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Fr. John-Mark Missio
 Retreat
master Fr.
John-Mark Missio is
an accomplished choir director and published
composer and bring together the experience and knowledge of
an ordained priest, busy administrator, trained musician and liturgical
theologian for truly insightful retreat talks.
A graduate of Toronto's Saint Augustine Seminary, Fr. Missio has a degree in Mathematics from the University of
Waterloo, in addition to his many studies in music at the Royal Conservatory
in Toronto, Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, and the Pontifical
Institute of Sacred Music in Rome.
He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Toronto in 1996, and
after serving in two parishes he was called to be Associate Director of the
Saint Michael Choir School in 2003. He had previously undertaken studies at
the Liturgical Institute in Mundelein where he earned a Master of Art in
Liturgical Studies. In 2004, Fr. Missio was appointed
Director of St. Michael’s Choir School in Toronto, Canada.
Saint Michael's Choir School was founded in 1937 by Fr. John Edward Ronan
to facilitate the training of a boys' choir for Saint Michael's Cathedral.
The official name of the school at the time was Cathedral Schola Cantorum.
On May 17, 1955, St. Michael's Choir School was accorded an affiliation with
the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome -- only six other choirs
and choir schools in the world share this privilege.
His setting of the Canticle of the Lamb was recently published by Cantica
Nova
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
 Hillenbrand
Lecturer
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput was born September
26, 1944, in Concordia, Kansas. He joined the Order of Friars Minor
Capuchin, St. Augustine Province, in 1965 and
completed Studies in Psychology at Catholic University
in Washington D.C. in 1969. He earned a Master of Arts in Religious
Education from Capuchin College in Washington D.C., in 1970 and was ordained
to the priesthood on August 29, 1970.
Archbishop Chaput received a
Master of Arts in Theology from the University of San Francisco in 1971 and
was ordained Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, on July 26, 1988. Pope John
Paul II appointed him Archbishop of Denver on February 18, 1997. As member
of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe, Archbishop Chaput is the second Native
American to be ordained bishop in the United States, and the first Native
American archbishop. He has since come to be known as a leader in the New
Evangelization.
Mr. Kevin Allen
 Retreat
schola director Kevin Allen is
highly regarded as a composer of opera, chamber and orchestral music, and
has also developed a unique reputation as a composer of church music for the
Roman Rite. Mr. Allen’s
sacred and secular works have been
performed in churches and concert halls throughout the United States and
Europe. Mr. Allen is based in
Chicago and is the founding director of the Collins Consort, American
Composer’s Project, the Schola Immaculata, and a co-founder of the Musicam
Sacram Choir of Chicago. He is also the choirmaster of the
Monastery of the
Holy Cross in Chicago.
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