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National Director

Father Nelson is a priest of St. Michael's Abbey in Silverado, California, a community of Norbertine Canons. He has a licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (The Angelicum) in Rome.

Executive Director

Jeff was President of Magdalen College for 13 years and most recently Principal of Blessed Trinity School in Dane, Wisconsin.  Jeff became full-time Executive Director of the IRL in the summer of 2019.  He was also the Vice-President of the Orate Pastoral Liturgical Institute of Sacred Liturgy, Music, and Art.  Jeff is married and is the father of ten children.

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Sue worked at the National Shrine of St. Maximilian Kolbe for a number of years before coming to the IRL. She is a first-grade catechist at Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Lake Villa, IL. She has been married for 22 years and is the mother of two teenage daughters.

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Paula Rochelemagne is a graduate of Duke University in Durham, NC.  She worked as an Events Manager and Director of Catering for various companies, hotels, and private clubs in the Chicago area before homeschooling her two children through high school.  She has been a committed adorer at Marytown, the National Shrine of St. Maximillian Kolbe in Libertyville, IL for many years, and she and her husband of 25 years are parishioners at Saint Peter Church in Volo, IL. 

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