6:30pm - 8:30pm
Fr. Bernard Murphy, CFR, is the former Community Servant (Superior) of the Community of Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, a new Franciscan community established in 1987 under the patronage of the late John Cardinal O’Connor, Archbishop of New York. Fr. Bernard has been actively involved in conducting parish missions and youth retreats extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, Africa, and the Far East. He is a regular Retreat Master for priests and communities of Religious Sisters, most particularly Saint Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. He presently resides in his community’s friary, St. Fidelis Friary, Canning Town, London, England. Join us as he speaks on the fundamental idea of the entire Bible is that God wishes to establish a covenant relationship with all humankind. From Genesis to Revelation the image of marriage is presented as the fundamental symbol of this covenant. God longs to be in a “spousal dynamic” of love with His people. The confusion and distortions concerning marriage in our present age are more than a human dilemma—it is a Crisis of Faith. This confusion strikes at the very core of God’s desire for humanity—a binding, exclusive, generative relationship of love WITH HIM! Rediscovering the mystery of marriage is essential for encountering and appreciating this spousal dynamic as a source of genuine sanctity.
