Speaking Programs
Rediscover the Holy in the Holidays
Maria Rodgers O’Rourke is the perfect speaker for your Advent gathering. Whether a day of reflection or church gathering, the prayer, presentation content, and discussion format are tailored to your group’s needs. Click on the links below to meet Maria! Some suggested topics:
- Celebrate a Great Christmas–Simply!
- Advent—Wait, Watch, and Wonder
- Gratitude & Grace—Living the Christmas Spirit
- Christmas Moments—the Hidden Joys of the Season
- Mary—the First to Say “Yes!”
- Advent—a New Year Begins
- We are the Magi
- Prepare Your Heart and Home for a Great Christmas
Maria Rodgers O’Rourke is a popular writer, facilitator and speaker who has given numerous workshops and retreats. She contributed her story, “Love and Potato Chips” to Chicken Soup for the Soul Devotional Stories for Women (2009). Author of Prepare Your Heart and Be a Great Mom (2009), and Prepare Your Heart for a Great Christmas (2008), she has been a contributing columnist to the St. Louis Post Dispatch and local radio show host. Maria has served the church on the national and local levels as executive director of the Conference for Pastoral Planning & Council Development, Communications Director for the Midwest Province of the Vincentian Priests and Brothers, and as an agency director in family life, lay spirituality and associate director of stewardship for the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Maria holds a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Studies. A long-time co-presenter at King’s House in Belleville, Illinois, in 1999 she provided color commentary on the Odyssey Network for the Papal Visit of Pope John Paul II to St. Louis. Married for over 15 years, Maria and her husband have two daughters.
