The Rev. Alberto Cutié, a media personality, author and columnist popularly known as Father Oprah, will lead a workshop/retreat this Sunday, March 18, 2018, from 4 pm to 6 pm at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown.
Cutié is the first priest to host a secular talk show on radio and TV. His columns appear in many Spanish-language newspapers, and his books include Real Life, Real Love, a bestseller in the Spanish language market, and Dilemma: A Priest’s Struggle with Faith and Love.
Born in Puerto Rico to Cuban exiles, Cutié was ordained a Roman Catholic priest. He left in 2009 after publication of photos of himself with a woman on a beach. Cutié now is rector of St. Benedict’s, an Episcopal parish in Plantation, FL, and is married with two children.
The workshop will address Jesus’ message that we all hail from a “foreign land,” yet are called to live together, said St. Peter’s Rector Janet Broderick.
Members of the Spanish-speaking community who attend St. Peter’s are invited “to come together and begin thinking about our future together,” Broderick said.
“Do we live parallel lives in Morris County? How can we work together? How can we learn from each other?” she asked. The general public is welcome, she said.
The session will conclude at 6 pm with a bi-lingual worship service, with music from St. Peter’s Choristers and singers and liturgical dancers from Living Waters Church, the Latino congregation that worships at St. Peter’s. Living Waters Pastor Gilma Ramos will preach with Broderick, and Cutié will speak.
Also known as “Padre Alberto,” Cutié recently delivered the keynote talk at the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes. He’s a former president and general director of Radio Paz and Radio Peace Catholic, and has hosted Al Dia and Linea Directa.
He directed daily operations of Pax Catholic Communications for the Archdiocese of Miami until 2009, the same year the AARP named him an Hispanic Ambassador.
