Faith summits scheduled

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PARK CITY – St. Mary of the Assumption Parish is offering three summer summits to encourage people to strengthen their Catholic faith and parish life. Each summit is geared toward a specific audience, and each will have a keynote speaker.

The main purpose of the summits is to foster more of a community at St. Mary’s, said Anthony Kewett, the parish’s director of evangelization. During the pandemic, the parish had to put many of its normally scheduled activities aside, and “we want to come back and restart the ministries and to foster community in a deeper sense,” he said.

Fr. Joshua Neu will be the guest speaker for the men’s summit, scheduled for July 15. His topic will be “Christ the Victor, conqueror of sin and death, liberator of men, king on the cross.”

Fr. Neu, director of spiritual formation for Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, “will show the men how Christ’s death is the very thing his teaching is leading to – that, in his Passion, Jesus is in the driver’s seat,” Kewett said. He added that he expects that men who attend the summit will find tools to help them strengthen their Catholic faith.

The summits also will offer opportunities for people to join or rejoin the parish’s various ministries, as well as to learn about upcoming events and ongoing volunteer opportunities, or simply to reconnect with others.

The second summer summit, for women, is scheduled for Aug. 19. The speaker will be Kendra Tierney, a renowned Catholic author, wife and mother. She will speak on “Catholics all year long – liturgical living for real life,” and share how women can incorporate Catholic practices into their own life and their family’s life throughout the Church year.

The third summit will be for all parishioners, and is scheduled for Sept. 16.

All St. Mary of the Assumption parishioners are invited to the summits.

“Fostering a sense of community in a very strong way is very important and hopefully we will do that through these summits,” Kewett said.

There will be no cost to attend the summits. Each will open with the opportunity for the Sacrament of Reconciliation and will offer social time, light refreshments, information about parish ministries and, most of all, an opportunity to renew the Catholic faith.