Thu, Mar 07
|Student Union Room 207-208
Lent Talk with Father Gabriel Gillen, O.P.
Time & Location
Mar 07, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Student Union Room 207-208, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Queens, NY 11367, USA
Guests
About the event
Join us in recieving to our first guest speaker Rev. Gabriel Gillen who will speak on Moving Jesus to the center of our lives. Please RSVP so we can get a head count for food.
Talk description
CCC 221 "God is love": God's very being is love. By sending his only Son and the Spirit of Love in the fullness of time, God has revealed his innermost secret: God himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and he has destined us to share in that exchange.
Father Gabriel's Bio
Father Gabriel Gillen was raised in Rockaway Beach, New York. Upon graduating from Stony Brook University he worked as a stockbroker on Wall Street. After making a Marian Pilgrimage to a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina he returned to the sacraments. Fr. Gabriel studied for the priesthood in Africa and Rome and ordained in Italy on June 24, 2000. He currently serves as a national chaplain with FOCUS and is based out of Washington DC.