Fr. Joseph Aytona, CPM, rector of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion, (formally Our Lady of Good Help), was born in 1981 in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in the suburbs of Southern California. In 2003, Fr. Joseph joined the Congregation of the Fathers of Mercy and was ordained to the priesthood in May 2010. He is a 2010 graduate of Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, a Master of Divinity Degree, and a Master of Arts in Theology.

Along with being the rector of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion, Fr. Joseph is the founder of the Spiritual Motherhood Sodality as well as the founder of Family Vocation Ministries, an apostolate that promotes vocations through the sanctification of families. He has appeared on “EWTN Live” and “Life on the Rock” Catholic programs during which he discussed the importance of the Eucharist, the priesthood, and the Blessed Virgin Mary. He has also been interviewed by Catholic newspapers and periodicals such as the National Catholic Register and Religious Life Magazine.

Fr. Timothy M. Gallagher was ordained to the priesthood in 1979 as a member of the Congregation of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary.  In 1983, he obtained his doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University, and became a spiritual director and retreat leader.

He has taught at St. John's Seminary, Brighton, and Our Lady of Grace Seminary Residence, Boston, both in Massachusetts.  In 2015, Fr. Gallagher accepted the St. Ignatius Chair for Spiritual Formation at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver. He has written over twenty books on spiritual themes, published articles in Catholic periodicals, appears frequently on Catholic television, and records many podcasts, radio interviews, series on YouTube, and virtual events used throughout the English-speaking Catholic world.

Fr. Daniel Reehil is pastor of St. Catherine of Siena Church in Columbia, TN.  He was born on Mineola, NY on August 4, 1965, and is the oldest of four children. His father was a NYC Fire Chief, and his mother was a court reporter after the children were in school.

After September 11, 2001, he left NYC and moved to Boston with a priest that invited him to come and see the life of diocesan priesthood. The priest, Fr. Tom Dilorenzo, was the greatest priestly role model Fr. Reehil has ever experienced, and it was in Boston that his formation to priesthood began.  From Boston he entered Holy Apostles seminary and began studying philosophy. After two years of Theology, he left seminary to become a contemplative hermit in Omaha, NE. For five years he was formed in the radical life of the Evangelical Counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience. He then went back to seminary to finish his studies.

Near the end of his studies, Bishop David Choby invited him to Nashville to come and see Middle Tennessee. Both Dan and Bishop Choby agreed Nashville would be his new home. Upon his ordination on July 26, 2014, Fr. Reehil was assigned to St. Edward Parish as the Parochial Vicar; two year later he was elevated to Pastor.

Fr. Reehil is also the exorcist for the Diocese of Nashville, and the National Director of Radio Maria USA where he has a daily radio program called “Battle Ready with Fr. Dan Reehil”.

Fr. Frank J. García a beloved priest of the Archdiocese of Denver, is currently the pastor at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Denver, CO.  He was born in Cuba in 1958 and fled the communist revolution in 1960 to the United States.  His family immigrated to Colorado in 1961. Fr. Frank attended the University of Colorado (B.A. Psychology), Regis College (MBA-Finance and Accounting) and St. John XXIII National Seminary, Weston, Massachusetts (MDiv) and was ordained a priest in 2006 for the Archdiocese of Denver.  Fr. Frank was a social studies teacher for Jefferson County Public Schools for twenty-two years specializing in economics and history.  Fr. Frank is former pastor of the Tri-parishes of Sacred Heart, Roggen, Our Lady of Lourdes, Wiggins, Holy Family, Keenesburg; St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church and School, Loveland; the Tri-parishes of St. Helena, Fort Morgan, St. Francis of Assisi, Weldona and Our Lady of Lourdes, Wiggins, and parochial vicar at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Lakewood.

Fr. Joseph Tran, a beloved priest of the Archdiocese of Denver, is currently the pastor at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Golden, CO.  Fr. Joseph got his vocation to the priesthood when he was ten years of age.  Fr. Joseph was born and raised in Saigon, a city in South Vietnam.  Due to religious persecution of the communist regime and poverty, he could not attend the seminary there, so his only way of discerning his vocation and to serve God and His Church was to escape the country.  Fr. Joseph, with the rosary being his constant companion, had a devotion to Mary long before he had to leave his homeland of Vietnam as a young man.  When he left Vietnam in May 1986, the month of Mary, crossing the ocean in a small boat, he was clutching the only thing his father was able to send him off with, a rosary.  Mary was there then and will always be with him on his ongoing journey of faith. 

Daniel diSilva is the director of the 2015 documentary, The Original Image of Divine Mercy, and is the current president of The Original Divine Mercy Institute headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania. Author of the new book, Masterpiece of Mercy, diSilva is the world's premiere expert on Eugeniusz Kazimirowski’s magnum opus and has presented the findings of his research for audiences around the world in various languages. His comprehensive work has been broadening the understanding of the unique significance of the Original Image of Divine Mercy as well as an appreciation for its labyrinthine 90-year history. His international tour schedule includes parishes, schools, universities, seminaries, the Vatican, and conferences including World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, just last month. Visit www.OriginalDivine Mercy.com for more on the institute and diSilva’s exceptional work.