“Bloom Where You Are Planted”
Saturday, February 24, 2024
St. Thomas the Apostle in Glen Mills, PA
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Speakers
Fr. Patrick J. Kifolo, OSFS
Fr. Patrick J. Kifolo, OSFS is part of the Campus Ministry team at Salesianum School. He is from Lewisburg, PA, where the Oblates were invited to minister at his home parish of Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in 1987. He studied art education at Millersville University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Education in 1995. He entered formation with the Oblates in 1999. He has a Master of Divinity from Washington Theological Union and was ordained a priest on January 20, 2007. As an Oblate, Fr. Patrick has served in Catholic education for nearly seventeen years. He served as the Director of Campus Ministry at Salesianum School for seven years, in the same role at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School for seven years, and is in his second year back at Salesianum School happy to be working with some of his former students. He also helps serve the Oblates as part of the vocations team.
Heather Kinney
Topic: "Revisit Your Roots - Bloom Where You Are Planted"
Salesian wisdom grounds us well to live where we are. In reflecting on where we are, we also ought to reflect on what has brought us to where we are. Who and what have brought you here to this moment of your life as a partner, parent, colleague, or friend? And how is this moment, this arc, of your life inviting you to grow? What lessons can we all learn from St. Francis de Sales to live today well?
Heather Kinney, who grew up in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, has been a friend of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales for more than twenty years. She first got to know the Oblates working as an office assistant at the Oblate seminary while a student at Washington Theological Union in Washington, DC. Since then, Heather has served in various parish and campus ministries around the United States. She currently serves as Associate Director of Formation for Academics and Pastoral Placements at the seminary of the Paulist Fathers in Washington, DC.
