Ralph Martin

President of Renewal Ministries

Ralph Martin is the president of Renewal Ministries (www.renewalministries.net), an organization devoted to Catholic renewal and evangelization which also engages in a wide variety of mission work in more than thirty countries. Renewal Ministries is the sponsor of The Choices We Face, a widely viewed weekly Catholic television and radio program distributed throughout the world.

Ralph holds a doctorate in theology from the Angelicum University in Rome. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him as a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization where he served a 12-year term. He was also appointed as a theological expert for the Synod on the New Evangelization. Ralph served for 23 years as Director of Graduate Theology Programs in the New Evangelization at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit.

Ralph is the author of the widely read The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints, and many books on spirituality and evangelization, as well as many articles in scholarly and popular publications. His latest books are A Life in the Spirit: A Memoir and The Coming Judgement: Are We Ready?

Ralph and his wife, Anne, reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and have six children and nineteen grandchildren.

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Advent Mission

The Fulfillment of All Desire: An Advent Mission With Ralph Martin

Watch the Digital Advent Mission with Ralph Martin:

Session 1: Basic Decisions

Session 2: Important Practices

Session 3: Initial Challenges

Session 4: Basic Stability

This LIVE, online Advent Mission will help you build a solid foundation for the spiritual journey! Each Sunday in Advent, from 8-9 p.m. ET, Dr. Ralph Martin will teach and answer questions on the first stages of the spiritual journey, as found in his book The Fulfillment of All Desire.

This Advent Mission is for everyone! Ensure your foundations are still strong, or discover the basic decisions and practices necessary to make further progress in the spiritual life!

Msgr. Charles Pope said, “Of all the books on prayer I recommend, (this) is at the very top of my list. Anyone for whom I have been a spiritual director will attest that my first request of him or her is to obtain a copy . . . and begin reading it.”

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