Speakers
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sam Blair
"Re-Engage"Sam is a former Navy SEAL officer with over a decade of experience leading the most elite teams around the globe. After holding leadership positions on multiple SEAL teams, he taught Leadership and Ethics at the United States Naval Academy. Sam has traveled to over 50 countries and deployed to Africa, the Middle East, and South
America. Before transitioning from Active Duty, Sam was a SkillBridge Fellow at a venture capital firm in Baltimore, Maryland. Upon exiting the military Sam built and sold The Frassati Company, a firm which was built to help executives and teams create healthy cultures, and foster effective enterprise communication. Today Sam is the CEO of Valletta Industries a government contracting company doing work across the United States and internationally.
Sam holds an MBA from Cornell University, a leadership certificate from Georgetown University, an executive certification from MIT with a focus on building, leading and sustaining the innovative organization, and an undergraduate degree in Theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Sam and his incredible wife Lauren and their three children (to include number four on the way) are proud parishioners of Saint Peter's Parish in Covington, Louisiana.
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artie Boyle
"Sidelined-
Six Months to Live"Arthur “Artie” Boyle was just a regular Hockey Dad, and the father of 13 children from Hingham, Massachusetts when a dreadful diagnosis led him to Medjugorje and a miraculous healing in the year 2000.
Artie has spoken to thousands of people in North and South America and all over Europe as well, and is currently employed as a development officer for the Archdiocese of Boston.
What would you do- what would you change- if you learned that you had Six Months to Live?
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Fr. Donald calloway
"No turning back: A witness to mercy"Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, a convert to Catholicism, is a member of the
Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception. Before his conversion to Catholicism, he was a high school dropout who had been kicked out of a foreign country, institutionalized twice, and thrown in jail multiple times.
After his radical conversion he earned a B.A. in Philosophy and Theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, M.Div. and S.T.B. degrees from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, and an S.T.L. in Mariology from the International Marian Research Institute in Dayton, Ohio.
He is the author of 15 books, including Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father. He is a well-known conference speaker on Divine Mercy, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St . Joseph, and speaks passionately about these topics in his moving conversion story. He leads pilgrimages to Catholic shrines around the world and resides at the Marian House of Studies in Steubenville, Ohio.
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Fr. Derek Mobilio
"his mercy endures forever: the sacrament of reconciliation"Fr. Derek Mobilio is a priest of the Diocese of Worcester currently serving as associate pastor of Our Lady of Hope Parish in Grafton.
He also serves as chaplain to the Catholic students of Worcester
State University and as chaplain for the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) Missionaries of Team Worcester.Fr. Mobilio was born and raised in the diocese. He attended Our
Lady of the Angels Elementary School and graduated from St. Peter-Marian High School in 2008. He completed his seminary formation at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton. He was ordained by Bishop McManus in 2022.
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dr. edward sri
"The Art of living"Dr. Edward Sri is a theologian, author, and well-known Catholic Speaker, who presents to thousands of people from around the world each year, including clergy, parish leaders, catechists, and laity.
He is a founding leader with Curtis Martin of FOCUS (Fellowship Of Catholic University Students) where he currently serves as Senior Vice President of Apostolic Outreach, and is the host of the acclaimed podcast “All Things Catholic “.
He holds a doctorate from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, and is an adjunct professor at the Augustine Institute.
Dr. Sri resides with his wife, Elizabeth and their eight children in Littleton, Colorado.
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Bishop Robert J. McManus
Bishop Robert J. McManus was born in Providence on July 5, 1951 and
ordained to the priesthood on May 27, 1978. Following ordination, he served as temporary assistant chaplain at St. Joseph Hospital (1978), associate pastor at St. Matthew Parish in Cranston (1978-81) and associate pastor at St. Anthony Parish in Providence (1981-82). From 1982 to 1984 he was the Catholic chaplain at the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) in Warwick while continuing in residence at St. Anthony. He pursued advanced studies in theology in Rome from 1984 to 1987. While still in doctoral studies in Rome, he was named director of the diocesan Office of Ministerial Formation on July 1, 1986, and in July 1987 he returned to the diocese and took up residence at St. Luke Parish in Barrington.
Bishop McManus became diocesan Vicar for Education on November 9, 1987 while continuing as director of the Office of Ministerial Formation and in-residence at St. Luke. On October 4, 1990, he assumed the additional duty as theological consultant and editorial writer for The Providence Visitor newspaper. He was appointed a Prelate of Honor to His Holiness with the title of Monsignor on February 28, 1997. He was named rector of Our Lady of Providence Seminary on June 26, 1998 while continuing his duties as Vicar for Education and Director of Ministerial Formation. At the same time he left St. Luke for residence at the seminary and assumed responsibility for weekend assistance at St. Margaret Parish in Rumford. Bishop McManus was ordained as Titular Bishop of Allegheny and Auxiliary Bishop of Providence on February 22, 1999 and he continued to serve as Secretary for Ministerial Formation and Rector of Our Lady of Providence Seminary for some time.
Pope John Paul II named Bishop McManus as the Fifth Bishop of Worcester and he was installed on May 14, 2004.
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