OUR LADY CALLS is blessed to have Father Blla Allam
accompany the April 2009 group as Chaplain. Ordained to the priesthood on March 22, 2003 for the diocese of Nalgonda, India, Fr. Alla currently serves as the Rector of St. Joseph's Orphanage and Head Master of St. Gaetan's School in Mahbubnagar, Andhra Pradesh, India (aproximately 450 miles southeast of Mumbai).
Although this will be Fr. Allam's first Our Lady Calls pilgrimage, it is certainly not his first time leading Catholics to holy sites!
He is proud to have served as the priestly Chaplin for American pilgrimages to Egypt & the Holy Land last March. We are very pleased to welcome Fr. Allam as our Chaplain this April!
Fr. Mark Ballard
August 2009
We are pleased to
announce Fr. Mark Ballard as our chaplain for
the August 2009 pilgrimage to Medjugorje. Ordained to the Priesthood in May of 2002 for the
Archdiocese of Boston, he is currently serving as
Parochial Vicar at All Saints Parish,
Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Before entering the seminary, Fr. Mark received his
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Massachusetts
College of Art in Boston. After attending MassArt,
he worked as a park ranger at Salem Maritime
National Historic Site in Salem, MA, in various
museums in Salem, and as an administrative assistant
at Citizens Energy in Boston. Fr. Mark entered St.
John's Seminary in Brighton Massachusetts in 1996
and today enjoys a busy ministry at All Saints
Church. His hobbies include: swimming, biking,
history, travel, and art. This will be Father
Ballard's third time acting as chaplain for an
OUR LADY CALLS
pilgrimage.
Fr.
Michael Monette
September 2008
Fr. Monette is a priest of the Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire. He was ordained a priest on June 5, 1999 after the completion of his studies at St. John’s Seminary in Boston. Given a love for Jesus and the priesthood at a young age, he discovered Louis de Montfort’s True Devotion to Mary. Soon after, St. Louis became his spiritual father and he followed his example in consecrating his life to the Blessed Mother. Shortly after his ordination, Fr. Michael had the opportunity to go on pilgrimage and celebrate Mass at the tomb of St. Louis de Montfort. Since the beginning of his current assignment, he has traveled with parishioners to Medjugorje, Israel, Jordan, Canada, Italy and within the United States. Fr. Michael is Pastor of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish, a merged Catholic Community of two former parishes, both of which are still open and serve as places of worship. They are Holy Angels Church, in Plaistow, NH, and Mary, Mother of the Church, in Newton, NH. This will be Fr. Michael's second time acting as chaplain for an OUR LADY CALLS pilgrimage.
Father McCabes is currently the associate pastor at Church of the Holy Spirit in Montgomery, Alabama.
