Location: Canada Given Track: General Discernment Katie, GIVEN '19 How would you describe your experience of the 2019 GIVEN Forum? I have already been describing it to friends and colleagues by saying that profound, inspiring, and transformational are all understatements for the GIVEN Forum. It was a formation that is truly allowing my heart and [...]
Location: New Mexico Forum Track: Catholic Professional Carla, GIVEN '19 What is your biggest takeaway or insight from the GIVEN Forum? I was given clarity on what it means to be feminine. Action Plan: I hope to create advancement opportunities at the Catholic elementary school where I teach and ultimately create scholarships to help families [...]
Location: Texas Forum Track: Entrepreneurial Carmel, GIVEN '19 What is your biggest takeaway or insight from the GIVEN Forum? God has given us the gift of unique and innate femininity. There is nothing wrong with being a woman, and there is more than one way to live out our innate maternal instinct. Action Plan: With [...]
Location: New York Forum Track: Post-Missionary Lissette, GIVEN '19 What is your biggest takeaway or insight from the GIVEN Forum? God delights in me as His daughter, and I am worthy of loving and being loved. Action Plan: My action plan will be to create outreach groups for teens and elementary school students within the [...]
Location: Virginia Forum Track: Secular Professional Kara, GIVEN '19 What is your biggest takeaway or insight from the GIVEN Forum? That no matter what my vocation, it will be a joyful one. Action Plan: I will execute my action plan by setting up social media accounts with a brand name "Miracle." I hope to show [...]
When I heard Sr. Norma Pimentel, Executive Director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, speak at the 2016 GIVEN Forum, I felt compelled to help her mission close to the US-Mexico border but I had no idea how or why. I prayed and waited for God to make a way.
Pilgrim, Italian Laywoman, Loving Wife, Joyful and Sacrificial Mother © 2012 Famiglia Corbella Petrillo Chiara Corbella Petrillo Chiara was born into a faithful Christian family, and was part of the “Wojytla generation” of Catholics growing up during Pope John Paul II’s papacy. At the age of 18, she met the love of her life, Enrico, [...]
Devoted Wife and Mother, Persistent in Prayer, Model of Patience, Instrument of Conversion St. Monica St. Monica is a woman often admired for her patience and perseverance. Though her life presented circumstances which could have easily given way to frustration and resentment, she used her trials to draw nearer to God, resulting not only in [...]
Location: New Lenox, IL Job Title: Faith Formation Coordinator Organization: St. Mary’s Parish in Mokena, IL Education: North Central College Degree: Organizational Communications Danielle Kuboushek, GIVEN '16 "GIVEN was so influential on my view of how I personally could contribute to the Church and the good of others. I left with a sense of purpose, knowing [...]
Location: Fredericksburg, VA Job Title: Associate Campus Minister Organization: University of Mary Washington, Catholic Campus Ministry Education: The Catholic University of America; Franciscan University of Steubenville Degree: Bachelors in Biology, Minor in Theology; Masters in Catechetics and Evangelization, Spring 2019 Katrina Oteyza, GIVEN '16 "Our role as women is to rest in knowing our identity as [...]
