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Federal Association Spirituality and Defense of Faith Committees Reflect on Pope Leo XIV's Message to the Order of Malta

7/24/2025

On June 24, 2025, the Solemnity of the Birth of our Patron Saint John the Baptist, Pope Leo XIV received in audience His Eminence and Prince the Grand Master John Dunlap, the High Charges, and the Sovereign Council. The Defense of Faith and Spirituality Committees would like to highlight several ...

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Pittsburgh Holding Defense of Faith Forum

Devin Winklosky, KM
9/6/2025

This September, the Pittsburgh Region will host its third annual Defense of the Faith Forum, addressing the relevant topic: A Catholic Theology of Work in the Age of AI.  Speakers will review the Church’s ...

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Central North Carolina Holds Fourth of July Cookout for Local Family House

Silvia Rodriguez, DM
7/24/2025

Members, candidates and friends of the Central North Carolina Region got together for a cookout and served and visited with over 50 patients and caretakers residing at the SECU Family House in Winston-Salem, North Carolina ...

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DC Member Group Draws Core Lessons from Work with L’Arche

Diane Oakley, DM
7/24/2025

Over 40 million U.S. adults say they have no close friends. One in four people with intellectual disabilities don’t have a single friend. Research indicates that adults in the general population have 125 ...

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Pittsburgh Holding Defense of Faith Forum

Devin Winklosky, KM
9/6/2025

This September, the Pittsburgh Region will host its third annual Defense of the Faith Forum, addressing the relevant topic: A Catholic Theology of Work in the Age of AI.  Speakers will review the Church’s ...

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Central North Carolina Holds Fourth of July Cookout for Local Family House

Silvia Rodriguez, DM
7/24/2025

Members, candidates and friends of the Central North Carolina Region got together for a cookout and served and visited with over 50 patients and caretakers residing at the SECU Family House in Winston-Salem, North Carolina ...

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DC Member Group Draws Core Lessons from Work with L’Arche

Diane Oakley, DM
7/24/2025

Over 40 million U.S. adults say they have no close friends. One in four people with intellectual disabilities don’t have a single friend. Research indicates that adults in the general population have 125 ...

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Federal Association Spirituality and Defense of Faith Committees Reflect on Pope Leo XIV's Message to the Order of Malta

7/24/2025

On June 24, 2025, the Solemnity of the Birth of our Patron Saint John the Baptist, Pope Leo XIV received in audience His Eminence and Prince the Grand Master John Dunlap, the High Charges, and ...

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Hartford Celebrates Regional Mass

Dr. Tracy Brennan Graham, DM
7/3/2025

In June, Knights and Dames of the Hartford Region gathered in fellowship for Eucharistic Adoration, praying the Holy Rosary, and a monthly member mass at Our Lady of Mercy parish in Durham, Connecticut. Rev. Jan ...

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Holy Family Hospital Talk Theme Is Hope

Richard Landfield, Esq. KM
7/3/2025

Last March, the Holy Trinity Church Malta group hosted Ambassador Michèle Bowe, president of Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem Foundation and the Order of Malta’s Ambassador to Palestine, for a conversation about the ...

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Atlanta Gala Benefits Holy Family Hospital, Local Pregnancy Center

Jackie Bohling, DM
7/3/2025

In February, the Atlanta Region hosted its annual Life is Beautiful event, benefiting Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem Foundation (HFH) and Pregnancy Aid Clinic (PAC). Having put on events for the local PAC for 15 ...

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Syracuse Plans Summer of Service, Celebration, and Defense of Faith

Thomas J. Valenti, KM
6/26/2025

Greetings from the most northern outpost of the Federal Association, the Syracuse Region, just below the Arctic Circle. Although we endured a cold snowy winter, we also experienced a cold snowy and rainy spring. We ...

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HMEH, Grand Master Fra' John Dunlap Presents Grand Cross at Subpriory of Our Lady of Lourdes Annual Retreat

6/12/2025

The Subpriory of Our Lady of Lourdes, members in Obedience, gathered in May at the Malvern Retreat Center. For over fifteen years, members in Obedience have gathered in the last week of May for a ...

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Finish the Jubilee Year of Hope Strong

Federal Association Spirituality Committee
6/12/2025

The Jubilee Year of Hope began on December 24, 2024 and has offered incredible ways to grow in hope,  which is one of three theological virtues that anchor the Christian believer.  Perhaps you have passed ...

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Reflections from the Lourdes Pilgrimage

5/15/2025

Join the Knights and Dames of the Federal Association, USA of the Sovereign Order of Malta as they share their first impressions, spiritual reflections, and heartfelt testimonies from the 67th International Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary ...

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Lancaster Prays for Malades

Peter Scudner, GCM
5/15/2025

Members of the Lancaster Region met to pray for the Lourdes Pilgrimage and our malades. They met to say the Stations of the Cross near a local Lourdes grotto and prayed for a safe, spiritual ...

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Philadelphia Holds Lenten Morning of Reflection

Robert Macri, KM
5/2/2025

At the beginning of April, members of the Federal Association in Philadelphia came together for a special Lenten morning of prayer and reflection.

 

Fr. Matt Brody, Magistral Chaplain led this enriching morning of reflection, worship ...

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Nashville Holds Lenten Day of Recollection

Philip Mauro, KM
4/17/2025

At the beginning of this month, the Nashville Region held a Lenten Day of Recollection which was preached by Fr. Richard Mullins, conventual chaplain ad honorem. The day incuded mass, lauds, vespers, stations of the ...

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Lafayette Holds Family Lenten Reflection

Marla David, DMOb, and Paul David, KMOb
4/17/2025

For 2025, our Lafayette Region re-envisioned its annual Lenten Reflection to include children and grandchildren.  Some of our members and almost all our new candidates are mid-career with school-age children.  Other members and one candidate ...

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Hospitaller Conference Offers Global View

Jane Lanier, DM
4/17/2025

The International Hospitaller Conference that concluded earlier this month in Vienna, Austria was an opportunity to appreciate the worldwide scope of our Order in profound ways. Jane Lanier, Federal Association hospitaller, and Deacon Michael Stankewicz ...

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Oklahoma City Holds Annual Retreat

Thomas V. Leverso, Esq., KM
3/20/2025

From February 28 to March 2, I attended the Oklahoma City Region's annual three-day retreat, hosted at the Catholic Pastoral Center.

As joyously expected, our confreres provided a spectacular educational and inspirational retreat at ...

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Montgomery County Celebrates Anointing Mass

Barbara Ritschel, DM
3/20/2025

On March 15th, 220 people attended the 16th annual Lourdes Anointing Mass at Our Lady of Mercy, in Potomac, Maryland sponsored by the Montgomery County Region and joined by members from Washington DC, and ...

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Atlanta Celebrates Annual Lenten Retreat

Lynn Mullaney, DMOb
3/20/2025

Pope Francis declared “Pilgrims of Hope” as this year’s theme for the Jubilee, and we followed his message on our Atlanta Region Lenten Retreat from March 7 to 8.

Forty members of our Atlanta ...

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Jacksonville Celebrates Anointing Mass

Kevin English, KM
2/20/2025

The Jacksonville Region Anointing Mass was held on Saturday February 15 with hundreds attending. Our new Hospitaller, Dr. Pat Hutton welcomed the malades and their companions and thanked Mass Chair, Dr. Jeff Edwards for his ...

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