SJE Men's Discipleship • Live4More
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March Men's Night, Monday August 5, 2024, Holy — "Expressions of Prayer"
March Men's Night, Tuesday April 30, 2024 — "Living the Eucharistic Life"
March Men's Breakfast, Saturday Mar 7th 2020 — "Sacrament of Holy Orders – WHAT’S UP WITH THAT: A Deacon's VIEW" A fun, enlightenting and delicious morning featuring our parish's neighbor Deacon Tom Stauffacher of Ascension Church.
2020 Men's Retreat, Jan 24-26 — Our Lady of Florida Spiritual Center
Sorry we missed you at Our Lady of Florida Spiritual Center for the retreat “Eucharist: Blessed & Broken ~ Shared & Sent“. Although my
brothers from St John's were not there, my brothers from Ascension and a number of other parishes shared together a remarkable experience.
It is a blessed place to find time for you and God; to be renewed, healed, strengthened, loved and challenged.
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Men's Night Dec 02, 2019 — Adventure Catholic with speakers Alan Migliorato & Darryl Dziedzic Men's Annual Liv4More Conference September 28, 2019 — with Holy Name of Jesus, Indialantic, speakers Fr Ben Lehnertz, Fr Blake Britton, and Fr Scott Circe. Men's Night June 17, 2019 — speaker Deacon Mike McElwee
Rise Up Catholic Men's Conference March 23, 2019 – speakers Justin Fatica and Fr. Benjamin Lehnertz
Men's Night January 14, 2019 – speaker Mr Jeffery Njus Mens Saturday Breakfast September 29, 2018 — speaker Fr Scott Circe.
The SJE Men's Breakfast in Holy Cross Hall was well attended, with great food, good fellowship and discussion and a super presentation by Fr Scott Circe, Pastor of Holy Name of Jesus.
Men's Night June 25, 2018 — 'Word on Fire' Video Presentation by Bishop Robert Barron, Having a
"Personal Relationship" with Jesus SJE Inaugural Event - Men's Conference April 21, 2018 — speakers Bill Gent and Fr Ben Berlinti.
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Our August Men's Night featured Fr Benjamin Lehnertz, pastor of St Joseph in Orlando. He spoke on "Expressions of Prayer" and how we might enhance our Prayer time and Spiritual Life. He gave us a formula for prayer with; "Acknowledge, Relate, Receive, Respond". So in all things, God wants us to recognize our needs, ask, open ourselves to receive and respond in kind to our loving Father, every day. Thank you Fr Benjamin for your powerful call to action to fill that void we often neglect.
Also want to thank Genna Pizza for their support and contributions to our parish community. It was awesome! And deserving of a plug...Give them a try. Owned and managed by parishioners of St John the Evangelist.
It was a great evening for first time back since 2020. Fr Zack, Parochial Vicar at Ascension Church and an excellent speaker, gave us the most compelling explaination of our topic, "Living the Eucharistic Life":
what living the Eucharist is;
how and why we should direct our inner selves to demostrate an attitude of thanks toward God for all the blessings and all the trials he has bestowed on us;
how we can understand the sacrifice of the Mass better in directing the Love we receive back toward Him as He poured his Love out to us;
avoiding sinful choices by recognizing Gods creation in everything for what He created it to be;
and finally, seeing our place in God's plan as being one of joy, appreciation of our world, and to love one another as God loves us.
Deacon Tom shared a bit about what the calling and ministry of a deacon is about and how that same calling and ministry is what we are called toward exercising in our own lives. He shared and compared, sometimes in a quite humorous way, how we all share in the task of discipleship and service, whether Bishop, Priest, Deacon or Lay Person. He broke our understanding down to Vocation, Temperment, Holiness, Sacrament, Priorities, and Life Style. Everyone seemed to go having learned something new and was filled with interest which inspired sharing with the other brothers in attendance. If you missed this, so sorry. It was a great morning.
What a remarkable experience I had. Perhaps next time we can get a dozen and a half men together like Ascension did. The next annual Men's retreat for St John's is scheduled for January 29-31, 2021. There are also other opportunities to take part at OLOF. They offer a number of different types of retreats; men's, women's, couples, silent, scripture, charismatic, healing, centered prayer, and more. For more information you can visit their website at 
We invite all generations of men to this presentation from grandsons through grandfathers. We particularly encourage those of you with teenage families to come together as father-son to lead like the Shepherd. Click icon to visit 
The topic was: Present Day Discipleship. The term for the day was 'Intentional Discipleship', a fantastic descriptor for our calling
to be witnesses, evangelizers, and followers of our Lord Jesus Christ. We heard we were also called to keep renewing ourselves in faithfulness to maintain our ability
to continue in our spiritual walk thus enabling us to be the evangelizers and disciples we are meant to be.
Thank You, Fr Scott!
The evening was centered around a video presenting an example for us in having a personal relationship with Christ. Referencing the mystical prayers of St. Catherine of Siena, Bishop Robert Barron reminds us that "thou" is meant to be a more familiar and intimate form of the second person pronoun, "you". So, it is with this affection we are to address our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. After all, the bishop explains, sharing a personal relationship with God is the awesome distinction of biblical religion and the real purpose of evangelization.
What a fantastic men's conference for first time out! We had over 130 men from 5 different parishes, fantastic presentations, good food and great fellowship. Thanks to Bill Gent and Fr Ben for their talks. Then at the mass we witnessed Doug profess and join our faith receiving confirmation and first Holy Communion. And, we had the marriage of Patrick and his wife convalidated with their daughters present. It was truly a unique experience.