About Holy Grounds

Holy Grounds is the winter counterpart to Theology on Tap. We meet at Chicory & Chives Cafe, 5800 S. Lewis Avenue (in the London Square Shopping Center). We invite a speaker to talk on an issue of faith to Young Adults. It happens every 2nd Tuesday of the month from November through March. The speaker starts at 8pm, but Chicory & Chives Cafe opens the doors for us at 7pm.

Expect the Holy Grounds schedule in late September or Early October. For now, enjoy Theology on Tap. If you have a topic you would like to hear at Holy Grounds, or if you would like to speak at Holy Grounds, please email CatholicYoungAdults@gmail.com

February 14th
Fr. Van Der Putten:

Father Angelo Van Der Putten was born in California on July 19th, 1972. He was ordained on June 22nd, 1996. Father Van Der Putten has 12 siblings, and 87 nephews and nieces. His youngest sister is a religious nun.

January 10th
Fr. Kerry Wakulich:

Fr. Kerry Wakulich was born and raised in Tulsa, OK. After serving our country in the Army, Fr. Kerry went to St. John Vianney Seminary in Denver. He was ordained in 2010. His first assignment was as Chaplin to Bishop Kelley High School and Associate Pastor at St. Thomas More. He is currently serving as Chaplin to Bishop Kelley and the TU Newman Center.

December 13th
Fr. Matt La Chance:

Fr. Matt La Chance will be speaking on Architecture and the Church. Fr. Matt has both an architecture and art history degree from Notre Dame. Fr. Matt currently serves the parishes in Cusing, Pawnee, and Drumright. Fr. Matt was also extremely instrumental in the recent Holy Family Cathedral remodeling project (rumor is...he actually picked up a paint brush to help with the project!).

November 8th
Mother Miriam of the Lamb of God:

Born and raised in a Jewish home, Rosalind Moss, in her adult years embraced Jesus as the Messiah of the Jewish people. Her initial conversion took her from a 15-year business career as a successful executive with corporations in New York and California to full-time Evangelical ministry, earning a master's degree in Ministry from Talbot Theological Seminary. A series of events in the summer of 1990 set her on a compelling course to find out if the Catholic Church is in fact the Church Christ established 2,000 years ago. After 18 years of Evangelical Protestantism, she entered the Catholic Church at Easter 1995.

Since that time she has traveled the world speaking and teaching through conferences, parish missions, women's and family retreats, and all forms of media. From July, 1999 to May, 2008, Rosalind, now Sister Rosalind, was a fulltime staff apologist with Catholic Answers and remains to this day a guest of the semi-monthly radio program, From the Heart on Catholic Answers Live. She is the editor of Home at Last, 11 Who found their Way to the Catholic Church, co-host of EWTN's Household of Faith and Now That We're Catholic!, host of Reasons for Our Hope: A Bible Study on the Gospel of Luke, and author of the Bible Study book by the same title.

On the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, August 22, 2008, Rosalind’s dream of many years to found a new religious community took root. Daughters of Mary/Mother of Israel's Hope was born in St. Louis, MO, at the invitation of Archbishop (now Cardinal) Raymond Burke. Having been strangely affected as a young Jewish girl in New York by the shortening of nuns’ habits, Rosalind’s dream is to establish an order of Sisters that will restore the hemline to the floor and the habit to the world, reaching out as messengers of hope in the midst of a needy world. On Our Mother’s nativity, September 8, 2011, she made her profession of vows and took the name Mother Miriam of the Lamb.