CATECHISTS MISSION 2025
This is a catechist reunion invitation to have the opportunity to gather in person and meet your mentors and other fellow catechists who walked the online catechist formation journey with you. This gathering will be one of prayer, worship, and formation.This is also an invitation to any persona that would like to grow in faith this Lent.
Date: Saturday, March 22, 2025
Time: 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Location: Our Lady of the Assumption - 3175 Telegraph Road.,
Ventura, CA 93003
This is a Free event, Donations are welcome!
Lenten Hope: The Church as a Light to the Nations
This workshop will focus on how the Church, as described in Lumen Gentium, is the People of God, the Body of Christ, and the Temple of the Holy Spirit. Participants will reflect on these roles and how, in light of Lent, they can renew their hope through prayer, repentance, and acts of love.
The 2025 Jubilee is centered on the theme “Pilgrims of Hope.” During the Jubilee Year, the Pope invites every one of us to embark on a pilgrimage of hope, so that, "Through our witness, may hope spread to all those who anxiously seek it."
Prayer and Activities by Catechist Formation mentors' team
Worship by Andrew Heath.
Andrew Heath is the Director of Music at St. Kateri parish in Santa Clarita. He frequently leads music for events across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles as a singer, pianist, guitarist, and choral conductor.
Presenter: Dr. Stuart Squires, PH.D
Dr. Stuart Squires earned his Ph.D. in historical and systematic theology with a focus on St. Augustine from the Catholic University of America in 2012. His M.A. in theology is from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and his B.A. in comparative religious studies is from DePaul University. After graduating from DePaul, Dr. Squires joined the Peace Corps, and was sent to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania for two years. He has taught at DePaul University, Brescia University, and the University of St. Thomas. He has been published in many academic journals, including Annales Theologici, Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Augustinianum, The Heythrop Journal, Cistercian Studies Quarterly, Scottish Journal of Theology, and Augustiniana.
Dr. Squires has published two books: The Pelagian Controversy: An Introduction to the Enemies of Grace and the Conspiracy of Lost Souls (2019) and You Will Be Changed Into Me: The Fruits of the Eucharist (2024).
