Featuring award-winning preacher and author, Reverend Maurice Nutt, CSsR:

"Martin de Porres: Model of Racial Healing and Reconciliation"

The Center at Mariandale is pleased to welcome renowned preacher and activist, Rev. Maurice Nutt, CSsR, to serve as its St. Martin de Porres Day speaker on Saturday, November 4, 10am to 2pm. Celebrating the legacy of this 16th century Dominican priest and first Black saint of the Americas, Mariandale dedicates this event to education about antiracism and building an inclusive church and society. The event will include preaching by Fr. Maurice as well as festive praise dance and singing from area groups. Mariandale will provide a luncheon from 12 to 1pm.

Also featured at this event are the Sinai Radiant Liturgical Dancers and the Voices of Victory choir, both from St. John’s University.

Date and Time: Saturday, November 4, 2023, offered in two attendance options:

• 10am to 2pm for on-site presentation in the Chapel at Mariandale. Mariandale will provide a luncheon from 12 to 1pm.
• 10am to 12noon for online Zoom presentation, only.

Fee: $40 for on-site presentation, with luncheon. $20 for online Zoom presentation from 10am to noon, only.

About the Presenter: Reverend Maurice J. Nutt, CSsR, DMin, holds a doctorate degree in preaching from Aquinas Institute of Theology. He has served as pastor in parishes in St. Louis and Memphis. He is a nationally noted retreat, revival, and parish mission preacher. Father Maurice is a former director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana, and a past convener of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium. Father Maurice serves as a doctoral thesis advisor in the Doctor of Ministry degree program in preaching as well as senior consultant for the Black preaching track in the Academy for the Mastery of Preaching at Aquinas Institute of Theology.

He wrote an award-winning biography of his mentor, Sister Thea Bowman, FSPA, titled, Thea Bowman: Faithful and Free (Liturgical Press), and Down Deep in My Soul: An African American Catholic Theology of Preaching (Orbis Books). His latest book co-edited with Greg Heille, O.P, and Deborah Wilhem is Preaching Racial Justice (Orbis Books).

Father Nutt is a member of the Redemptorists' Denver Province Extraordinary Provincial Council and serves as a consultant of the cause for canonization of Sister Thea Bowman, FSPA, for the Diocese of Jackson. Father Maurice founded Copiosa Care, a Redemptorist Spiritual Direction ministry in February 2021. In 2023, Father Nutt was appointed interim director of the National Shrine of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos. He was inducted into the 2022 Class of the prestigious Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Board of Preachers at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Father Maurice is a proud life-member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He serves as the local superior of the Redemptorist community in New Orleans.