Our 2019 Lenten Lecture series focuses on our personal "Metanoia" regarding a transformative change of heart and spiritual conversion that includes repentance. During Lent, we encounter the world, ourselves and our God through this lens. Let us accompany each other on this Lenten journey of faith. View the flier.

Tuesday evening, 7pm to 8pm, in the North Conference Room

March 26: Rev. Luke Melcher
“The Transformative Power of the Mass:
The Source and Summit of our Faith"

Rev. Luke Melcher is a priest of the Diocese of Alexandria in Louisiana. After studying at the Higher Institute of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and St. Joseph Seminary College in Louisiana, he completed a bachelor of arts in Philosophy. Fr. Melcher obtained a Masters of Divinity at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans and was ordained a priest in 2005. In 2011, he was sent to Rome to study at the Pontifical Institute of Liturgy, Ateneo Sant’Anselmo, where he obtained a licentiate in Sacred Liturgy. He currently is a candidate for the doctorate in Sacred Liturgy at the same institution.

In 2015, the Vatican’s Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments granted Fr. Melcher the nihil obstat ad personam and appointed him to the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) as the Director of Textual Resources to the ICEL Secretariat, the agency responsible for the translations of liturgical books from Latin to English. Fr. Melcher has studied French, Italian, German, Latin, and Greek. On weekends, he assists with Masses at St. Augustine’s at 15th and U, where he is in residence.