTN in 2014. EWTN Radio programming can be heard on over 350 affiliated stations in the United States, online at ewtn.com, on the ewtn app, on Sirius/XM channel 130 and on a myriad of streaming and social media platforms. In addition to his responsibilities as General Manager, Jack can be heard Monday through Friday at 3pm ET on EWTN Open Line.
