Confirmed Speakers

(in alphabetical order)

Speaker — "Understanding What We Are Doing: Toward a More Active and Prayerful Participation in the Mass"

Fr. Dwyer is a Paulist priest, best-selling author and award-winning radio and TV host. He currently serves on the presidential leadership team of the Paulist Fathers and is the Executive Director of Busted Halo Ministries, a media outreach that aims to help young people grow in and share their Catholic faith. He hosts "The Busted Halo Show," a radio talk show hear five nights a week on the Catholic Channel, SiriusXM Ch. 129 (listen to the podcast). He co-hosts the weekly program, "Conversation with Cardinal Dolan," seen on EWTN, Catholic Faith Network and other platforms. His first book, "Mass Class: Your Questions Answered," from Paulist Press, was ranked #1 on Amazon's Christian charts even before its official release. The Catholic Media Association recently bestowed on Fr. Dave its inaugural Gabriel Award for Personal Achievement. He is featured in the book, "New York Catholics: Faith, Attitude and the Works!," alongside Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day and Regis Philbin. A native of Long Island, NY, he studied mass communications at Syracuse University and later produced and directed television shows for HBO, MTV and Comedy Central. As a priest, Fr. Dave has worked in campus ministry at the Universities of Colorado and Texas, and has developed young adult ministry programs for the Archdiocese for the Military Services. He currently lives and celebrates Mass at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City. For more, visit his pages on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest and LinkedIn.

Speaker — "Adoration: Fulfilling Our Vocation to Love" ("Adoración: Cumpliendo Nuestra Vocación de Amor")

Bishop Joseph A. Espaillat II, an Auxiliary Bishop of New York, is currently the Episcopal Vicar of the Bronx and Pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Church. Before being ordained a bishop on March 1, 2022, he was the Director of the Hispanic Catholic Charismatic Center and the Spiritual Director of the Hispanic Charismatic Renewal of the Archdiocese of New York. In 2012 Cardinal Dolan asked him to found the Office of Youth Ministry for the Archdiocese of New York. Prior to priestly ordination, he obtained a Masters of Divinity degree in theology and a Master of Arts degree in theology (specializing in Church History) from St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, NY. After God, his passion has been working with young people for the past 30 years and helping them encounter Christ. He is also the founder of the ministry Messengers of Christ. 

Speaker — "Bread of Angels, Gift of Baptism, Promise of Life: The Eucharistic Fulfillment of God’s Desire"

A priest of the Diocese of Albany, Father Fragomeni has since 1990 taught at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago where he is associate professor of liturgy and preaching and chairperson of the Department of Word and Worship. He is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University and has also served as the Rector of The Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, an Italian-American spiritual center in Chicago’s historic Little Italy. In addition to his teaching duties he is a preacher of parish missions and gives presentations nationally and internationally on liturgical, sacramental, and catechetical topics. He completed his S.T.B in theology and M.A. in religious studies at the University of Louvain, Belgium. He earned a second M.A., a M.M. in vocal performance, and a Ph.D. in Sacramental Theology at The Catholic University of America. He is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy and the Catholic Theological Society of America.

Speaker — "The Need for a Eucharistic Revival"

Tim Glemkowski is the Executive Director of the National Eucharistic Congress. Previously, he served in the Archbishop’s Office for the Archdiocese of Denver as the Director of Strategy, helping to set up the archdiocese for a time of apostolic mission. He is the former founder and president of L'Alto Catholic Institute and Revive Parishes. Tim authored Made for Mission: Renewing Your Parish Culture, which was released in Fall 2019 through Our Sunday Visitor. He is an international speaker who has also consulted for many organizations, dioceses, and parishes. His writing has appeared in numerous print and web-based theological and catechetical publications. Tim and his wife, Maggie, live in Littleton, CO with their three young children

Speaker — "The Eucharistic Heart of a Father"

Patrick E. Kelly is the 14th Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization, with more than 2 million members internationally. Mr. Kelly previously served as Deputy Supreme Knight and Vice President for Public Policy for 11 years. He was the first executive director of the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C. Prior to his leadership roles in the Knights, he was Senior Advisor to the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom at the State Department. He also held legal advisory roles on the House Intelligence Committee and in the Department of Justice, where he specialized in counterterrorism and national security. Mr. Kelly served in the United States Navy for 24 years as a Judge Advocate General, as Commanding Officer of the international law unit at the U.S. Naval War College, on the staff of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations and aboard the USS Guam as the Staff Judge Advocate for Amphibious Squadron Two. He serves as consultant to the USCCB's Committees on Pro-life Activities, on Religious Liberty, on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, and Against Racism of the United States Conference. He was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the March for Life from 2012-2021. He holds a master’s degree in theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at CUA, a law degree from Marquette University Law School and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Marquette. He and his wife, Vanessa, have three daughters and live in Connecticut.

Speaker — "The Eucharist as the Remedy and Response to Secularism"

Dr. Peter Kreeft is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and the author of almost one hundred books. His many bestsellers cover a vast array of topics in spirituality, theology, and philosophy. They include Making Sense of Suffering, Because God Is Real, Angels and Demons, Heaven: The Heart’s Deepest Longing, Summa of the Summa, Christianity for Modern Pagans,and How to Destroy Western Civilization. He loves his five grandchildren, four children, one wife, one cat, and one God. He earned a A.B. from Calvin College (1959), an M.A. in philosophy (1961) and a Ph.D. in philosophy (1965) from Fordham University. He has also done post-graduate studies in philosophy at Yale University. He and his wife reside in the Archdiocese of Boston. His personal website, containing many free audio recordings and articles, is www.peterkreeft.com

Emcee

Father Roger J. Landry, a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, serves as Catholic Chaplain to Columbia University in New York City and to the Thomas Merton Institute for Catholic Life. He is also Ecclesiastical Assistant to Aid to the Church in Need USA, a Papal Missionary of Mercy, a National Eucharistic Preacher for the USCCB’s National Eucharistic Revival, Chaplain to the New York Chapter of the Leonine Forum, and a Member of the Board of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Martyrs in Auriesville, New York. A graduate of Harvard College (1992) and the Pontifical North American College in Rome (1999), he served as Attaché to the Holy See’s Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations in New York (2015-2022), and has been a pastor, newspaper editor and high school chaplain in the Diocese of Fall River. He writes for many publications, appears regularly on television and radio, and is the author of Plan of Life: Habits to Help You Grow Closer to God (Pauline Books and Media 2018). His homilies, articles, retreats, conferences, educational videos and other offerings are available for free at catholicpreaching.com.

Saturday Mass Homilist

Speaker — "My Defense and Shield and Strength and Salvation”: The Eucharist in the lives of our American Woman Saints" 

Lisa Lickona became Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Saint Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry in Rochester, New York,  in 2021 after an eight-year stint as Editor for Saints at Magnificat. Her work focuses on the intersection of holiness and life as expressed in the lives of the saints and the Church’s theological anthropology. Lisa is co-editor of The Relevance of the Stars: Christ, Culture, Destiny by Lorenzo Albacete, a regular essayist for the Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Shrine, and research director for a new audio adventure series on the saints produced by The Merry Beggars at Relevant Radio. She earned her B.A. at the University of Notre Dame and holds the Masters in Theological Studies and Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. She has lived with her large family in the Finger Lakes region of New York for almost twenty years.

Speaker — "The Incredible Gift of Eucharistic Adoration"

Mother Clare Matthiass, CFR, is the General Servant (Superior) of the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal and is the author of the popular book Discerning Religious Life as well as the new children’s book series Little Convent in the Big City. Mother Clare has been a member of the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal since 1998. The two-fold apostolic mission of the Community is hands-on work with the poor and evangelization. She became General Servant (Superior) in 2018. Mother Clare lives at Our Lady Queen of Angels Convent in East Harlem. The CFR Sisters currently have three convents in New York City, missions in Leeds, England; Drogheda, Ireland; and, in Atlantic City, NJ, as well as Sisters serving the Holy Father at the Vatican Secretariat of State. She also helps to spearhead bringing religious sisters to young Catholic students in a program called The Little Convent. 

Speaker — "Fostering Eucharistic Love Within the Family"

Katie Prejean McGrady is a speaker, award winning author, and host of The Katie McGrady Show on The Catholic Channel on Sirius XM. Katie hosts three podcasts: Ave Explores, from Ave Maria Press, Like a Mother, with Our Sunday Visitor, and Family Mass Prep, on Hallow. She’s an op-ed columnist for La Croix International, a regular writer for Our Sunday Visitor, Aleteia, and Blessed is She. Katie represented the USCCB at the Pre-Synod gathering of youth and young adults in the Spring of 2018 and serves as a member of the working group on youth and young adult ministry for the USCCB. Katie has hosted the National Catholic Youth Conference, Steubenville Conferences, spoken in 43 states and 7 countries, and her podcasts and radio shows have been listened to by millions. Katie lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana with her husband and daughters. Her website is www.katieprejeanmcgrady.com. 

Speaker — "Saint Francis of Assisi and the Furnace of Charity"

Fr. Malachy is a priest of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal and one of 56 National Eucharistic Preachers appointed by the US Bishops for the National Eucharistic Revival. Originally from Augusta, Georgia, the second of eight children of Bill and Cynthia Napier, he joined the Community of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal in 2008, making his final vows in 2014, and being ordained to the priesthood in 2020. His first three years of priesthood were in the CFRs' mission in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, where his principal work was with youth and prisoners. He earned bachelor’s degrees in English literature and Spanish from Augusta University before studying for the priesthood at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Dunwoodie.

Speaker — "Heart to Heart: Jesus' Eucharistic Heart and Ours"

Mari Pablo grew up in a devout, supportive, boisterous Hispanic family in South Florida. She graduated from Franciscan University with a double major in theology and psychology and also holds a Master of Theology from the Augustine Institute. She has worked in youth ministry for over 15 years, including being a youth minister in New Orleans and a high school theology teacher in Miami. She is currently serving parishes and universities across the country with The Evangelical Catholic. Mari is a presenter for Ascension Press in numerous projects including the YOU (Theology of the Body program for teens), The 99 (an evangelization mission series), Connected: Catholic Social Teaching for this Generation, Bible Timeline, Chosen (Confirmation) and Ascension Presents. Mari is well known for her dynamic presentations at the annual Steubenville Youth Conferences, NCYC, NET, Life Teen events, FOCUS conference, diocesan events and more. Her website is maripablo.com. 

Sunday Mass Principal Celebrant and Homilist

The Most Rev. Edward B. Scharfenberger was appointed by Pope Francis the Bishop of Albany on February 11, 2014. He is a native of Brooklyn, and was ordained a priest on July 2, 1973. He earned a licentiate in sacred theology from the Academy of St. Alphonsus in 1977, a licentiate in Canon Law from Catholic University of America in 1980, a Juris Doctor of Law degree from Fordham University in 1990, and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1991. In the Diocese of Brooklyn, among other assignments, he served as pastor and judicial vicar. He presently serves as a Consultor to the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews as well as on the following committees and councils of the USCCB: National Advisory Council, Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, Administrative Committee, Committee on Priorities and Plans, and Subcommittee on the Church Africa.