2025 Lenten Mission
March 9 – 11 | 7 PM | Church
Join us for all three nights or as many as you can!
Led by Former Major League baseball writer, evangelist, and best-selling Catholic author Kevin Wells
Former Major League baseball writer, evangelist, and best-selling Catholic author Kevin Wells
Get to know who will lead OLPH’s 2025 Lenten Mission
Former Major League baseball writer, evangelist, and best-selling Catholic author Kevin Wells will use the gift of Irish storytelling, zeal, and love for the Church, its poor, and Jesus Christ to encourage parishioners of OLPH to become shafts of light and Alleluias of hope for a society often caught up in the travail and secularism of modern times.
Kevin is the author of Priest and Beggar: The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz, The Priests We Need to Save the Church, Burst, and his most recent, The Hermit, The Priest Who Saved a Soul, a Marriage, and a Family. Kevin is an active evangelist, writer, and podcaster (One 2 One Podcast) who has presented at conferences and seminaries nationally and internationally. He lives in Maryland with his wife and children.
March 9 – 11 | 7 PM | Church
From Death’s Door to a Life of Holiness: A Miraculous Healing and the Eight Marks of Saintly Witness
Sunday | March 9 | 7 PM
—12:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Eucharistic Adoration
—7:00 PM | First Mission talk by Kevin
—Following the talk | Evening Prayer – Liturgy of the Hours 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Final hour of Adoration
Experience an extraordinary true story of hope and transformation as Kevin recounts his miraculous healing at the hands of a priest in a neuro ICU after a failed brain surgery. This life-and-death encounter propelled him onto a path of profound spiritual renewal. Drawing from the lives of the Church’s greatest witnesses, Kevin will unveil eight defining characteristics of holiness that anyone can embrace, igniting a renewed purpose in your own faith journey.
The Beggar Priest of Washington: Venerable Aloysius Schwartz and the Road to Sainthood
Monday | March 10 | 7 PM
—Following Daily Mass at 8 AM – 7:00 PM | Eucharistic Adoration
—7:00 PM | Second Mission talk by Kevin
—Following the talk | Sacrament of Reconciliation
—9:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Final hour of Adoration
Prepare to be inspired by the astonishing life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz—an American missionary on the fast track to sainthood. Part St. Damien of Molokai, part St. John of the Cross, part St. John Bosco, and part St. Thérèse of Lisieux, this Washington D.C. “Beggar and Poor-Man Priest” embodied Christ’s love for the destitute. Kevin will reveal how Venerable Schwartz’s tireless dedication and radical charity blaze a pathway for each of us to meet the world’s deep hunger for compassion and hope.
Embracing Victimhood: Living the Noble Call of Modern-Day Sanctity
Tuesday | March 11 | 7 PM
—Following Daily Mass at 8 AM – 7:00 PM | Eucharistic Adoration
—7:00 PM | Third Mission talk by Kevin
—Following the talk | Extended Adoration
—9:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Final hour of Adoration
What does it mean to be a “victim soul,” and how can you live it out in everyday life? In this eye-opening final talk, Kevin explores the profound mystery of “victimhood” not as passive suffering but as a powerful act of sacrificial love. With the riveting story of “The Hermit” as a guide, discover practical ways to enter into the hearts of those you encounter—carrying Christ’s presence to every soul. Leave with a vision of modern sanctity that challenges and elevates your walk of faith.
