Our Role as a Jubilee33 Collaborator
Prayer and Collaboration
Every apostolate in this collaboration brings its own charism. Some bring media, some formation, some shrines and pilgrimage, some the witness of relics or the Shroud. What the Eucharistic Rosary Congresses brings is prayer.
The Eucharistic Rosary Congresses is one of the collaborating apostolates of Jubilee33, listed among the movements, shrines, media apostolates, and lay initiatives on the Jubilee33 collaborators page.
“As Chairman of the Eucharistic Rosary Congresses, I am honored that our apostolate is part of the Pan American Confraternity Forums. I am especially grateful that our President, Kristin Bird, has been invited to serve on the Core Team… We are deeply committed to supporting the bishops, shrines, and confraternities in their mission to evangelize the world and to help build a civilization of love rooted in devotion to Our Eucharistic Lord and Our Lady.”
— Betty Belk, Chairman, Eucharistic Rosary Congresses
What We Bring
A Eucharistic Rosary Congress is seven days and nights of continuous Eucharistic Adoration during which the Holy Rosary is prayed aloud at the top of every hour, day and night, without interruption.
That is not a supplement to the work of evangelization. It is the ground of it. The Church has never renewed herself by planning alone. Before the Apostles went out, they were gathered in the Upper Room with Mary, the Mother of Jesus, praying. Jubilee33 has described the St. Louis Collaborator Summit as an “Upper Room moment” — and an Upper Room without prayer is only a room.
The Eucharistic Rosary Congresses has pledged prayerful support for every meeting and event of the Jubilee33 Journey, from now through 2033. Each gathering, each working session, each milestone on the road to the Jubilee of Redemption will be carried in Adoration and in the Rosary. We ask Our Lady to place this entire journey under her mantle.
The first of those commitments is already underway: a Traveling Rosary Congress, August 31 – September 6, 2026, accompanying the St. Louis Collaborator Summit through five host sites in two countries. See the schedule →
Kristin Bird on the Jubilee33 Core Team
Kristin Bird is President of the Eucharistic Rosary Congresses and serves as a member of the Jubilee33 Core Team.
The Core Team is the small working group that carries the practical and strategic direction of the movement — convening the collaborators, shaping the agenda of the gatherings, and guiding development of the Instrumentum Laboris that will frame the Church's preparation for 2033. Her fellow members include Bishop Pierre-Olivier Tremblay of the CCCB Permanent Council; Dennis Girard of the Marian Devotional Movement, founder of the PAC27 Forum; Umberto Angeloni of the Pan European Confraternity Forum; Carol Bezak, President of the National Association of Shrines and Pilgrimages; Dr. Ben Akers, Chief Mission Officer of the Augustine Institute; Marilyn Santos of the USCCB Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis; and Fr. Fabio de Souza, Chaplain of the Marian Devotional Movement.
Her presence on that team matters for a specific reason. It means the Eucharistic and Marian dimension of this preparation — Adoration, the Rosary, the hourly return to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament — is represented where the planning actually happens, rather than appended to it afterward. When the collaborators ask how the Holy Spirit is inspiring this movement, the answer that prayer must come first has a voice in the room.
The Apostolic Blessing of Pope Leo XIV
In 2025, during the Jubilee Year of Hope, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV granted an Apostolic Blessing to President Kristin Bird and to all who participate in and support the Eucharistic Rosary Congresses, commending the members of the ERC to the maternal protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, “that by the witness of generous and faithful hearts the Flame of Hope may always shine brightly in our world.”
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