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Friday, Saturday, & Sunday July 27, 28, & 29 |
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At Ohio Dominican University 1216 Sunbury Road Erskine Hall Columbus, Ohio 43219 |
♱ SPEAKERS and GUESTS ♱
(Please note, all speakers and guests are subject to change)
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Fr. Wade Menezes, C.P.M. , Fathers of Mercy
Father Wade Menezes (pronounced MEN-EE-ZEZ, rhymes with "diseases") is a member of the Fathers of Mercy, a missionary preaching Religious Order based in Auburn, Kentucky. Ordained a priest during the Great Jubilee Year 2000, he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Catholic Thought from St. Philip's Oratoryin Toronto, Canada and his Master of Arts and Master of Divinity Degrees in theology from Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut. His secular college degrees are in journalism and communications.
Having served as the Vocation Director and Student Master for the Fathers of Mercy, Fr. Wade has also served as the Chaplain-in-Residence at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, Alabama. While at the Shrine, Fr. Wade was a daily Mass celebrant, homilist and confessor; he also gave spiritual conferences on Catholic Christian doctrine to the many pilgrims who visit the Shrine. Both the Monastery and Shrine are affiliated with EWTN, the Eternal Word Television Network.
Fr. Wade has been a contributing writer for the National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor, Catholic Twin Circle, The Wanderer, Pastoral Life, The Catholic Faith, Lay Witness and Christian Ranchman publications. Several homiletic series of his have also appeared in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, an international journal for Priests. His presentations have been featured on EWTN Radio, Voice of Virtue International and Ave Maria Radio. Fr. Wade has been a guest on various episodes of EWTN's "Mother Angelica Live", "Life on the Rock", "The Abundant Life" and "Women of Grace" series during which he discussed such topics as the sanctification of marriage and family life, vocations and the Sacred Liturgy. He has also hosted several televised series for EWTN, which have covered an array of topics including the necessity of the spiritual life, the commandments of Catholic family living and the gospel of life vs. the culture of death. He is host of the EWTN quick-take series, The Crux of the Matter. For more info go to www.fathersofmercy.org
Having served as the Vocation Director and Student Master for the Fathers of Mercy, Fr. Wade has also served as the Chaplain-in-Residence at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, Alabama. While at the Shrine, Fr. Wade was a daily Mass celebrant, homilist and confessor; he also gave spiritual conferences on Catholic Christian doctrine to the many pilgrims who visit the Shrine. Both the Monastery and Shrine are affiliated with EWTN, the Eternal Word Television Network.
Fr. Wade has been a contributing writer for the National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor, Catholic Twin Circle, The Wanderer, Pastoral Life, The Catholic Faith, Lay Witness and Christian Ranchman publications. Several homiletic series of his have also appeared in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, an international journal for Priests. His presentations have been featured on EWTN Radio, Voice of Virtue International and Ave Maria Radio. Fr. Wade has been a guest on various episodes of EWTN's "Mother Angelica Live", "Life on the Rock", "The Abundant Life" and "Women of Grace" series during which he discussed such topics as the sanctification of marriage and family life, vocations and the Sacred Liturgy. He has also hosted several televised series for EWTN, which have covered an array of topics including the necessity of the spiritual life, the commandments of Catholic family living and the gospel of life vs. the culture of death. He is host of the EWTN quick-take series, The Crux of the Matter. For more info go to www.fathersofmercy.org
Fr. Thomas Buffer
Fr. Thomas Buffer is a priest of the Diocese of Columbus, ordained in 1991. After completing his seminary studies in Rome, he served at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Grove City and St. Andrew Parish in Upper Arlington, during which time he completed a licentiate degree in Marian Theology at the International Marian Research Institute at the University of Dayton. He then returned to Rome for three years of doctoral study, and taught theology at theJosephinum for five years before returning to parish ministry at St. Stephen the Martyr Parish in Columbus in 2006. He teaches a course in Mariology every summer at the University of Dayton.
Fr. Buffer is a board member of the Society for Catholic Liturgy and in May 2010 was elected President of the Mariological Society of America, a Catholic theological association dedicated to studying and making known the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the mystery of Christ and in the Church and in the history of salvation. He has published several articles and translated two books on Mariology, both by Fr. Luigi Gambero: Mary and the Fathers of the Church and Mary in the Middle Ages. Most recently he updated the article on Devotion to Mary in the New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement (2010).
Fr. Buffer is a board member of the Society for Catholic Liturgy and in May 2010 was elected President of the Mariological Society of America, a Catholic theological association dedicated to studying and making known the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the mystery of Christ and in the Church and in the history of salvation. He has published several articles and translated two books on Mariology, both by Fr. Luigi Gambero: Mary and the Fathers of the Church and Mary in the Middle Ages. Most recently he updated the article on Devotion to Mary in the New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement (2010).
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold is a Roman Catholic speaker, author and producer. After his conversion to the Catholic Faith in 1996, Matthew created and produced several nationally broadcast Catholic radio programs including Reasons for Faith LIVE. He also hosted Scripture Matters LIVE with Dr. Scott Hahn for EWTN Global Catholic Radio. As the Creative Director for Saint Joseph Communications, Inc. Matthew produced dozens of audio and video presentations that have been distributed and broadcast worldwide including The Story of the Bible, Reflections on the Mass, Our Catholic Faith and Pray the Rosary with the Psalms.
Matthew, in association with the Catholic Resource Center, has launched the God Love You apostolate which introduces a new generation to the wisdom, philosophy and spirituality of Servant of God Fulton J. Sheen. The author of numerous articles and the founder of Pro Multis Media, Matthew holds a certificate in Christian Counseling and is a member of the Society for Christian Psychology.
Currently, Matthew works with Saint Joseph Communications, the Catholic Resource Center, Lighthouse Catholic Media and other lay apostolates giving inspiring live presentations and producing Catholic CDs and DVDs. He resides in Southern California with his wife Betty and their six home-schooled children.
Matthew is very entertaining and enthusiastically speaks on a variety of topics.
For more information, go to www.promultismedia.net/
Matthew, in association with the Catholic Resource Center, has launched the God Love You apostolate which introduces a new generation to the wisdom, philosophy and spirituality of Servant of God Fulton J. Sheen. The author of numerous articles and the founder of Pro Multis Media, Matthew holds a certificate in Christian Counseling and is a member of the Society for Christian Psychology.
Currently, Matthew works with Saint Joseph Communications, the Catholic Resource Center, Lighthouse Catholic Media and other lay apostolates giving inspiring live presentations and producing Catholic CDs and DVDs. He resides in Southern California with his wife Betty and their six home-schooled children.
Matthew is very entertaining and enthusiastically speaks on a variety of topics.
For more information, go to www.promultismedia.net/
Dr. Kelly Bowring, S.T.D.
Catholic theologian and popular speaker, is married and a father of eight. He received his masters in Theology from Franciscan University in Steubenville; his Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Dominican House of Studies and the John Paul II Institute, Washington, DC, while working for the US Bishops Office; and his Pontifical Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. He initiated the theology program at St. Mary’s College of Ave Maria University, and has recently been the Dean of Spiritual Mission and a Professor of Theology at Southern Catholic College. He has dedicated years of service to parish ministry and Catholic school education, is the author of various published theology articles and catechetical books, and is a popular speaker at Marian conferences. Dr.Kelly Bowring is also the Academic Dean of Religious Studies at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia.
For more info go to www.twoheartspress.com
For more info go to www.twoheartspress.com
Randy Albright
Award winning country music songwriter and Catholic recording artist Randy Albright is touring parish communities around the United States with his one hour musical tribute to the Blessed Virgin entitled “A Musical Celebration of Mary.”
This spiritually delivered one hour performance of songs and dialogue have left diverse audiences of all ages with a deeper understanding and greater appreciation of Mary and the role that she plays in the salvation of mankind, bringing people closer to her son. Adopted into a Polish-American Catholic family as an infant, Randy grew up entertaining in front of disabled veterans and nursing home patients then moved to Nashville at age 20 to pursue a career in songwriting.
In 2003 he felt divinely inspired to compose a new version of the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy which found immediate approval by the Marians of the Immaculate Conception. This was the beginning of his country music exodus and the start of his Catholic music ministry and serving as music minister at his parish for the Saturday evening Masses.
For more information, go to www.ikahnrecords.com/
This spiritually delivered one hour performance of songs and dialogue have left diverse audiences of all ages with a deeper understanding and greater appreciation of Mary and the role that she plays in the salvation of mankind, bringing people closer to her son. Adopted into a Polish-American Catholic family as an infant, Randy grew up entertaining in front of disabled veterans and nursing home patients then moved to Nashville at age 20 to pursue a career in songwriting.
In 2003 he felt divinely inspired to compose a new version of the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy which found immediate approval by the Marians of the Immaculate Conception. This was the beginning of his country music exodus and the start of his Catholic music ministry and serving as music minister at his parish for the Saturday evening Masses.
For more information, go to www.ikahnrecords.com/
Mark Mallett
Singing and playing guitar since the age of nine, Mark Mallett is a Canadian singer/songwriter & Catholic evangelist. Since leaving his career as a successful television journalist in 2000, Mark has been touring extensively throughout North America and abroad giving parish missions & concerts, and speaking and ministering at retreats, conferences and Catholic schools. He had the privilege of singing at the Vatican and presenting his music to Pope Benedict XVI. Mark has appeared on EWTN's Life on the Rock as well as on a number of other television and radio broadcasts. While singing a song he had written for the Liturgy of the Mass ("Holy, Holy, Holy"), Mark felt drawn to go to the church and pray before the Blessed Sacrament. It was there that He heard the Lord calling him to become a watchman for this generation, as Pope John Paul II asked the youth at World Youth Day in Toronto, Canada.
With that, and under the care of his spiritual directors, Mark began to publish meditations on the internet to prepare the Church for the dramatic times we live in. They are now read by thousands throughout the world (www.markmallett.com/blog). Mark also recently published a summary of those writings in the Fall of 2009 in a book called The Final Confrontation. At the same time, Mark has also launched the second phase of his ministry in a weekly webcast called Embracing Hope. Mark and his wife Lea have eight beautiful children together and make their home in Western Canada.
Elizabeth Ficocelli
Elizabeth Ficocelli was born in New York where she was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. By adolescence, she grew dissatisfied with the lack of answers to her questions about certain beliefs. When her future husband, Mark, invited her to Mass on their college campus, she experienced for the first time a spiritual connection with her fellow worshippers and a deepening love for God. Once Elizabeth entered the Catholic Church in 1983, she immersed herself in reading everything she could about her new faith. She began with supernatural phenomena such as Eucharistic Miracles, stigmata and apparitions, then progressed to Church history, the saints, and apologetics (the defense of the faith.) The more she read, the more reasons Elizabeth found to love the Catholic faith. She asked God how she could share her love of his Church with others, and he showed her the answer: through her writing.
In the year 2000, after a 20-year career in advertising, Elizabeth launched a new ministry in spiritual writing for young people and adults. For children, she has published a series of children’s sacramental books, a series on vocations awareness, and a chapter book on how to follow Jesus. For teens and young adults, she has published a book on Divine wonders such as Eucharistic miracles and the stigmata. For adults, she has written books on the sacraments, Lourdes, Medjugorje, and Saint Therese of Lisieux. Elizabeth has also published eleven articles in national Catholic magazines including St. Anthony Messenger, Liguorian, America, Columbia, Catholic Parent, Take Out (Our Sunday Visitor), and Lay Witness Online. 2007 saw the introduction of her first secular children’s book, Kid Tea.
In addition to her writing, Elizabeth is a popular speaker at conferences, parishes, schools, and events. She is also the host of a radio program called "Answering The Call." Elizabeth resides with her husband and four boys in Ohio, where their Catholic faith remains the center of their family life.
For more information, go to www.elizabethficocelli.com
In the year 2000, after a 20-year career in advertising, Elizabeth launched a new ministry in spiritual writing for young people and adults. For children, she has published a series of children’s sacramental books, a series on vocations awareness, and a chapter book on how to follow Jesus. For teens and young adults, she has published a book on Divine wonders such as Eucharistic miracles and the stigmata. For adults, she has written books on the sacraments, Lourdes, Medjugorje, and Saint Therese of Lisieux. Elizabeth has also published eleven articles in national Catholic magazines including St. Anthony Messenger, Liguorian, America, Columbia, Catholic Parent, Take Out (Our Sunday Visitor), and Lay Witness Online. 2007 saw the introduction of her first secular children’s book, Kid Tea.
In addition to her writing, Elizabeth is a popular speaker at conferences, parishes, schools, and events. She is also the host of a radio program called "Answering The Call." Elizabeth resides with her husband and four boys in Ohio, where their Catholic faith remains the center of their family life.
For more information, go to www.elizabethficocelli.com
Mother Margaret Mary, Children of Mary
Mother Margaret Mary was raised Catholic and educated by the Sisters of Charity in both elementary and high school. She attended a university that was Catholic in name only, and after hearing the theology professor tell the class they didn’t have to listen to the Pope, confused as to who to believe- the Sisters who taught her or the Catholic college professor, she abandoned the Faith. So began a journey seeking truth and meaning. During that time she taught elementary school and received a MA degree in counseling. In the early days of the feminist movement, she began to read their literature, bought into their propaganda, and became anti-Catholic because women couldn’t be priests. But eighteen years later, some of her friends invited her to a Catholic retreat. At the retreat a priest prayed over her. As the priest prayed, it seemed like a cloud lifted from her head and she saw clearly that the Catholic Church’s teachings were true. A few hours later she went to confession, and when the priest gave her absolution her soul was flooded with great joy, and now she lives to spread love for Our Lord and His Holy Catholic Church.
In 1989 she moved to rural Licking County and lived as a hermit for 12 years. In 2002 Mother Margaret Mary was consecrated by Bishop James A. Griffin who gave her her religious name and his blessing to form the community of Sisters, the Children of Mary, to proclaim to the world the beauty of the Catholic Faith and that the Eucharist is truly Jesus, the living God Incarnate!
Contact her at Children of Mary, 8353 Pleasant Chapel Road, Newark, Ohio 43056
Phone: 740-323-1977 E-mail: childrenofmary@juno.com
In 1989 she moved to rural Licking County and lived as a hermit for 12 years. In 2002 Mother Margaret Mary was consecrated by Bishop James A. Griffin who gave her her religious name and his blessing to form the community of Sisters, the Children of Mary, to proclaim to the world the beauty of the Catholic Faith and that the Eucharist is truly Jesus, the living God Incarnate!
Contact her at Children of Mary, 8353 Pleasant Chapel Road, Newark, Ohio 43056
Phone: 740-323-1977 E-mail: childrenofmary@juno.com
Mary Sue Eck
Mary Sue Eck, with her husband Larry, was called by Our Lady, in Medjugorje, to publish Medjugorje Magazine. It has been published for over 23 years and is the largest magazine on Medjugorje in the world. Twenty years ago they opened the Marian Center and Catholic Shoppe in Westmont, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. The two of them took 12 pilgrimages of Married Couples to Medjugorje, where they gave them a marriage retreat. They hosted 13 Marian Conferences in the Chicago area, and have published three books on Medjugorje. Larry died last year, but Mary Sue continues their ministry. She will talk of the signposts that shaped her life of ministry.
