In 2006 a previous US Ambassador to the Vatican and the then US Secretary of Veterans Affairs came to our Convention to give two presentations. They are both included below. On October 16, 2003, Pope John Paul II named the Honorable James Nicholson a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Pius IX. The Grand Cross is the highest papal award given to a layman who is not a head of state. Jim Nicholson was born during the Great Depression in 1938, the third child of seven, and raised on a tenant farm in Struble, Iowa. Like most poor
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In 2006 Father Peter Girard gave three presentations at our convention. He gave the opening address at our convention that year when he spoke about  “Accepting the Cross”. The next day his presentation was entitled  “Why St Dominic Wept” and his final talk was entitled “Our Cross Day by Day”.  Video recordings of these talks as below.    
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Fr. Al Winshman, S.J. – of Boston, Massachusetts, spoke at our 2006 Eucharistic Convention giving two presentations. His first talk was entitled “Our Lady and the Cross” and his second “Our Cross our Gift”.  Video recordings of bot these talks are listed below.
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In this presentation Father Homeming talks about St Terese and Carmelite spirituality. Fr Greg Homeming was born in Sydney. He is an Australian of Chinese grandparents. After completing high school he took degrees in Economics and Law at the University of Sydney. After working as a lawyer in a Sydney law firm for five years, Greg Homeming made a massive change in lifestyle when in 1985 he joined the Discalced Carmelite Friars, a contemplative Roman Catholic religious order. He completed his novitiate training in 1987 and went on to obtain his theology degree at the Melbourne College of Divinity and
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Maia Rose is the ‘miracle baby’ of the Eucharistic Convention. Born to Daniel and Melanie Scott in 2005 little Maia Rose was an absolute delight as first born to the Scott family. Not long married, the good Lord blessed Daniel and Melanie with this delightful little daughter whose arrival into the world was awaited with great expectation by her doting parents, her excited grand parents and extended family. In addition to Maia Rose’s relatives, there were friends galore around the world waiting expectantly for this delightful new arrival to make her presence felt in the world. “Hurrah; the babe is
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In 2006 Grant Somerville spoke about prayer and the Chaplet of Mercy as written in the diary of St Faustina. Grant shares some lovely insights into St Faustina’s work. This video is a “must view” for serious students of the Divine Mercy devotion.  
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In 2006 Monsignor Paul Cronin gave the homily during the Sunday Mass that weekend. This venerable priest of God gave a very special homily at every Mass he celebrated – watch this video and you will see what I mean. John Porteous
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In 2006 local man Len Barbour gave a beautiful presentation where he spoke about the “Rosary and the Cross”.  Unfortunately we do not have a recording of that presentation but the attendees soaked it up. In 2006  
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Bishop Patrick Dunn DD giving the homily during the opening Mass at our Eucharistic Convention in 2006  
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