Mother Miriam to speak at Worcester Catholic Women's Conference

Mother Miriam of the Lamb of God, O.S.B, founder of the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel’s Hope, will speak at the Worcester Catholic Women’s Conference. Nov. 23. The title of her talk is, “The Holy Eucharist: the Passover Fulfilled.”
Mother Miriam grew up as Rosalind Moss. She was born and raised in a Jewish home in Brooklyn, New York.  After 15 years in a successful business career with corporations in New York and California, Rosalind experienced her initial conversion.  She changed her course, beginning a full-time evangelical ministry and earning a master’s degree in ministry from Talbot Theological Seminary.  
In 1990, after 13 years as an evangelical Protestant, Rosalind experienced a “holy shock” that started her on a five-year journey to the Catholic Church.  What precipitated the shock was the following quote by Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen: “There are not one hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church, but millions who hate what they mistakenly think the Catholic Church teaches.”  
This experience motivated Rosalind to “wade through those evangelical Christian misconceptions, especially that of the Eucharist.”  At Easter 1995, she entered the Catholic Church when she received the same “Messiah” in Communion that she had waited for as a child at each Passover.
Since then, she has traveled the world speaking and teaching through conferences, parish missions, women’s and family retreats, and all forms of media.  She was a full-time staff apologist with Catholic Answers and is a regular guest on the program “From the Heart” on Catholic Answers Live.  She has edited the book “Home at Last, 11 Who Found their Way to the Catholic Church.”  At EWTN, she is co-host of “Household of Faith” and “Now That We’re Catholic,” as well as host of “Reasons for Our Hope: A Bible Study on the Gospel of Luke.”  
Sister Rosalind and her religious community were relocated from St. Louis, Missouri, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2008.  On the feast of the nativity of the Blessed Mother, Sept. 8, 2011, Bishop Edward Slattery allowed her to be renamed Mother Miriam of the Lamb of God, and decreed that her community, the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel’s Hope, is a public association of the faithful. Mother Miriam is prioress of their first home in northeast Tulsa, known as the Priory of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
She says that her second “holy shock” was seeing the nuns’ habit shortened in the ’60s when she was in her 20s. Although she was Jewish at the time, she thought to herself, “Whoever these women are in long black and white things – I don’t think I knew the word ‘habit’ then – they’re in the world to affect the world for God, and, alas, the world has affected them.”  Now as a Catholic, she desires to “restore the hemline to the floor and the habit to the world as the magnificent sign to God that it is.”  She wants “to be out in the streets in our habits when people go to work and when children go to school, because I want them to think of God. It doesn’t matter to me what faith they are, or if they have no faith. Even if they are angry with God, to see a nun in a habit they have to think of God. Whatever they think of God, they have to think of God. This is what I long for with all my heart.”
Down to earth, no nonsense, colorful, inspirational, and passionate, Mother Miriam will be a featured speaker at the 2019 Worcester Catholic Women’s Conference: “The Eucharist: The Source and Summit of our Faith” at Assumption College, 500 Salisbury St., Worcester, on Nov. 23.  For more information and tickets visit www.worcestercatholicwomensconference.com.
The conference begins with registration at 7:30 a.m., followed by Benediction and a music program. Confessions will be available during the lunch break. Lunch is included. Bishop McManus will conclude the event with Mass in the college’s Chapel of the Holy Spirit at 4 p.m.
Featured speakers also include:
• Kathleen Beckman, president and co-founder of the Foundation of Prayer for Priests. The title of her talk is, “Building a Eucharistic Heart and Home.”
• Michelle Schmidt, who was active as a speaker for the Silent No More Awareness Campaign and worked with 40 Days for Life, will be presenting her talk, “Divine Life: The Profound Connection Between the Eucharist and Abortion.”
• Tim Francis, an evangelist and revert to the Catholic faith, who speaks about eucharistic miracles, will speak on “Signs From God: Miracles and Their Meaning.”
Tickets are $45 for adults and $25 for students, age 16-22, through Oct. 13. On Oct. 14, ticket prices increase to $60 for adults. Tickets can be purchased online or by sending a check payable to RCB Diocese of Worcester, to WCWC, 12 Maynard Road, Berlin, MA 01503.
For questions call 508-277-3969.