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Susan Beaudry, p.m. has been involved in the retreat ministry, offering spiritual direction, directed and group retreats for the past 20 years.  She presently resides in Methuen, MA.
 
William Brown, OMV. is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, and serves as Provincial for the United States province.  He is a retreat and spiritual director and ministers to young adults in the Boston, MA area.
 
Michelle DeSimone is a pastoral assistant at St. Brigid’s Parish in Hartford, CT.  She is a spiritual director and for several years has assisted Fr. Edward McLean in giving retreats here at the Center.
 
Mary Ann DeTrana is a freelance writer and lecturer.  She has extensive experience in presenting retreats to diverse groups throughout the country.  She has a B.A. from Dominican University, Chicago and an M.A. in Theology from Durham University, England.  She is a Feldenkrais® Practitioner and Bones For Life teacher.  She is the founder of Healing Sabbath, a residential respite program in Richmond, Virginia.
 
Susan Frederick, p.m. holds an M.A. in Christian Spirituality and Spiritual Direction from Creighton University, Omaha, NE.  She presently serves as president of Presentation of Mary Academy, Methuen, MA.
 
Ann Harriman holds a certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation in Bethesda, MD.  She is a Christian Reiki Master and practitioner.   Ann has a private spiritual direction practice and is available at M.J.S.C. upon request.  She is also a Rivier Retreat team member.
 
Donald Harriman is a former educator and Junior High School administrator.  He has been involved in retreat work as a facilitator since the late nineteen-eighties. 
 
Fr.Willliam Jarema is the author of Fathering the Next Generation, There's a Hole in My Chest, and a newly released, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Altar.  Fr. Jarema is the founder and program director of the Mercy Center for Healing the Whole Person, in Colorado Springs, CO.  He is a spiritual director, psychotherapist, retreat director and international workshop presenter.
 
Marie May Lausier, p.m. studied Spirituality and Theology at the Gregorian Institute in Rome, Italy.  She holds an  M.A. from Fairfield University in CT, and is certified in Marian Studies from the Marian Institute in Dayton, OH.  She authored In Joyful Haste, the life of Blessed Anne Marie Rivier.  She is a retreat and spiritual director, Rivier Retreat  facilitator and  province director of the Marie Rivier Association for her religious community.
 
Jane McAllister has a B.A. from Loyola University, Chicago and an M.S. from Medical College of Virginia.  She has enjoyed careers as a teacher, human resources executive and currently as an Occupational Therapist.  Jane works part-time in an acute care hospital in Richmond, VA and is involved in her private Feldenkrais® practice.
 
Fr. Edward McLean is a diocesan priest of the Archdiocese of Hartford and Director of the Catholic Information Center in Hartford, CT.  He is a spiritual director, pastoral counselor, lecturer and a retreat master for laity, religious and clergy.
 
David Nicgorski, OMV is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary and a native of Philadelphia.  His background includes being a director to young adults and youth ministry and co-director of a retreat center in Perth Amboy, NJ.  Presently he lives and works in Milton, MA where he is a member of his community's parish mission and retreat team.
 
Kim Le Nguyen  holds a Bachelor degree of Fine Art from the University of Louisiana specializing in watercolor.  At Mount Mary in Milwaukee, WI, she obtained a Master's degree in Art Therapy.  She has worked as an Activity Psychotherapist and currently teaches Creative Expressions at the Mercy Center in Colorado Springs, CO.
 
Fr. Daniel O'Connell is a diocesan priest, pastor of a parish and staff member of the Office of Spiritual Development in the Boston archdiocese.  He is involved with parish-wide retreats and days of recollection.  He is a producer and host on the Boston Catholic Television.
 
Linda Mae Plourde, p.m., is a Vocation Director for the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary of the Methuen Province.  She has an M.A. in Education from Boston College and an M.A. in Theology from St. Michael's College in VT.  She has also received a certificate in Spiritual Direction from Mercy Center in Colorado Springs, CO.
 
Fr. Leonard Tighe is a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston.  He has been a parish priest, hospital chaplain and for several years has been actively involved in adult faith formation.  Still involved in hospital ministry, he has given many retreats to religious and others in the United States and Canada.
 
 
   
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