Annual retreat caters to Catholic health-care professionals across diocese By Gabrielle Nolan Catholic health-care professionals attended a Lenten retreat on Feb. 17 hosted at the Chancery in Knoxville by the local Catholic Medical Association St. Gianna Guild. The retreat, titled “Walking Lent with the Divine Physician,” included talks, Mass, confession, lunch, adoration, and a special presentation by the pro-life organization Her PLAN. Father Adam Royal, parochial vicar at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Lenoir City, serves as the chaplain for the guild and presented three talks for the retreat. Christ the Sacrament In Father Royal’s first talk, “Christ the Sacrament,” he referenced Mark 1:29-31, which is the story of Jesus healing Simon Peter’s mother-in-law from a fever. “I think this is a very important passage, especially for us as Catholics, because I think a lot of our sacramental theology itself flows from this one passage, and that can often... Read more →