The Oblate meeting for February will be on the 20th and not the 21st. Oblates are encouraged to attend one Day of Reflection or make a retreat once a year. Belmont Abbey College will be having a Day of Reflection February 20th starting 10:00 Am and ending at 2:00. The Oblates will gather after the College activities end at the Gallaghar Room so make sure you are caught up on your readings. Below is the details of the Day of Reflection:
Come “prepare the way of the Lord” in your heart with our very special Lenten Day of Reflection, beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 20 in the Haid Theatre at Belmont Abbey College. Monsignor Stuart Swetland and Father Mark Lawlor will lead our reflection.
Father Lawlor, who was an engineer before embracing his vocation as a priest, is the pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Church in Charlotte. He will be speaking in the morning (10:00-10:45 a.m.), on the engineered-to-inspire topic, “Lent: Learning, Enduring, Nurturing, Trusting.”
Monsignor Swetland, Director of Homiletics and Pre-Theology at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, is a Rhodes Scholar who was received into the Catholic Church while he was studying at Oxford. He has made numerous appearances on EWTN. Monsignor Swetland will speak in the afternoon (1:00-1:45 p.m.) on “Lessons from the Sunday Readings in Lent.”
Between the two talks, we invite you to join the monks of Belmont Abbey for Mass in the Abbey Basilica (beginning at 11 a.m.). Afterwards, please join your fellow reflection attendees for lunch in the ballroom of the Haid Theatre at noon.
Admission is just $30 per person. A delicious box lunch, a special premium gift that will richly bless your Lent, plus a $10 donation to the Chancellor’s Fund, are all included in the price. The purpose of the Chancellor’s Fund is to help Belmont Abbey College’s Chancellor, Abbot Placid Solari, O.S.B., safeguard and defend the Catholic and Benedictine identity of the College, so that “in all things, God may be glorified.” Funds are disbursed solely at the discretion of Abbot Placid. Our seating capacity is limited, so please register online to reserve your seat: CLICK HERE or call Jillian Maisano at 704.461.6869.
