Divine Mercy in the Gospels

December 9-12, 2024
With Fr. Ben Cameron, C.P.M.

M I S S I O N   T A L K  |  7:00-8:00PM in the Church

C O N F E S S I O N  |  After Morning Mass and before & after Mission Talk 

M A S S  SCHEDULE: 

• December 9 (Immaculate Conception, Holy Day) – 9AM, Noon, 7PM;  
• December 10 & 11 – 7:30AM;
• December 12 (Our Lady of Guadalupe) – 7:30AM, 7PM

About Fr. Ben Cameron, C.P.M.

Fr. Ben Cameron was born in Kokomo, Indiana, and grew up as a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church in that city.  During his junior high and high school years, he attended a small Christian school that was operated by a local Baptist church.  It was in that non-Catholic environment, where his faith was often challenged, that he began to study the Catholic Faith.  Fr. Ben is a 1991 graduate of Christendom College, a small Catholic liberal arts college in Front Royal, Virginia, where he became involved in the Legion of Mary, which awakened his desire to share his Catholic Faith with others.  Upon receiving his degree in Political Science and History, Fr. Ben planned a career in the political arena, but soon found that God had other plans.  He joined the Fathers of Mercy in 1992, studied theology at Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut, and was ordained to the Holy Priesthood on May 31, 1997.  Fr. Ben has served as Vocation Director, Treasurer, Mission Director and Assistant General of the Fathers of Mercy during his priesthood.  He has served as a full-time parish mission preacher and retreat master (2000-2018), and as pastor of St. Helen’s Parish, Glasgow, Kentucky, and its mission church, Our Lady of the Caves in Horse Cave, Kentucky (2018-2022).  He is once again serving as a full-time parish mission preacher and retreat master.

The Congregation of the Fathers of Mercy was founded in 1808, originally under the title of the “Missionaries of France.”  The community was founded for the purpose of re-evangelizing the French people after the Catholic Faith had been subjected to years of attacks and persecution during the French Revolution.  It is now an exclusively American community.  The Generalate of the community is located a few miles outside of Bowling Green, Kentucky.  The primary apostolate of the Fathers of Mercy is to conduct parish missions and retreats, which are now given throughout the United States, Canada and Australia.

During the mission, Fr. Ben will encourage and challenge the parish community to make a stronger, deeper personal commitment to Jesus Christ and His Church.  His topic that he will speak on during this mission is the Infinite Mercy of God, and how we can live the Divine Mercy devotion more deeply through understanding its roots in the Gospels.