Our Story

2026 / Now

The PM Bible Institute continues, with Fr. Jonathan Mayer as keynote speaker, including a track on home-based communities as a catalyst for growth in holiness. PM starts PM Young Adults to assist in making home-based communities for young adults.

2002–2025

PM continues producing One Bread, One Body, drawing heavily on Fr. Al's twenty years of teachings. For more than four decades, PM has served the Church through spiritual resources, retreats, and formation programs.

October 13, 2002

Fr. Al dies of liver cancer. Two weeks before his death, in great suffering, he wrote his final words for One Bread, One Body.

1998

Fr. Al becomes pastor of Old St. Mary's Parish in downtown Cincinnati, at a time when the parish was close to shutting down. While there, he helps open Old St. Mary's Pregnancy Center.

Fall 1993

Fr. Al has a vision to bring together PM's catechetical programs, develop them further, and establish a Catholic Bible College, which becomes Guadalupe Bible College. The Bible Institute, the Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel and Retreat Center, and Guadalupe Bible College were all founded by Fr. Al to equip the laity.

March 1992

Our Lady of Presentation Communities and Ministries is established as a Private Lay Association by Archbishop Pilarczyk of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

1987

PM purchases the Ministry Center on McHenry Ave in Cincinnati.

1980–1983

Mary Frye strongly encourages the publication of One Bread, One Body, supports the start of "How to Teach the Bible Seminars" at Our Lady of Presentation Church in Cincinnati, and starts one of the first PM Bible studies in her home.

1974

Originally a member of St. Ann Church in Hamilton, Ohio, Fr. Al is ordained a Catholic priest for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

1947

Fr. Albert E. Lauer, the founder of Presentation Ministries, is born on July 19, 1947.