MAY 2017
VOL. XXI, NO. 4
Brown said. “Thus we will consider the connection between an awareness of the presence of the divine in the human and the articulation of that awareness, which enables By Dan Heckel, OSUA (MSJ Staff) it to deepen and grow Associates and Sisters Day 2017 on Saturday, June 17, will challenge us to see how we meet Jesus among toward (w)holiness. This will provide us the people and ordinary events of the day. Father Ben Associate Pauline Goebel, with a renewed approach left, shares a smile with Sister Brown will lead the discussion on “Finding God in to what is a staple of Vivian Bowles on Associates Our Everyday Lives.” and Sisters Day on June 11, Christian faith and During its yearly reflection day in October 2016, 2016. tradition: the Sacramental the Associate Advisory Board was moved by Ursuline System.” Sister Ann McGrew’s “Everyday Epiphanies.” They Father Brown was taught by the Ursuline Sisters decided to pursue that as the theme for Associates of Mount Saint Joseph in elementary school while and Sisters Day, and the formation sessions for the growing up in Louisville. In 1973, he was ordained upcoming year. for the Archdiocese of Louisville and has had varied Father Brown offered this snippet of callings in service – pastor, vocations director and what he will discuss on June 17: youth minister. “Well He died and bore Himself In 1990, he was commissioned as an officer in deep in this earth; the Military Chaplain Corps. During his career in Glory, sing to the Lord. uniform, he served operational units in the Navy, Now all of creation gets up with Marine Corps and Coast Guard. He retired in 2009 Him in the morning; Father Ben with the rank of Commander. Glory, sing to the Lord!” After leaving military service in 2009, he served “This brief verse/response, composed within just a few years of the end of Vatican II (December 1965), is for five years in the combined role as chaplain and expressive of an incarnational theology, the conviction instructor in religious studies at St. Catharine College in Springfield, Ky. Since late 2013, he has served that in Christ, God entered completely into the human as chaplain in the Veterans Administration Medical condition,” Father Brown said. “It is this theology System, both as a resident in Hospice and Palliative which is fundamental to the reflection ‘Everyday Care, and as one who makes daily “house calls” Epiphanies’ offered by Sister Ann McGrew, the seed to home-based veterans in a 26-county region of from which has sprung the theme for the annual Kentucky. Associates and Sisters Day: ‘Finding God in Our In 2016, Father Brown was appointed by the Everyday Lives.’” Archbishop of Louisville as priest/administrator “Inspired by elements in the writings of Saint of Saints Ambrose and Ignatius parishes in Hardin Angela Merici, particularly her insight into the County, and appointed by the governor as chaplain of intimate connection between contemplation and the Kentucky Veterans action, our reflections, in Radcliff. discussions and Associates and Sisters Day is Saturday, June 17. Center He has a bachelor’s celebrations will Please join us! degree in philosophy, move us toward (See registration form on back) classical languages an incarnational Anyone who has yet to make his or her lifetime commitment spirituality,” Father Continued on page 2
“Finding God in our Everyday Lives” theme for Associates and Sisters Day
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