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Our List of Speakers...
Coming together as one...
Don Sergio Pellegrini, Vicar General, of the Archdiocese of Trani-Barletta - Bisceglie, will open the Congress with a recorded presentation from Italy. - He was appointed as parish priest of the Church Saint Maria Greca in 2002. At the same time, he was appointed a Ecclesiastical Assistant of the Association Luisa Piccarreta Little Children of the Divine WIll and as President of the Historical Commission in the Diocesan Inquiry on the life, virtue and reputation of holiness of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. He is the President of the Secretariat of the Association Luisa Piccarreta Little Children of the Divine Will. In 2017 he was appointed as Vice Posulator for the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God in the Vatican Phase. He has been the Vicar General since June 11, 2017.
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Enza Arbore, President of the Luisa Piccarreta Association, Corato, Italy. She holds a diploma as an Accountant and business Expert. She has collaborated with the Luisa Piccarreta P.F.D.V. Association since 1988, where she works as the financial curator of both historical and current archives. She serves as assistant notary of the Diocesan Ecclesiastical Tribunal for the Cause of Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta. She is married and has a daughter and a son.
Don Vincenzo Bovino, after serving in Trani (Archdiocese of Trani - Barletta - Bisceglie) as Parochial Vicar, since September 2021 he has been the Pastor of the Parish of Santa Maria Greca Church in Corato (Bari), that holds the tomb of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta.
Antonella Bucci, Corato, Italy. Served on the Association's Board of Directors from 2011 to 2019. She holds a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures and has been working with the Association Luisa Piccarreta since 2005. She is responsible for foreign language correspondence, welcomes pilgrims, and is the curator of the Association’s official website
Fr. Dave Leon, a dedicated and passionate leader in the Divine Will community. Father has been leading Divine Will groups since 1996, inspiring countless souls on their spiritual journey of living in God's most divine and perfect Will. He serves as the diocesan contact for information regarding the Cause of Beatification of the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta, for the Diocese of San Diego, California. He leads the renowned DW Study Group, a major teaching organization and the primary source of instruction for LCDF and many other individuals within the Divine Will community.
Don Bernardo Acuña, The son of Jose Luis Acuña, has lived in communion with the Luisa Piccarreta Association with which he has collaborated in national retreats for 25 years. He celebrated one of his first Masses in Luisa's house in Corato, with his family and brothers from the Luisa Piccarreta Association. He is currently the Pastor of the Parish of St. Francis of Assisi in Marina di Cerveteri. He also holds the position of Episcopal Vicar for Formation and President of the Diocesan Institute for the Support of the Clergy.
Alejandra Acuña, Like her father Jose Luis Acuna, started giving conferences about the Divine Will at the express request of the Tribunal for Luisa’s Cause, at the 1st International Congress in Costa Rica, in 1995 and has continued ever since. Passionate about leading Retreats and Pilgrimages centered around the Gift of Living in the Divine Will, she has co-facilitated with us in two major Pilgrimage/Retreat Events within the last 9 months and has been instrumental in helping us host this event. She is married and has 3 daughters and a son.
Mother Gabrielle Marie Breaux Superior and foundress of the Benedictine Daughters of Divine Will, Mother Gabrielle began her religious life as a Poor Clare of Perpetual Adoration in the US. For thirty-three years she worked under the guidance of the late Abbess Mother Angelica, foundress of EWTN. During that time she fell in love with the Divine Will writings of the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta from a book received from one of her postulants as she was her novice mistress.
In 2009, Mother Gabrielle received a sabbatical during which time she made a retreat at a Benedictine monastery with her friend and spiritual director, Fr. Jacques Daley, OSB. While on retreat, they felt God placed a call on their hearts to found a new monastic community in Italy dedicated to Eucharistic Adoration and Luisa Piccarreta’s writings on how to live in God’s Most Holy and Divine Will.
On April 12, 2011, this became a reality when Msgr. Luigi Negri accepted the Benedictine Daughters of Divine Will in the Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro. The Benedictine Monks followed later on July 4, 2014 under Bishop Andrea Turazzi. In 2016, the family was completed when their bishop gave permission to found the Third Order of Benedictine Oblates of Divine Will.
Fr. B. Thomas Celso, B.D.V., will speak at this congress via video presentation. He enteresd St. Bernard Seminary in 1974 and was introduced to the Divine Will during his Clinical Pastoral Study in 1976. He was ordained a priest in 1979. In 1994, Fr Celso was given permission to work with the Secretariat of the Cause in Italy for the promotion of the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta. He was present for the opening of the Cause of Luisa in 1994. Fr. Celso gives Retreats and days of Recollection throughout the US and Europe focusing on the Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta and the Divine Will. He became a Third Order Benedictine Oblate of the Divine Will in 2016. Now a retired senior priest, he helps out weekly at local schools in East Rochester, NY, offering Holy Mass and Confession for faculty and students.
Fr. Esaú García, Priest of the Diocese of Orlando. Pastor of Holy Cross since 2003. Host Priest for our 1st International Divine Will Unity Congress. Ordination: 1987 in Rome by Saint John Paul II.
Licentiate in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University. Came to know the Writings of the Divine Will in 2007; since then, he has loved them, studied them, and tried to live them.
Don Marco Cannavò, priest of the Diocese of Milan, he was ordained in 1997, holds a bachelor’s degree in theology from the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy (1996) and a licentiate in theological anthropology from the Pugliese Theological Institute (2016). He currently serves as chaplain at the “V. Buzzi” Children’s Hospital in Milan and as a spiritual guide for several Divine Will groups in Northern Italy.
Fr. Carlos Massieu was ordained a priest on August 4, 1983. Since 2003, he has served as a diocesan priest in the Diocese of León, Nicaragua, and with the blessing of H.E. Mons. Cesar Bosco Rivas Robelo and the current Bishop of León, H.E. René Sándigo Jirón, he continues the apostolate of the Divine Will as Co-Founder and Director of the “House of the Divine Will,” alongside Mother Marianela Pérez. He leads and is recognized for his teachings on the Divine Will.
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Fr. Bruno Murphy is a 53-year-old priest serving in the Diocese of Aberdeen in Scotland, UK. Originally from London, England, Fr. Bruno trained in medicine and worked as a doctor for 3 years before entering the seminary. As a priest, he has worked in Italy, Ireland, and the UK. He has practised total consecration to Mary since he was 22 and has been journeying in the divine Will since about 2017. His particular interest is the role of Mary in the Fiat of sanctification.
Sam Khadhouri OCDS is a lay apostle on the Divine Will, teaching alongside priests and religious, journeying in the Divine Will. He is based in Ealing, London. He holds Divine Will Study Days every four weeks and uploads the sessions to his YouTube channel at youtube.com/@dwsmeet. Sam's faith story is closely linked to Our Blessed Mother Mary, who has guided him to a deeper intimacy with Christ. He studied for an MA in Catholic Applied Theology at the Maryvale Institute in England from 2006 to 2009 and was fully professed as a Secular Carmelite (OCDS) in 2015. Additionally, he has been ordained as a subdeacon minister in the Chaldean Catholic Rite Church. Sam was introduced to the Divine Will in 1999 by the late Tom Fahy. Sam’s Archbishop consecrated him to the Divine Will on the solemnity of St. Joseph in 2023. Later in the year, the Divine Will Study Days commenced by the grace of God. He is married and has three children, aged 23, 19, and 10.
Lorena Gómez is originally from Colombia and discovered the Writings of the Divine Will in 1995 at the age of 19, while finishing her Psychology studies at the University of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Her spiritual experience led her to enter contemplative life at the Monastery of the Visitation, where she lived for two years. She later continued her path of consecration for twelve years in a community dedicated to the Divine Will, where she deepened her understanding of the writings given to Luisa Piccarreta.
In the apostolic field, she has served as a catechist and formator at both the parish and community levels. She actively participated in evangelization through media, collaborating for several years on radio programs broadcast by Radio Paz Miami, Radio María Miami, and Radio Santa Teresita.
She is the author of the books History of the Church – First Century and How to Learn to Live Suffering, and she holds a master’s degree in Art Management.
For the past eight years, she has been married to Felipe Gómez. United by the desire to spread the Gift of Living in the Divine Will, they founded in the United States the non-profit organization Hijos de la Luz Inc., dedicated to evangelization through in-person retreats and digital content, especially through their YouTube channel.
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