Virtual Rosary Congress
In Preparation for the Feast of Mercy
April 13-19, 2020
This Congress Has Ended
Eucharistic Adoration
Around the Clock
Visit an Adoration Chapel near you if possible, or do a virtual holy hour in your own home using the above live stream of Eucharistic Adoration at Tuburn Convent in London, or using another Eucharistic Adoration live stream from anywhere around the world! Sign up above to commit to a virtual holy hour!
Rosary + Divine Mercy Chaplet
Every Hour on the Hour
Pray the Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet at the beginning of your hour, whether in an Adoration chapel or in your own home via the live stream above. When every hour is filled, the Rosary will be prayed every hour non-stop for seven days! The 7 PM EDT (GMT -4) Rosary will be led by our speaker.
Special Events Each Day
4 PM EDT (GMT -4) Divine Mercy Sunday Mass
10 AM EDT Mon-Sat
Fr. Francis Dankoski is the Spiritual Director of Diocesan Rosary Congresses and serves in the Diocese of Steubenville.
Fr. Francis Dankoski is the Spiritual Director of Diocesan Rosary Congresses and serves in the Diocese of Steubenville.
The Very Reverend José I. Lavastida is the Executive Director of Christian Formation and a priest of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Fr. José was born in Cuba and raised in Santurce, Puerto Rico, was ordained on May 16, 1987, and received a doctorate in Moral Theology in 1998 from the Alfonsian Academy, an Institute of the Lateran University in Rome. Fr. José has served in several parishes, was Academic Dean and Rector of Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans, where he ministered for 15 years, and is also a Commander of the U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps.
Fr. Wolfgang Seitz, ORC, is originally from Ehingen, Germany. He is a member of the Order of Canons Regular of the Holy Cross, an international Order which has its Motherhouse in Tirol, Austria. The Order has the overall direction of the international apostolate, Opus Sanctorum Angelorum (Work of the Holy Angels), a public association of the faithful, whose mission is to spread devotion to the holy angels in the Church.
Fr. Seitz studied at the seminary of the Order, Institutum Sapientiae, in Anapolis, Brazil, after which he was ordained a priest in 2002. His first mission after Ordination was to Detroit, for a pastoral year at Assumption Grotto Parish. Since then, he has been giving retreats and conferences throughout the United States.
Fr. Bomukama Denis was born December 7th, 1988 in a village called Kyamuhunga, in the Archdiocese of Mbarara, west of Uganda.
He went to St. Mary’s primary school (1993-2001), where he received a certificate of Uganda Primary Leaving exams. He attended Kitabi minor Seminary for High school and joined Katigondo Major Seminary in Uganda (2008-2010) and graduated with a Diploma in social and philosophical studies and graduated, also, with a Magna cum laude Probatus with a Bachelor of Philosophy.
He went for Parish experience for one year where he joined St. Mary’s Seminary Ggaba in Uganda from 2012-15, where he graduated with a diploma and Bachelor of Theology. He was ordained a priest in July 2016. He has served in two parishes, and, while serving, due to his love for schools and teaching, he joined Kampala International University for a Diploma in Education, and, later, a Master’s degree in Theological and Religious studies from Makerere University, Uganda. He has taught in many schools and he’s currently serving as Rector of a preparatory school for young children between 8-15 years called St. Mukasa Preparatory Seminary, among the many schools where he serves as chaplain and spiritual director.
Mercy is the side God wants all of us to see! Go to Him in all situations of life. HIS MERCY HEALS AND SAVES AND I am humbled to be an instrument of God to extend His mercy to His People in my vocation as a Priest.
Monsignor John Armitage is the rector of National Shrine of Our Lady in Walsingham, UK.
Bishop Felipe J. Estévez was born Feb. 5, 1946, in Havana, Cuba and arrived in the United States on an Operation Pedro Pan flight as a teenager.
He was ordained in 1970 and has done extensive studies in spiritual theology, earning a doctorate from Gregorian University in Rome. He is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian.
From 2001 to 2003, Bishop Estévez served as spiritual director of St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, Fla. where he served as rector from 1980 to 1986. He was the pastor of St. Agatha Parish in Miami for 14 years, while also directing campus ministry at Florida International University.
Appointed Auxiliary Bishop on Nov. 21, 2003, and ordained Jan. 7, 2004, he oversaw the archdiocese’s Ministry of Pastoral Services including family life, youth, campus, prison and respect life ministries, as well as all church movements and new communities.
In 2010, he was appointed Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Miami.
On April 27, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI named Auxiliary Bishop Felipe J. Estévez the tenth Bishop of St. Augustine. He was installed on June 2, 2011, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Jacksonville.
Bishop Estévez is the second of three children (Carlos and Marty) of the late Adriano and Estrella Estévez.
7-8 PM EDT (GMT -4) Mon-Sat | 3-4 PM EDT Sunday
Topic: Day 4 of Novena-For those who do not believe in God and those who do not yet know God.
Dennis and Angelina Girard are the Directors of the Marian Devotional Movement, founders of DivineMercyRosary.com & CatholicInCanada.com; authors of Marian Consecration for Little Souls and the producers of the God’s Favored Lady Devotional DVD. They work closely with Canada’s National Marian Shrine of Our Lady of the Cape promoting enrollment in the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary and building the global Virtual Bridge of Rosaries.
Topic: Day 5 of Divine Mercy Novena – For those who have separated themselves from the Church
Monsignor John Armitage is the rector of National Shrine of Our Lady in Walsingham, UK.
Topic: Day 6 of Divine Mercy Novena – For meek and humble souls, and the souls of little children
John Preiss is President of the Fatima Family Apostolate International, founded by the late Father Robert J. Fox. The mission of the apostolate is to promote the message of Fatima and the sanctification of family life.
John is former editor of the Immaculate Heart Messenger magazine. He has been interviewed on Catholic Radio and Vatican Radio. He has appeared on EWTN Bookmark and the Jim and Joy television program. John is the author of Our Lady of Fatima: True Devotion and the children’s book The Miracle of the Dancing Sun at Fatima. His latest book, The Miracle and the Message 100 Years of Fatima was an Amazon best seller. In the past John hosted a radio program called Family Matters.
John is an adult convert to the Catholic faith. He and his wife Teresa, currently reside in Hanceville, Alabama, with their nine children.
Topic: Day 7 of Divine Mercy Novena – For souls who especially venerate and glorify God’s Mercy
Bernadette is a wife, mother and grandmother, and is employed as a dental hygienist. She is the founder of Preborn Jesus Ministry, which had its inception in 2009 with the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Through the use of beautiful, sacred artwork, the mission of the pro-life apostolate unfolds:
1. To inspire a devotion to Jesus in the Preborn aspect of His life within the womb of Mary, and
2. To promulgate a devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, His and our Mother, under the title, Ark of The New Covenant.
The sacred artwork, central to the ministry, has been used both nationally and internationally in many pro-life settings, conferences and retreats, and was highlighted in an article in The National Catholic Register and Our Sunday Visitor.
Bernadette is a member of the Legion of Mary, and is consecrated to Jesus through Mary, according to the True Devotion to Mary taught by St. Louis de Montfort. It is a great joy for Bernadette to spread a renewed devotion to Mary and honor Jesus and His Mother in the many talks she presents. Bernadette has appeared on EWTN’s Sunday Night Prime and is faithful to God’s call to speak whether with small groups or on speaker circuits like Legatus and Magnificat Prayer Breakfasts. She gives all glory to God, who awakened her faith on Good Friday 1991, when her watch stopped at 3:00 p.m., the Hour of Divine Mercy. In her words, “Sadly, it was a time in my life when I was not living my Catholic faith to the fullest. That 3:00 hour of mercy was a turning point in my life.” Then, on Divine Mercy Sunday 2009, she attended a Divine Mercy celebration in Pittsburgh. She continues, “Who said it, I do not recall, perhaps someone leading the rosary, but the following words resounded through me that day:
“There should be a greater devotion to Jesus within the womb of Mary.”
After contemplating that one statement for many days afterwards, through God’s grace, I was given the inspiration to begin Preborn Jesus Ministry.
Visit Preborn Jesus Ministry’s Website
Topic: Day 8 of Divine Mercy Novena – For the souls of Purgatory
(more info coming soon)
Topic: Day 9 of Divine Mercy Novena – For the souls that have become lukewarm
Doctor Bryan S. Thatcher, MD, of Tampa, FL, is a retired medical doctor who travels the world speaking on the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, the message of Divine Mercy, Our Lady and the gift of life, and his personal conversion. He and his wife, Susan, have seven children, ages thirty-seven to thirteen.
In 1996 he founded Eucharistic Apostles of the Divine Mercy (EADM), now a lay apostolate of the Congregation of Marians of the Immaculate Conception. EADM is now active in over forty-five countries worldwide, and the ministry has received three special personally signed Apostolic Blessings from the late Holy Father, Saint Pope John Paul II, for its work. Dr. Thatcher has traveled across the United States, Canada, as well as to Central and South America, many countries in Africa, Europe, India, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, the Solomon and the Samoan Islands to speak on God’s mercy and the great gift of the Eucharist.
He has written several books on aspects of Divine Mercy, and is currently working on “The Healing of Addictions through the message of Divine Mercy.” He hosted a series, “Cenacle of The Divine Mercy,” that aired on EWTN, has done numerous radio shows across the country, and is a frequent speaker at conferences. He recently taped several shows for a Catholic cable network in Miami
The ministry of Eucharistic Apostles promotes the notion that Divine Mercy is more than a message or devotion, rather, it is a “Way of Life.”
Topic: Feast of Divine Mercy
As a Catholic singer-songwriter and inspirational speaker, Annie Karto hopes to stir the flame in the Catholic Church through the power of God’s great gift of music. The healing mercy of God is the heart of her music ministry, along with singing of the beautiful sacraments of the Church, and honoring the Blessed Mother Mary. “I love my Catholic faith so very much and I feel it can be felt in the songs Our Lord gives me.”
Annie belongs to a lay apostolate called The Eucharistic Apostles of the Divine Mercy, which is an outreach of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception in Stockbridge, Mass. They strive to promote Eucharistic Adoration and bring the Divine Mercy message to a hurting world.
Annie has recorded 6 CDs with some to the best musicians in N.Y. city.
She has appeared on EWTN’s Backstage program, and her ministry has taken her to Europe, New Zealand, Africa, Guatemala and Trinidad. The title song of Annie’s hit CD, “Overshadow Me” won an award from UCMVA. “You are a Priest Forever” has encouraged hundreds of priests throughout the country, and has received two apostolic blessings, one from blessed Pope John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI.
Given the penance 27 years ago to spread the message of Divine Mercy, Annie travels to wherever the Lord sends her, weaving her songs in and out of her testimony. She has been a featured speaker at many major conferences throughout the country, and shares from her heart, including offering the message of hope and healing to families through Divine Mercy. Annie feels the challenge for all of us is to be a bridge of God’s love to close the gap between darkness and light, sadness and joy, despair and hope in our own families, and in our world.
Annie and her husband Dave have been married 35 years and have 4 children and 9 grandchildren. They live in Treasure Island, FL.
Zaida Vargas of New Orleans, DRC Board Member, will pray the Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet in Spanish each night at 9 PM EDT (GMT -4)
Join a different family each day at 12 PM EDT (GMT -4) for a holy hour with children:
- April 13: Keen Family | Fort Worth, TX
- April 14: Gessler Family | Steubenville, OH
- April 15: Tores-Sanchez Family | New Orleans, LA (In Spanish)
- April 16: Seeley Family | Finksburg, MD
- April 17: Howard Family | Sagle, ID
- April 18: Crepeault Family | Ottawa, Canada
- April 19: Thatcher Family | Tampa, FL
As you pray along with your family at home, use these coloring pages courtesy of the Gessler family:
4 PM EDT (GMT -4) Divine Mercy Sunday Mass
10 AM EDT Mon-Sat
Fr. Francis Dankoski is the Spiritual Director of Diocesan Rosary Congresses and serves in the Diocese of Steubenville.
Fr. Francis Dankoski is the Spiritual Director of Diocesan Rosary Congresses and serves in the Diocese of Steubenville.
The Very Reverend José I. Lavastida is the Executive Director of Christian Formation and a priest of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Fr. José was born in Cuba and raised in Santurce, Puerto Rico, was ordained on May 16, 1987, and received a doctorate in Moral Theology in 1998 from the Alfonsian Academy, an Institute of the Lateran University in Rome. Fr. José has served in several parishes, was Academic Dean and Rector of Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans, where he ministered for 15 years, and is also a Commander of the U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps.
Fr. Wolfgang Seitz, ORC, is originally from Ehingen, Germany. He is a member of the Order of Canons Regular of the Holy Cross, an international Order which has its Motherhouse in Tirol, Austria. The Order has the overall direction of the international apostolate, Opus Sanctorum Angelorum (Work of the Holy Angels), a public association of the faithful, whose mission is to spread devotion to the holy angels in the Church.
Fr. Seitz studied at the seminary of the Order, Institutum Sapientiae, in Anapolis, Brazil, after which he was ordained a priest in 2002. His first mission after Ordination was to Detroit, for a pastoral year at Assumption Grotto Parish. Since then, he has been giving retreats and conferences throughout the United States.
Fr. Bomukama Denis was born December 7th, 1988 in a village called Kyamuhunga, in the Archdiocese of Mbarara, west of Uganda.
He went to St. Mary’s primary school (1993-2001), where he received a certificate of Uganda Primary Leaving exams. He attended Kitabi minor Seminary for High school and joined Katigondo Major Seminary in Uganda (2008-2010) and graduated with a Diploma in social and philosophical studies and graduated, also, with a Magna cum laude Probatus with a Bachelor of Philosophy.
He went for Parish experience for one year where he joined St. Mary’s Seminary Ggaba in Uganda from 2012-15, where he graduated with a diploma and Bachelor of Theology. He was ordained a priest in July 2016. He has served in two parishes, and, while serving, due to his love for schools and teaching, he joined Kampala International University for a Diploma in Education, and, later, a Master’s degree in Theological and Religious studies from Makerere University, Uganda. He has taught in many schools and he’s currently serving as Rector of a preparatory school for young children between 8-15 years called St. Mukasa Preparatory Seminary, among the many schools where he serves as chaplain and spiritual director.
Mercy is the side God wants all of us to see! Go to Him in all situations of life. HIS MERCY HEALS AND SAVES AND I am humbled to be an instrument of God to extend His mercy to His People in my vocation as a Priest.
Monsignor John Armitage is the rector of National Shrine of Our Lady in Walsingham, UK.
Bishop Felipe J. Estévez was born Feb. 5, 1946, in Havana, Cuba and arrived in the United States on an Operation Pedro Pan flight as a teenager.
He was ordained in 1970 and has done extensive studies in spiritual theology, earning a doctorate from Gregorian University in Rome. He is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian.
From 2001 to 2003, Bishop Estévez served as spiritual director of St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, Fla. where he served as rector from 1980 to 1986. He was the pastor of St. Agatha Parish in Miami for 14 years, while also directing campus ministry at Florida International University.
Appointed Auxiliary Bishop on Nov. 21, 2003, and ordained Jan. 7, 2004, he oversaw the archdiocese’s Ministry of Pastoral Services including family life, youth, campus, prison and respect life ministries, as well as all church movements and new communities.
In 2010, he was appointed Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Miami.
On April 27, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI named Auxiliary Bishop Felipe J. Estévez the tenth Bishop of St. Augustine. He was installed on June 2, 2011, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Jacksonville.
Bishop Estévez is the second of three children (Carlos and Marty) of the late Adriano and Estrella Estévez.
7-8 PM EDT (GMT -4) Mon-Sat | 3-4 PM EDT Sunday
Topic: Day 4 of Novena-For those who do not believe in God and those who do not yet know God.
Dennis and Angelina Girard are the Directors of the Marian Devotional Movement, founders of DivineMercyRosary.com & CatholicInCanada.com; authors of Marian Consecration for Little Souls and the producers of the God’s Favored Lady Devotional DVD. They work closely with Canada’s National Marian Shrine of Our Lady of the Cape promoting enrollment in the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary and building the global Virtual Bridge of Rosaries.
Topic: Day 5 of Divine Mercy Novena – For those who have separated themselves from the Church
Monsignor John Armitage is the rector of National Shrine of Our Lady in Walsingham, UK.
Topic: Day 6 of Divine Mercy Novena – For meek and humble souls, and the souls of little children
John Preiss is President of the Fatima Family Apostolate International, founded by the late Father Robert J. Fox. The mission of the apostolate is to promote the message of Fatima and the sanctification of family life.
John is former editor of the Immaculate Heart Messenger magazine. He has been interviewed on Catholic Radio and Vatican Radio. He has appeared on EWTN Bookmark and the Jim and Joy television program. John is the author of Our Lady of Fatima: True Devotion and the children’s book The Miracle of the Dancing Sun at Fatima. His latest book, The Miracle and the Message 100 Years of Fatima was an Amazon best seller. In the past John hosted a radio program called Family Matters.
John is an adult convert to the Catholic faith. He and his wife Teresa, currently reside in Hanceville, Alabama, with their nine children.
Topic: Day 7 of Divine Mercy Novena – For souls who especially venerate and glorify God’s Mercy
Bernadette is a wife, mother and grandmother, and is employed as a dental hygienist. She is the founder of Preborn Jesus Ministry, which had its inception in 2009 with the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Through the use of beautiful, sacred artwork, the mission of the pro-life apostolate unfolds:
1. To inspire a devotion to Jesus in the Preborn aspect of His life within the womb of Mary, and
2. To promulgate a devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, His and our Mother, under the title, Ark of The New Covenant.
The sacred artwork, central to the ministry, has been used both nationally and internationally in many pro-life settings, conferences and retreats, and was highlighted in an article in The National Catholic Register and Our Sunday Visitor.
Bernadette is a member of the Legion of Mary, and is consecrated to Jesus through Mary, according to the True Devotion to Mary taught by St. Louis de Montfort. It is a great joy for Bernadette to spread a renewed devotion to Mary and honor Jesus and His Mother in the many talks she presents. Bernadette has appeared on EWTN’s Sunday Night Prime and is faithful to God’s call to speak whether with small groups or on speaker circuits like Legatus and Magnificat Prayer Breakfasts. She gives all glory to God, who awakened her faith on Good Friday 1991, when her watch stopped at 3:00 p.m., the Hour of Divine Mercy. In her words, “Sadly, it was a time in my life when I was not living my Catholic faith to the fullest. That 3:00 hour of mercy was a turning point in my life.” Then, on Divine Mercy Sunday 2009, she attended a Divine Mercy celebration in Pittsburgh. She continues, “Who said it, I do not recall, perhaps someone leading the rosary, but the following words resounded through me that day:
“There should be a greater devotion to Jesus within the womb of Mary.”
After contemplating that one statement for many days afterwards, through God’s grace, I was given the inspiration to begin Preborn Jesus Ministry.
Visit Preborn Jesus Ministry’s Website
Topic: Day 8 of Divine Mercy Novena – For the souls of Purgatory
(more info coming soon)
Topic: Day 9 of Divine Mercy Novena – For the souls that have become lukewarm
Doctor Bryan S. Thatcher, MD, of Tampa, FL, is a retired medical doctor who travels the world speaking on the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, the message of Divine Mercy, Our Lady and the gift of life, and his personal conversion. He and his wife, Susan, have seven children, ages thirty-seven to thirteen.
In 1996 he founded Eucharistic Apostles of the Divine Mercy (EADM), now a lay apostolate of the Congregation of Marians of the Immaculate Conception. EADM is now active in over forty-five countries worldwide, and the ministry has received three special personally signed Apostolic Blessings from the late Holy Father, Saint Pope John Paul II, for its work. Dr. Thatcher has traveled across the United States, Canada, as well as to Central and South America, many countries in Africa, Europe, India, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, the Solomon and the Samoan Islands to speak on God’s mercy and the great gift of the Eucharist.
He has written several books on aspects of Divine Mercy, and is currently working on “The Healing of Addictions through the message of Divine Mercy.” He hosted a series, “Cenacle of The Divine Mercy,” that aired on EWTN, has done numerous radio shows across the country, and is a frequent speaker at conferences. He recently taped several shows for a Catholic cable network in Miami
The ministry of Eucharistic Apostles promotes the notion that Divine Mercy is more than a message or devotion, rather, it is a “Way of Life.”
Topic: Feast of Divine Mercy
As a Catholic singer-songwriter and inspirational speaker, Annie Karto hopes to stir the flame in the Catholic Church through the power of God’s great gift of music. The healing mercy of God is the heart of her music ministry, along with singing of the beautiful sacraments of the Church, and honoring the Blessed Mother Mary. “I love my Catholic faith so very much and I feel it can be felt in the songs Our Lord gives me.”
Annie belongs to a lay apostolate called The Eucharistic Apostles of the Divine Mercy, which is an outreach of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception in Stockbridge, Mass. They strive to promote Eucharistic Adoration and bring the Divine Mercy message to a hurting world.
Annie has recorded 6 CDs with some to the best musicians in N.Y. city.
She has appeared on EWTN’s Backstage program, and her ministry has taken her to Europe, New Zealand, Africa, Guatemala and Trinidad. The title song of Annie’s hit CD, “Overshadow Me” won an award from UCMVA. “You are a Priest Forever” has encouraged hundreds of priests throughout the country, and has received two apostolic blessings, one from blessed Pope John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI.
Given the penance 27 years ago to spread the message of Divine Mercy, Annie travels to wherever the Lord sends her, weaving her songs in and out of her testimony. She has been a featured speaker at many major conferences throughout the country, and shares from her heart, including offering the message of hope and healing to families through Divine Mercy. Annie feels the challenge for all of us is to be a bridge of God’s love to close the gap between darkness and light, sadness and joy, despair and hope in our own families, and in our world.
Annie and her husband Dave have been married 35 years and have 4 children and 9 grandchildren. They live in Treasure Island, FL.
Join a different family each day at 12 PM EDT (GMT -4) for a holy hour with children:
- April 13: Keen Family | Fort Worth, TX
- April 14: Gessler Family | Steubenville, OH
- April 15: Tores-Sanchez Family | New Orleans, LA (In Spanish)
- April 16: Seeley Family | Finksburg, MD
- April 17: Howard Family | Sagle, ID
- April 18: Crepeault Family | Ottawa, Canada
- April 19: Thatcher Family | Tampa, FL
As you pray along with your family at home, use these coloring pages courtesy of the Gessler family: