Virtual Rosary Congress
March 25-31, 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 St. Mary’s Parish in Navan, Ireland, or using another Eucharistic Adoration live stream from anywhere around the world! Sign up below to commit to a virtual holy hour! The 7 PM EDT (GMT -4) hour will be our speaker.
Rosary
Every Hour on the Hour
Pray the Rosary 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. In addition to the Rosary, please pray Pope Francis’s prayer to end COVID-19:
Speakers
7-8 PM EDT (GMT -4) Each Evening
Fr. Francis Dankoski will lead the Rosary for this hour.
Fr. Francis Dankoski is the Spiritual Director of Diocesan Rosary Congresses and serves in the Diocese of Steubenville.
Topic: Our Lady of All Nations
Dr. Mark Miravalle earned his Sacred Theological Doctorate at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. He holds the Saint John Paul II Chair of Mariology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he has been teaching since 1986.
Dr. Miravalle is the founder and senior editor of Ecce Mater Tua, an international journal of Mariology research. He is also president of the International Marian Association, comprised of more than 130 theologians, bishops, clergy, and laity worldwide who seek to promote Marian devotion and doctrine.
Well known throughout the world for his lectures on Mariology, Dr. Miravalle has addressed several episcopal conferences, including those of South India, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Costa Rica. He has also assisted bishops with preliminary investigations into reported apparitions.
Dr. Miravalle has spoken at numerous international conferences and has appeared on EWTN, National Public Radio, BBC, and Fox News.
Dr. Miravalle is the author and editor of over 20 books in Mariology and Spiritual Theology, including his most recent works, Meet Your Mother: An Introduction to Mary; Meet Your Spiritual Father: An Introduction to St. Joseph; Time to Meet the Angels, and Jesus In You: The Indwelling Trinity in the Souls of the Just.
Topic: Fulton Sheen, Fatima and the Fate of the World
Dr. Peter Howard lives in the mountains of northern Idaho, residing with his beautiful wife, Chantal, and their five beautiful children. Peter and Chantal are passionate about Catholic entrepreneurship, natural health care for Catholics and an integrated approach to evangelization. Learn more about this life-changing opportunity by checking out their aromaRosary Wellness initiative (aromarosarywellness.com) and their increasingly popular aromaRosary (aromarosary.com).
Peter is an expert in the teachings of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, Mariologist, Catholic entrepreneur, renown international speaker, author, professor, and theologian. Peter has spoken at national, diocesan and family conferences in the United States and Philippines; the United States Air Force Academy; the Apostolate for Family Consecration; diocesan and parish retreats and he has been featured on Catholic television and radio programs such as EWTN, Catholic Answers Live, the Patrick Madrid Show, CatholicTV, Shalom World, Radio Maria and Relevant Radio.
Dr. Howard has served as a professor of theology for the Avila Institute for Spiritual Formation (avila-institute.org). Dr. Howard earned his Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas [Angelicum] in Rome, Italy. Peter is a member of the International Marian Association and author of the 2015 book: The Woman: The Mystery of Mary as Mediatrix in the Teaching of Fulton J. Sheen.
Topic: Divine Mercy for America
Dave and Joan Maroney are directors of Mother of Mercy Messengers, or MOMM, an Apostolate of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception from the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Since 1999, Dave and Joan have been on the vanguard of the New Evangelization creatively sharing the fullness of the Catholic faith and the Divine Mercy message and devotion at roughly 1000 parishes, schools and conferences throughout the United States and beyond. They have been featured on EWTN, Relevant Radio, Radio Maria, Guadalupe Radio and many other Catholic radio shows as well.
In 2012 they launched the Divine Mercy for America prayer campaign which has now built a network of thousands of faith-filled citizens across the world praying and sacrificing for their native land as St. Faustina was directed to do for hers.
Dave and Joan are proud of their three adult children and their spouses and love to spend as much time as possible with their 7 absolutely wonderful grandchildren. When not on
the road they live and operate their apostolate from their semi-rural home near San Antonio, Texas.
Topic: Living the High Life
Fr. Richard M. Heilman is a priest of the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin State Chaplain for the Knights of Columbus. He is a regular guest host on Relevant Radio’s The Inner Life, and is the founder of the Knights of Divine Mercy, which is an apostolate for Catholic men’s faith formation.. He is also he founder of the Ladies of Divine Mercy, which is an apostolate for Catholic women’s faith formation. He is the author of the Church Militant Field Manual and the Roman Catholic Man website, which are both dedicated to helping Catholics understand and train for their role in the mission of combating evil and rescuing the souls of our loved ones who have lost the precious gift of faith.
Bishop Mark Brennan, Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, WV.
Topic: The Lessons we can learn from the Angel of Fatima to transform this time of trial into a time of grace
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.
Topic: Understanding the Cross: Why Jesus Had to Die to Save Us
Matthew Leonard is an international speaker, author, podcaster, and founder of Next Level Catholic Academy (www.NextLevelCatholicAcademy.com), an online membership community focused on teaching Catholic spirituality.
An accomplished filmmaker, he has written, produced, directed, and hosted multiple best-selling Catholic video series such as the Bible and the Virgin Mary and Genesis to Jesus, which have been translated into almost a dozen languages.
A convert to Catholicism and former missionary to Latin America, Matthew is a frequent guest on radio and television programs across the country. His podcast “The Art of Catholic,” is heard in more than 180 countries around the world.
Matthew holds a Masters in Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville and is the author of two books, Louder Than Words: The Art of Living as a Catholic and Prayer Works! Getting A Grip On Catholic Spirituality.
He lives in Ohio with his wife Veronica and their six children. Learn more about him at MatthewSLeonard.com.