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Beloved: Diocesan Women's Conference Draws over 100
By PETER MARTIN
This year’s Beloved Women’s Conference, held on Saturday, September 14, at the Alverna Center in Winona, was an incredible success!
The weekend began with a pre-conference Holy Hour of Adoration and social Friday evening, including entertainment by Immaculate Jazz (a band made up of our very own IHM seminarians).
On Saturday, Crystalina Evert inspired and encouraged the more than 100 women present to open their hearts wide to the Holy Spirit, to ask themselves what is keeping them from becoming the women God made them to be, and to give God full permission to free them from all shackles of sin and anxiety!
Mass with Bishop Robert Barron, adoration and reconciliation were all central to the day, as each woman present allowed herself to bask in the gifts of the Holy Spirit she had already received.
At the conference, the ladies were also able to venerate a first class relic of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and a relic of the True Cross (fitting, as the feast of the day was the Exaltation of the Holy Cross)!
Sr. Mary Micaela Hoffman, RSM, rounded out the day by emphasizing the important role of the Holy Spirit in guiding our lives in Christ. Women left the Beloved conference thanking the team and speakers and bearing witness to the healing and grace this time brought to them!
Peter Martin is the Director of Life, Marriage and Family for the Diocese of Winona-Rochester
