Southern Nebraska Register
Magnificat of Lincoln will host an event March 11 at 9:30 a.m. at Hillcrest Country Club, 9401 “O” St., Lincoln.
The morning includes breakfast, prayer, praise and worship, and a speaker’s testimony and witness.
Speaker Sister Gabriel Perry will share her story. After graduating from high school in Nevada, Perry moved to Lincoln to attend the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) to study math education. She said she proudly identified as an agnostic then, but she was introduced to the Catholic faith and began learning more and taking steps toward the Truth.
After graduating from UNL, she began teaching in Lincoln and started attending RCIA. She was received into the Church in 2015. She then entered the Marian Sisters of the Diocese of Lincoln as a postulant in 2018.
Sister Gabriel is currently a junior Sister and teaches junior high religion and math at St. Michael School in Lincoln.
Magnificat is a ministry to Catholic women, a private association of the faithful within the Catholic Church under the jurisdiction of the Lincoln Diocese. It started as a prayer meal in 1981 in New Orleans and has become an international ministry. Magnificat of Lincoln, the Morningstar Chapter, was approved by Bishop Bruskewitz in 1996.
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.
To attend the March 11 event, send a $30 check (student price: $20) payable to Magnificat by March 6 to: Magnificat, c/o Tina Colgan, 521 N. 56th St., Lincoln, NE 68504. Pre-paid registration is required.
