Daily Devotions for Lent 2014 (The Living Gospel)
Sr. Theresa Rickard, O.P. is a Dominican Sister of Blauvelt, New York and president and executive director of RENEW International. She holds a doctor of ministry in preaching from Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri. Additionally, she earned a master of divinity at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and a master of arts in religion and religious education at Fordham University. An outgrowth of her early ministry in multicultural parishes in the South Bronx in New York City, Rickard has a keen appreciation for the blessings and challenges of parish life, a strong commitment to serving poorer parishes, and an understanding of the particular needs of the ethnically diverse Catholic Church.Since becoming executive director in 2007, she has led RENEW International's expansion into over forty dioceses in the United States, in parishes and on campuses, as well as into five developing countries. Under her watch, RENEW International launched several new and important pastoral processes focused on evangelization, faith formation, and spiritual renewal.