Albacete Forum Parish Events
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Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete
Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete was a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington in residence at St. John the Evangelist parish from 1976-1982. By the time of his death in 2014, he was an internationally known theologian, speaker and writer with a gift for engaging the popular culture. Come learn more about what his witness can offer to us in this present moment!
Join us for periodic events at St. John's that explore Msgr.'s work and legacy, and especially his approach to the most urgent concerns of the human heart. To learn more about Msgr. Albacete, visit The Albacete Forum.
To receive Flocknote updates about Albacete Forum parish events at St. John's, text SJESS to 84576 and join the Albacete Forum group.
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UpCOMING Event- April 28, 7:30-9PM
Join us for Lorenzo Albacete: Searching for Truth Together, on Thursday, April 28, 2022, from 7:30-9PM in the Kennedy Room.
You can download the flyer here.
Coming out of the pandemic experience how do we search for truth together now in our parish?
All are welcome to a presentation featuring Albacete videos and readings that explore this desire in our hearts.
“What was important in the midst of these confusing circumstances was to find life,
life itself.”
–Lorenzo Albacete, The Relevance of the Stars
“Searching for Truth Together”Image: Van Gogh, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Advent Event 2021On Dec. 13, 2021, St. John’s parishioners Mike Burgess and John Capobianco joined Camil Martinez, Professor at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogata, Columbia, to talk about their experiences of Msgr. Albacete's friendship.
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More About Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete
Born in Puerto Rico, Msgr. Albacete attended The Catholic University of America (CUA), studying aeronautical engineering and later aerospace physics. He worked as a research scientist for seven years at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory before entering the seminary. This experience enabled him to offer a unique perspective on faith and reason throughout his life.
Ordained in 1973, he was priest secretary to Cardinal William Baum, theological advisor to Cardinal James Hickey, and professor at the JPII Institute for Marriage and Family at CUA. A friend to St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and Servant of God Msgr. Luigi Giussani, Msgr. Albacete fully embraced the wisdom, passion and beauty of Christ and his Church.
Because of this, he also welcomed those open to hearing that good news in the wider culture, writing for the New York Times, the New Yorker and other secular publications, and appeared on “Larry King”, “Charlie Rose”, CNN and “Frontline”. From the 1990s until his death in 2014, he held a U.S. leadership role in Communion and Liberation, a movement within the Church.
At his funeral Mass, his dear friend Cardinal Sean O’Malley said: "Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and Garcia Marquez together did not have enough imagination and genius to invent Father Lorenzo Albacete Cintron. Only God could create a Lorenzo and then He broke the mold because the world did not deserve to have two Lorenzos."
To learn more about Msgr. Albacete, visit The Albacete Forum.
“Any manifestation of authentic humanity—human works, human relationships, human dreams, human fears, and even human sins—is linked to Jesus Christ because there is no human reality without Christ. The human, the real, the world we build and the one in which we live—that is a path, the path of the human heart to Jesus Christ. The link is between Jesus and the real.”
–Lorenzo Albacete, The Relevance of the Stars
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