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Fr. Tom
Weinandy
St. Francis Friary
(Capuchin College)
Capuchin Friars
Washington, D.C.
Fr. Tom Weinandy is a theologian with around 40 years of teaching experience. He taught for 12 years at the University of Oxford and served as head of the Secretariat for Doctrine at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for 9 years. A prolific author, he has written about 20 books and hundreds of articles.
Fr. Matthias Lambrecht
Mount St. Joseph Carmelite Monastery
Discalced Carmelites
San Jose, CA
Originally from Washington state, Father Matthias entered the monastery early into his professional career, leaving a rock band to join the Carmelite province of St. Joseph. He wrote his masters thesis on the universal call to contemplation & enjoys sharing the contemplative life with others, especially college students. Father Matthias loves spending time in nature & with his community.
Fr. John
Bayer
Our Lady of Dallas
Cistercians
Irving TX
Fr. John Bayer is a monk and priest at Our Lady of Dallas. He joined the Cistercian monastery in 2007, made his solemn profession in 2012, and was ordained in 2013. He teaches at Cistercian Preparatory School and the University of Dallas, and completed his doctorate on St. Anselm at the Pontifical Gregorian University in 2019. He loves backpacking, studying and healthy vegetable dishes (though he is not vegetarian :) )
Fr. Malachy
Napier
St. Crispin Friary
Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CFRs)
Bronx, New York
Fr. Malachy made his final vows in 2014 and was ordained in May 2020. His first three years of priesthood were in the CFRs’ mission in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, where his principal work was with young people and prisoners. He was one of over 50 priests appointed to speak at the National Eucharistic Congress. Even though he is far from his southern roots in Georgia he remains a loyal UGA fan.
Sr. María
Gonzalo-García
Our Lady of the Angels
Trappist-Cistercians
Crozet, VA
Sr. María serves as Novice Director and cheese production manager at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, in Crozet, Virginia. She is an author and medieval scholar.
As a child, she dreamed of being a writer and contributing to making the world a better place. When she was asked what she was going to be when she grew up, annoyed by the question, she would reply, “I’m going to marry a very wealthy man.” Little did she know that God’s Providence for her would surpass her wildest expectations.
Abbot Jeremy Driscoll
Mount Angel Abbey
Benedictines
St. Benedict, Oregon
Abbot Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, is the 12th abbot of Mount Angel Abbey, elected by the community in March of 2016. Abbot Jeremy made his first profession in the community on September 8, 1974, and was ordained a priest in 1981.
During his years in the community, Fr. Jeremy taught theology at Mount Angel Seminary and at Sant’ Anselmo in Rome. As Abbot, he continues to teach at Mount Ange seminary. He also continues to serve on various Vatican commissions, conducts conferences and retreats throughout the United States (and beyond), and continues to write and publish. On January 11, 2025, Pope Francis announced his appointment of Abbot Jeremy as a member of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Fr. Robert Barcelos
Mount St. Joseph Carmelite Monastery
Discalced Carmelites
San Jose, CA
Fr. Robert came to know the life-changing Love of Jesus for the first time at the age of nineteen. Much to his surprise the love of Christ seized his heart while attending Mass for the first time after having had rejected the Catholic faith of his childhood upbringing. This divine encounter won him over and ignited a new fire of desire in his passion for life. The conversion became gradually deeper until it manifest in the discovery of a calling to be a Carmelite priest.
Apart from his ministry, father is passionate about certain styles of art & music, professional football, long boarding by the beach, sunsets over the ocean, fellowship before a fire, mountain top vistas, favorite food is Hawaiian pizza with a side of sardines, and his favorite color is metallic orange representing the seraphic spirit of the saints of Carmel.
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