Presenters Biographies:

"....practically everyone in attendance took the opportunity to spend time with Jacqueline in prayer and Bishop Gilmore in confession.  Many souls were touched and led closer to Christ! I would recommend Grace that Reigns to other pastors seeking to help lead their congregations to a place of healing and a renewed sense of wonder!"  

Rev. Sergio Munez Fita Pastor, St Anne Roman Catholic Parish (Gilbert,Arizona)

"Thank you so much for the retreat experience here at St. Catherine Parish. I have known Bishop Gilmore for forty years! I respect him immensely and hold him in very high regard. I believe that his work with Jacqueline Loh will bear much fruit as they travel the country. They are a deeply spiritual team and our parish is very grateful for their time with us."  

Fr. Dan Spexarth, Pastor, St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Wichita, Kansas.

After years of private ministry, in 2008, Jacqueline Loh  founded and established Grace That Reigns Society in Vancouver, Canada. In 2012, she invited Bishop Ronald Gilmore, (who had just retired) from the Diocese of Dodge City, Kansas to partner with her and for the next years they travelled together,  offering missions and retreats mostly in Canada. In 2014, she and Bishop Ronald Gilmore opened up another satellite office in the U.S.  Since then, the  two of them have been invited to speak at parishes and priests day of recollection across rural and urban dioceses.

PRESENTER: 



Bishop Emeritus Ronald M. Gilmore STL, DD
Emeritus of Dodge City Kansas
Spiritual Director, Grace That Reigns 

Bishop Emeritus Ronald M. Gilmore comes to us from the Diocese of Dodge City, Kansas and is the spiritual director of Grace That Reigns. Bishop Gilmore was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Wichita, KS in 1969 and spent the next 47 years as Priest, Professor, Chaplain, Chancellor, Vicar General, and as Bishop of Dodge City, KS (1998-2011).
 
He is a gifted and prolific writer; a compassionate storyteller; and a powerful, gentle, and warm speaker with an interest in Ignatian and Carmelite Spirituality. Bishop Gilmore’s greatest strength is his ability to lead people into a simpler form of prayer: to let the Spirit pray within a person, as St. Paul described it in Romans 8. His two other passions are to remind priests of the new stages in their lifelong dialogue with the Lord and to engage their parishioners in a series of conversations about wonder and the grace of God’s healing, whether it be in the form of physical, emotional, or spiritual healing. His presentation style is straightforward yet poetic and sinks deeply into the heart. He has published a number of books which contain personal reflections that he submitted in the Southwest Kansas Register during his years of leadership.
 
He joined Jacqueline Loh at Grace That Reigns in 2012 as a response to a call within his own vocation to bring renewal to priests and their parishioners. His retirement has been spent in the spiritual direction of priests, religious, and laypeople. In addition to offering direction, he works with Grace That Reigns Society USA, and with Grace That Reigns Canada where he gives retreats and missions all around the country.
 
Bishop Gilmore's special topics of interest include Ignatian spirituality and contemplative prayer, the dynamics of spiritual direction, listening and discerning effectively, and the grace of aging. His published works include: Another Way, Whispers from the Rooftops, and Like the Dewfall.
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Jacqueline Loh 
Founder and President of Grace that Reigns

Jacqueline Loh is from the Archdiocese of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and the founder of Grace That Reigns Society. She is a trained Landscape Architect and Ecological Planner/Designer. She also studied at the Augustine Institute of scripture and evangelization in Denver, Colorado.

Jacqueline's topics of interest include healing, understanding interior graces, renewing awe or wonder for the Lord, and bringing insights into the mystery of the priestly vocation.
Her published works include:  When Monday Comes.

Jacqueline has been involved in some facets of ministry life since 2000. It is through her powerful testimonies and witness on the many ways through which God's grace works in our daily lives that Jacqueline's ministry has become a source of healing to many. She introduces God’s love and reality in a manner that celebrates a person’s individuality and uniqueness. She  also, not only challenges both pastors and lay persons in their faith, but she helps to renew their sense of wonder and relationship with God in a way that is compelling. Her strength lies in her ability, as an instrument, to bring authenticity, witness and healing  to people that is both refreshing and effective.

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Dear Friends, 

Five years, ten, twenty-five, Fifty years: I have never paused at, or passed by, a milestone without wondering what was happening.  Not about what I have made of those years: that has never been much, really.  But at what those years have made of me.
 
For God, in his mysterious Providence, has been at work in all the times, the people, the places, the things, and the events of these fifty years.  He has been moving me here, and then there. He has been stopping me now, and starting me then.  He has appealed to my flawed freedom, has been resisted, or rejected, and has appealed yet again.  That curious back-and-forth, that mysterious exchange, ​that​ has been the essential wonder of these fifty years.  

During the last eight of these years, he has called me into the orbit of GRACE THAT REIGNS, the retreat ministry that he placed first in Jacqueline Loh’s heart.  It is where I needed to be once the time was ripe.  And so it came to pass.  And so He continues to press in this good work.
This is my great adventure.
  
Dante had it right in the Divine Comedy ({Paradiso, Canto 3, 85): ​E’n la sua voluntade e nostra pace.​ … ​in His will is our peace.

+ Bishop Ronald Michael Gilmore

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A Special Note from his brother, Dennis Gilmore:  

Who would have thought that back in the day in the backyard at 115 West Forest that this same young man would find his path in life. He started by watching over his younger brother and spent his whole life taking care of the needs of his continuous, ever changing flocks through spiritual and compassionate support. 

I can and will speak for the whole Gilmore clan in saying that we are extremely proud of your accomplishments as you celebrate 50 years of outstanding service as the Shepherd to the lives of all the parishioners you have impacted. 

All the things you are—administrator, storyteller, homilist, the thing that stands out to me is your genuine interest in listening. The compassion that comes out it is the real thing. 
Thank you for always being there for your family and for sharing your wisdom, love and spirituality. You are loved and respected for all you have done!

Dennis Gilmore