TOPICS - 2011 CONFERENCE
Sunday Evening
A deli style dinner will be available in the coffee room for arrivals from 5pm to 8pm. At 8 pm there will be a Welcoming Conference at the Conference Center followed by a Travelers Mass in the Chapel.
Monday
Monday AM Bishop Paprocki will share his observations and report on the Baltimore Meeting of Bishops.
Fr Cliff’s conferences will deal with the foundations of the spiritual life as
presented to us by the masters, namely the Fathers of the Church. The first
conference will discuss the life of prayer according to the thought of St
Augustine. Subsequent conferences will discuss what the Fathers have to say
about discerning the work of the Holy Spirit, the evil spirit, and our own human
spirit. Long before St Ignatias redacted his rules for the discernment of
spirits, early Christian writers had set down rules for discernment. These
conferences go to the sources of Western and Byzantine spiritual tradition to
aid us our own work of discernment, spiritual direction, and deliverance.
Tuesday
Ralph Martin is the president of Renewal Ministries, an
organization devoted to Catholic renewal and evangelization. He will
discuss how the Evil One infiltrates the holy and how we can discern his work
and presence.
Wednesday,Thursday and Friday Morning
Dr. Richard Gallagher will present an in depth analysis on the ways to detect the various types of mental illness from the presence of evil.
Msgr. John Esseff, exorcist from Scranton, PA will dialogue with Dr. Gallagher about how priests as exorcists discern when evil masks as mental illness