Join us this Sunday, December 4 at 10:00am when the Rev. Dr. Luigi Gioia, our new Associate for Adult Education and Formation, will join Fr. Moretz for an introductory interview for the first weeks of his new ministry. This will be a great way to welcome and to meet our newest priest. You are welcome to join us in person on the Fifth Floor of the Parish House or on Zoom. Please contact Fr. Matthew Moretz, Vicar and Chief Operating Officer (COO), for login instructions.
The Rev. Dr. Luigi Gioia was most recently Associate Priest and Director of Formation at St Paul’s Knightsbridge, London, and a Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute at the University of Cambridge (UK). He was a Benedictine monk for 25 years and did his doctoral studies at the University of Oxford. He taught theology for almost 20 years in France and at the Pontifical University of St Anselm in Rome. He discovered the beauty of the liturgical and theological traditions of the Anglican Church during his time in Oxford and became an Anglican a few years later.Luigi is a writer in theology and spirituality. He gives talks, preaches retreats, leads workshops, and teaches courses as an invited lecturer in universities, theological colleges, and parishes all over the world. He is fluent in English, French and Italian. His books have been translated in five languages. His spiritual meditations have been published by The Tablet, Crux, The America Magazine, The Church Times and broadcast by the BBC.
Besides his academic work on St Augustine, Luigi has written several wide-audience books on spirituality. His book Say It To God. In Search Of Prayer was chosen as the Archbishop of Canterbury Lent Book for 2018.
