Walsingham Family Festival

SCHEDULE

• 9:30am – Matachines Dancers
• 10:00am – Solemn High Mass
  • Choirs of The Chapel of the Cross & St Alban’s
  • Preacher – Fr Matthew Rogers SSC
  • St Laurence Anglican Church, Southlake

• 11:30am – Lunch, Presentations & Children’s Catechesis
  • “The Theotokos as the Ark”
    The Very Rev. Chad Hatfield
    Retired President – St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary & Rector – All Saints Orthodox Church, Salina, KS
    “St Bernard of Clairvaux’s Four Homilies ‘In Praise of the Virgin Mary”
    Fr John Bayer OCist.
    Our Lady of Dallas Cistercian Abbey
• 2:00pm – Walsingham Water Blessing
• 2:30pm – Holy Rosary
  Children are encouraged to attend. Lunch, catechesis, and activites will be provided. Nursery is also available.

WHAT IS WALSINGHAM?

In 1061AD, the Virgin Mary appeared to a noblewoman in the town of Walsingham, England, and told her to build a house for the worship of Jesus Christ. For nearly a thousand years, Christians have made pilgrimage to this holy place, desiring to encounter the Lord who was born of Blessed Mary.

Known as “England’s Nazareth,” the modern Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham has a fascinating history and continues to be the site of many healings, miracles, conversions, and renewal.

THE FESTIVAL

All are invited to celebrate and learn more about Walsingham and Our Lady in this gathering of Christians who desire to grow in their love of Jesus