March '07 First Friday - Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity

We are pleased to have Fr. Daniel Chowning as our celebrant and speaker at the March First Friday gathering. Fr. Chowning is the Prior as well as Novice Master for the Eastern Province (Province of the Immaculate Heartof Mary) of the Discalced Carmelites ("OCD"). Father Chowning has been a Carmelite for 28 years and is currently based at St. Florian's Parish in Milwaukee. He did his post-graduate studies in Spain, is a member of the Institute of Carmelite Studies and is a frequent lecturer in both the U.S.and Europe on Carmelite spirituality. Father Chowning will discuss the spirituality expressed in the life and writings of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, a Carmelite nun of the late 19th and early 20th centuries whom Pope John Paul II put on a fast track for canonization.