September Virtual Workshop:
What the Church Really Teaches About Marital Intimacy
Presented by: Rev. Allen Hoffa, M.Div.
We are so blessed to have Father Hoffa, Pastor of Holy Guardian Angels Parish in Reading, PA, to present our workshop for September. Father Hoffa will discuss the teachings of the Catholic Church when it comes to marital intimacy. His teaching will include:
- What is marital intimacy and what is it not
- The understanding of marital intimacy both in the Church’s teaching as well as in secular society
- What the Church teaches vs. what we THINK She teaches regarding marital intimacy
- The misrepresentation of our understanding of “the marital debt”
- The true Catholic interpretation of Eph 5:21-33 regarding the submissiveness of wives to their husbands
- The true Catholic interpretation of 1 Cor 7:1-5 regarding the reciprocal self-giving/self-donation in marriage and how it mirrors Christ’s self-giving of Himself to His Bride, the Church
- Questions & Answers
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Upcoming Workshop:
Prayer as Relationship with Father Jeremiah Shryrock, CFR
Fr. Jeremiah Myriam Shryock CFR, is from Barto, PA. He graduated from Kutztown University in Kutztown, PA in 2002 where he studied Philosophy and professional writing. In September 2002, he entered the Community of Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CFR) and was ordained a priest in 2011, by Cardinal Timothy Dolan in St. Patricks’ Cathedral in New York City. In 2014, he completed studies in spiritual direction at Our Lady of Divine Providence School of spiritual
direction in Clearwater, FL. Throughout his time as a Franciscan he has participated in his community’s charism of hands-on work with the poor and preaching. He lived for 3 years as a hermit at the Monastery of Bethlehem in Livingston Manor, NY and now currently lives at San Juan Diego Friary in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he preaches retreats, is a spiritual director and conducts parish missions on either the spiritual life or Mary. He is the author of Amid Passing Things: Life, Prayer, and Relationship with God (2019), Mary and the Interior Life (2023), and Let Him Lead: An Invitation to Let Jesus Guide Your Heart and Your Life (2025).
For more information, visit his website at: fatherjeremiah.com
Follow him on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/father_jeremiah/
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