LINCOLN (SNR) – Magnificat of Lincoln will host a prayer meal Feb. 8 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at Hillcrest Country Club, 9401 “O” St.
The speaker will be Father Justin Wylie, rector of the Cathedral of the Risen Christ.
Father Wylie is a native of South Africa. Before becoming a priest, he had a legal career in which he practiced as a trial attorney, an assistant DA and a Supreme Court Judge’s clerk. He also served in the Office of the Prosecutor in the United Nations Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, the Netherlands.
After his legal career in South Africa, Father Wylie received his priestly formation in Rome and was ordained a priest in 2009. In his home diocese of Johannesburg, he served as a pastor in both rural outstations and mid-size town parishes. He also completed a degree in canon law in Rome and, among other assignments, worked four years as an attaché (negotiator) of the Holy See at the Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations in New York, and served the traditional community at Holy Innocents Church in the Archdiocese. Since 2017, Father Wylie has served in the Diocese of Lincoln.
Pre-paid registrations are required to attend. Mail a check for $25 (students, $10) payable to Magnificat by Feb. 1 to Tina Colgan, 521 N. 56th St., Lincoln, NE 68504. With questions, contact coordinator Rhonda Litt at 402-489-3819 or text 402-525-6396.
Magnificat is a Ministry to Catholic women; a private association of the faithful within the Catholic Church under the jurisdiction of the Lincoln Diocese. Women of other Christian faiths are invited to share the prayer meal.
The primary purpose of Magnificat is to help Christian women become more open to the Holy Spirit through a deeper commitment of their lives to Jesus as Lord and to impart the Holy Spirit to one another by their love, service and sharing the good news of salvation. It started in 1981 in New Orleans and has become an international ministry with chapters in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Malta, Poland and Africa.
Magnificat of Lincoln, the Morningstar Chapter, held its first prayer meal in 1996. For more information visit lincolndiocese.org/diocese/lay-organizations/magnificat.
