From: montana@mizar.usc.edu (Robert Montana)
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Subject: Focus on the Catholic Family Conference, Nov 13-15
Date: 5 Oct 1992 13:43:54 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Second Annual 'Focus on the Catholic Family' Conference
November 13-15 at St. Cyprian's, Long Beach, Calif.


Friday, November 13, 1992
  4:00 pm           Registration/Book Ministry/Refreshments
  6:30 pm           Opening Mass                              Bishop Carl Fisher, S.S.J.
  7:45 pm           'The Splendor of the Catholic Church'     Scott Hahn

Saturday, November 14, 1992
  7:30 am           Morning Mass                              Fr. Martin Slaughter
  9:00 am           'Ancient Wisdom for Modern Families'      Steve Wood
 Breakout Session   'Face Up to the Facts: A Talk with        Scott Hahn
 (9:30 am)           Young Adults'
 10:30 am           'Dealing with Teen Sexuality: The Need    Barbara McGuigan
                     to be Chaste'
 12:00 noon         Lunch Break
  1:30 pm           'The Family Under Attack: The Sacraments  Betty Brennan
                     as Defense'
  3:00 pm           'Catechizing/Evangelizing the Family'     Kimberly Hahn
  5:00 pm           Anticipated Sunday Mass
  7:00 pm           'The Bible and the Church: Both or        Scott Hahn
                     Neither'
  8:30 pm           'Living in Difficult Marriages'           Steve Wood

 Sunday, November 15, 1992
 Mass Schedule: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 and 12:00 noon
  1:30 pm           'Leading a Celibate Life: Widowed,        Fr. Leo Celano, O.Praem.
                     Single and Divorced'
  3:00 pm           'The Child Within: Healing Our            Betty Brennan
                     Brokenness'
  4:30 pm           'The Catholic Challenge: Raising a        Barbara McGuigan
                     Prolife Family In a Pro-Choice World'
  6:00 pm           Conclusion of Seminar


Speaker profiles:

Scott Hahn  ...the dynamic ex-Protestant minster who converted to
            Catholicism and is bringing literlly thousands of luke-
            warm Catholics back to active participation in the Faith.

Steve Wood  ... a former classmate of Scott Hahn's in the seminary, also
            a former minister, he now directs the Florida Life Center
            and speaks to audiences around the country about his conversion.

Barbara McGuigan  ...the mother of four children, McGuigan is the California
                  Education Director of Human Life International and an
                  acknowledged expert on teaching chastity and abstinence to
                  teenagers.

Kimberly Hahn  ...a theologian and mother whose accidental discovery of the
               truth about contraception helped lead her to the Catholic
               Church, is popular speaker and lecturer around the country.

Fr. Leo Celano ...a member of the Norbertine Order at St. Michael's Abbey
               in El Toro, Calif., Fr. Celano is a popular speaker on prolife
               and spiritual issues.

Betty Brennan  ...once deeply involved in satanic occultism, Brennan now
               dazzles audiences with her personal account of how the power
               of the sacraments brought her back to Christ and thereby saved
               her soul.

For more information contact:
   St. Joseph Communications
   P.O. Box 720
   West Covina, CA  91793


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