Roman Catholic Mass

Fr. Les Schmidt

Fr. Les Schmidt is a Roman Catholic priest with the Glenmary Home Missioners who service the US rural South. He has dedicated his life to being an advocate for social justice and serving the rural poor. Among other roles, he is a founding member of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia and is active in the Catholic Committee of the South. He has been a tireless advocate for immigration reform, workers’ rights and for any others who are marginalized. He speaks out regularly against mountaintop removal, racism, and the private prison industry. He is affectionately known by many as an itinerant priest who virtually lives out of his car, crisscrossing the US South whenever a voice for justice or a caring pastoral presence is needed.

Sessions:
269 Roman Catholic Mass

Terry Gonda

Music Curation/Board of Directors
Teresa Gonda is a wife, an Ignatian-trained spiritual director, a singer-songwriter, a Catholic music minister, an engineer, and an organizational development consultant. But it is the persistent aching in her soul for a deeper connection with the Divine Mystery that calls her towards the identity she treasures most: a “mystic in training”.

Drawing from the complexities of her own journey as a Catholic, lesbian, engineer, artist; Terry Gonda has been weaving stories of hope and inspiration through song for over 30 years. Her voice is strikingly soul-stirring, yet it is her passion, humor, and raw vulnerability that connect deep within the listener. Traversing genres of folk, pop, country and coffeehouse rock; she pairs her powerful vocals with skillful and playful guitar – from dynamic rock rhythms to delicate harmonic-laced finger style.
www.terrygonda.com/

Sessions:
269 Roman Catholic Mass
328 Goose in the Round