Spirituality Seminar Series
Church of St. Joseph
The December 14th, 2018 session will feature the showing of Pope Francis’s DVD: A Man Of His Word. The film is intended to be a personal journey with Pope Francis. Discussion will be facilitated by Fr. Kevin Hanlon MM
Father Kevin J. Hanlon was born in 1956 in Rochester, NY, and comes from a family of eight girls and four boys. He graduated in 1979 from Catholic University in Washington, DC. In 1982, he entered the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, and during his seminary time spent three years in Japan as a missionary in training. He was ordained at Maryknoll in 1989. He returned to work in Japan, where he has spent a total of seventeen years in the Tokyo, Kyoto, and Sapporo Dioceses. Along the way, he earned a Doctorate in Mission Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and taught Introduction to Sacred Scripture at Notre Dame Women's College in Kyoto.
Fr. Hanlon returned to the U.S. in 2005 to serve as a mission educator and promoter, during which time he spent two years as an advisor to the USCCB Committee for World Missions. He later worked as vocations director, and since 2013, works on the Cause for Sainthood for Fr. Thomas Frederick Price and Bishop James A. Walsh, Cofounders of Maryknoll. In 2015, he was appointed the U.S. Superior of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, and lives at their headquarters in Ossining, NY.
Please mark your calendar, below are the dates for future seminars for the 2018/19 season:
March 8, 2019 Fr. Tim Kilkelly MM
April 12, 2019 Sr. Nancy Erts OP
May 10, 2019 Fr. John Lagiovane
June 14, 2019 Fr. Jude Aguwa
The seminar will begin after the 9:00 AM Mass in the Parish Hall with a continental breakfast, the presentation followed by lunch.
Pre-registration is helpful in planning for each session, in order to provide for the appropriate number of lunches. The cost for the session is $12. Please call the Parish Office at 914-232-2910 to register.