Bishop Andrew Cozzens

Bishop Andrew Cozzens, a proud graduate of Benedictine College in Atchison Kansas, served as a missionary for young people with both Twin Cities-based NET Ministries and the national college ministry Saint Paul’s Outreach before entering seminary.  He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis in 1997 and after serving in two parishes was sent to Rome for doctoral studies, where he completed a doctorate degree in Sacramental Theology focusing on Saint John Paul II’s theology of the Priest as the Bridegroom of the Church.  His book A Living Image of the Bridegroom: The Priesthood and the Evangelical Counsels was published in 2020 through the Institute for Priestly Formation out of Omaha, an organization for which he also serves as president.  After teaching in seminary formation for 8 years Bishop Cozzens was ordained to the episcopacy in 2013 as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.  On December 6, 2021, he was installed as the 8th bishop of the Diocese of Crookston in northern Minnesota. He currently serves as the chair of the USCCB Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis where he has been tasked by the Bishops with leading a three-year National Eucharistic Revival which seeks to impact the US Church at every level strengthening Eucharistic belief and practice. As part of the Revival, he has founded and is the first President of the National Eucharistic Congress Corporation and is overseeing the organizing of the first National Eucharistic Congress in the United States in almost 50 years.

Sr. Miriam James Heidland, SOLT

Sr. Miriam James Heidland is a former Division I athlete who had a radical conversion and joined the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) in 1998. Her story has been featured on EWTN’s “The Journey Home,” SEEK Conferences, Steubenville Conferences and other outlets.

She holds a Master’s degree in Theology from the Augustine Institute and speaks extensively on the topics of conversion, authentic love, forgiveness, and healing. She is also affiliated with the John Paul II Healing Center in leading healing retreats for priests and religious sisters across the nation.

Sr. Miriam’s podcast, “Abiding Together”, can be found on iTunes. Her books, Restore: A Guided Lent Journal and Loved As I Am can be found on Amazon. She Tweets at @onegroovynun.

Dr. Mary Healy

Dr. Mary Healy is a professor of Scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and a bestselling author and international speaker. She is a general editor of the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture and author of two of its volumes, The Gospel of Mark and Hebrews. Her other books include The Spiritual Gifts Handbook and Healing. Dr. Healy serves the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian unity as a member of the Pentecostal-Catholic International Dialogue. She was appointed by Pope Francis as one of the first women ever to serve on the Pontifical Biblical Commission, and is a consultor to the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

Monsignor James Shea

Monsignor James Patrick Shea serves as president of the University of Mary. He was inaugurated in 2009 as the sixth president of the university and, at the age of 34, became the youngest college or university president in the United States. The oldest of eight children, Monsignor Shea grew up on a dairy and grain farm near Hazelton, ND. He began his undergraduate work at Jamestown College, majoring in English and history. He then entered the seminary for the Diocese of Bismarck, earning a bachelor’s degree and a pontifical master’s degree (licentiate) in philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He studied classical Greek at the University of Texas at Austin and continued at the Vatican’s North American College, studying theology at the Gregorian and Lateran universities in Rome. He has studied management at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and is also an alumnus of the Institutes for Higher Education at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University. Monsignor Shea has worked with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity at the Gift of Peace AIDS Hospice while teaching religion at two inner-city elementary schools in Washington, D.C. In Rome, he served as chaplain for the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital and also at the Rome campus of the Center for Catholic Studies at the University of Saint Thomas. Following his ordination to the priesthood in 2002, he returned to North Dakota and served as an associate pastor in Bismarck and Mandan. During that time, he was also the chaplain and an instructor at Saint Mary’s Central High School in Bismarck. He then served as pastor to parishes in Killdeer and Halliday (North Dakota), while teaching at Trinity High School in Dickinson. Deeply committed to the education and formation of young people, he has been an inspirational teacher and mentor for many students.

Monsignor Shea is a Knight Commander of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and serves on the Board of Directors for FOCUS, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students. He has served on the National Advisory Council to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Governor’s Commission on Education Improvement for the State of North Dakota. Monsignor is also a Trustee of Saint John Vianney Seminary in Denver and a member of the Executive Committee of the Board for the Association of Benedictine Colleges and Universities.

Aly Aleigha - Music/Worship

Aly Aleigha is an indie-folk artist from Duluth, MN.  When she is not touring, Aly spends her days rock climbing cliffs that plunge into beautiful Lake Superior or adventuring in some way. These adventures and her personal, heartfelt stories have served as inspirations for her songwriting, which both rattle and comfort the soul of the listener. Music has the capacity to reach into the depths of our hearts and elevate us to something beyond ourselves; Aly Aleigha's music does just that, unifying listeners in relatable experiences, as well as transcending minds and hearts to something greater.