Calling All Anglophiles

Plan to join us at Our Lady of the Rosary on Saturday, January 21 for Now and in England. This will be an excellent day conference with English authors and EWTN personalities Joseph Pearce and Joanna Bogle.

I'll be joining them with a packed program. Deacon Richard Ballard will be emcee and organizer. We are planning a good number of shorter talks covering a whole range of topics. There will be a chance to meet the authors and learn not only about English Catholicism in the past, but what is going on there now with the threat to Christianity by immigration and Islam as well as the positive signs with the Anglican Ordinariate, the result of the recent papal visit and other signs of the 'Second Spring' of the Church in the UK.

The cost of the conference is just $25.00, and this includes lunch. For advance registration be in touch with the parish office--call 864 422 1648. Here's the program as it stands so far:

8:30 - Registration and Refreshments

9:00 - Deacon Ballard - Opening Comments - Why English Catholicism is Important for Americans Today

9:15 - Fr Longenecker - Merry Ole' England - Life in the English Middle Ages

9:45 - Joanna Bogle - Feasts and Seasons - How to Celebrate the Catholic Faith English Style

10:30 - Break

10:45 - Joseph Pearce - The Jolly Prophet - The Importance of G.K.Chesterton Today

11:30 - Fr Longenecker - C.S.Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkien - Conversion and Catholicism

12:00 - Lunch - Book Signings

12:45 - Holy Rosary Before the Image of Our Lady of Walsingham

1:15 - Joseph Pearce - Searching for Shakespeare - Was Shakespeare Catholic?

2:00 - Break

2:15 - Joanna Bogle - Catholicism in Tension - The Catholic Church in Britain Today

3:00 - Plenary Session - Questions

3:15 - Deacon Ballard - Closing Comments

3:30 - Departure

4:00 - Confessions, Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction

5:15 - Parish Vigil Mass

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