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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Christina Ronzio

Christina Ronzio holds a bachelor’s degree in religious studies, with a minor in church music and worship, from St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo (ON), and a master’s degree in liturgical studies from St. John’s University, Collegeville (MN). She has ministered in the US and Canada as parish liturgy director and as diocesan Director of Liturgy for the dioceses of London (ON), Cleveland (OH) and Hamilton (ON). In 2018 she was named the Director of the National Liturgy Office for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Secretary to the Episcopal Commission for Liturgy and the Sacraments.

 Contact Christina at c.ronzio@cccb.ca

Chris O’Brien

Chris O’Brien is Assistant Professor of Sacramental and Liturgical Theology at the Franciscan School of Theology. He received his doctorate from The Catholic University of America in 2025 in Liturgical Studies/ Sacramental Theology. Prior to his time at CUA, he received a B.S. in Physics and an M.A. in Education from Stanford University, and an M.Div. from the University of Notre Dame. He also spent five years teaching physics and mathematics, mostly at Catholic high schools. His research, writing, and teaching aims to put liturgical-sacramental history and theology into conversation with lived experience of Christian worship. His articles on topics such as Christian initiation, Eucharist, children and liturgy, liturgical sacramental theology, ecclesiology, and ecumenism have been published in liturgical, theological, and ecumenical journals. His forthcoming book with Liturgical Press Academic explores the history and theology of the practice of infant communion in Roman Catholicism.

Contact Christ at cobrien1@fst.edu

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TREASURER -  MICHAEL R. Prendergast

Michael R. Prendergast has over 50 years’ experience as a musician and liturgist at the parish, cathedral, diocesan and industry levels. A native of the diocese of Helena, Montana, Michael is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Theology and Music at the University of Portland, and recently retired as the coordinator of liturgy and music at St. Andrew Parish in Portland, Oregon. He is the founder of Sacred Liturgy Ministries, a liturgical consulting firm. Michael has written on topics related to music and liturgy in Pastoral Music, Liturgical Ministry, New Theological Review, Today’s Liturgy, and Pastoral Liturgy. He is the editor and co-author of several books including Parish Liturgy Basics, Pastoral Press. He holds a master’s in theological studies from Mount Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, Oregon, and a master in liturgical studies from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

                                                        Contact Michael at liturgy.michael@gmail.com

Clerk - Stephen WilbriCht, C.S.C.

Stephen S. Wilbricht, C.S.C. serves as the convener of the Christian Initiation Seminar of the North American Academy of Liturgy, of which he has been a member since 2011.  He is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.  Prior to beginning graduate studies in liturgy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in 2002, he enjoyed seven years of pastoral ministry in two parishes in the Phoenix area.  His major research interests revolve around the work of the liturgical movement and issues of present-day liturgical renewal.  He is the author of Rehearsing God’s Just Kingdom: The Eucharistic Vision of Mark Searle (Liturgical Press, 2013). 

                                                         Contact Steve at swilbricht@stonehill.edu                                                     

WEB STEWARD - DAVID FARINA TURNBLOOM

David Farina Turnbloom is an associate professor of theology at the University of Portland where he specializes in liturgical theology and theological ethics. David grew up in northern Minnesota as the eldest child in a family of five. He received a BA in theology from the University of St. Thomas, an MTS from Weston Jesuit School of Theology, and a PhD in systematic theology from Boston College. He is the author of Speaking of Aquinas: A Conversation About Grace, Virtue, and the Eucharist (2017) and the co-editor of Catholic Sacraments: A Rich Source of Blessings (2015). He was the recipient of a Louisville Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Theological Education and the co-winner of the Catherine Mowry LaCunga Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America in honor of the article "Tactical Ecumenism" written with Benjamin Durheim and published in Theological Studies.

                                                         Contact David at turnbloo@up.edu