• FOR LIFE AND FAMILY

About Together in Holiness

Where Spouses Discover God’s Plan for Their Family
Together in Holiness is a marriage conference series for dioceses that inspires spouses to grow together in holiness and empowers parents to form their children in the Catholic faith. To learn more about the Together in Holiness marriage enrichment initiative, click here.
  • "I want to personally invite all married and engaged couples to join us for the first Together in Holiness conference in our diocese. It’s a chance to be renewed in the grace of your vocation, especially through the Eucharist and Confession. Please take this day to invest in your relationship with Christ and with one another. I believe the renewal of the Church depends on holy marriages—on couples who seek to grow in love, faith, and unity with God. I hope to see you there."
  • - Most Rev. Gerald L. Vincke
    • Bishop of Salina

REGISTRATION

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

FOR  MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT

  • Early Bird Couple: $54 | Early Bird Individual: $35
    •      Early Bird pricing ends March 2.
    •      A box lunch and a light breakfast is included for each adult registrant.
  • Couple: $64 | Individual: $40
  • On-site Childcare (2-12 yrs): $5/child
  • Scholarships for couples and individuals are available.
  • Exhibitors*
  • Ministry (Non-Profit) Registration: $95 (includes registration for 2 people & 1 table)
  • Vendor (For-Profit) Registration: $165 (includes registration for 2 people & 1 table)
 
  • *Pre-approval for exhibitor booths is required and space is limited. Please email [email protected] for more information.
Sponsors
  • If you and/or your organization is interested in joining our mission as a supporting sponsor, please click here for the Sponsorship Form. You can also submit the form online by clicking here.
 
  • For questions or more information, please contact the conference coordinator at [email protected].
Scholarships
  • If you need assistance with the cost of the conference, we encourage you to apply for a partial or full scholarship (click here); if you feel called to contribute to our scholarship fund, you can do so at the time of registration.
Refund Information
  • If you are no longer able to attend the conference, after purchasing your ticket, you may choose to transfer your registration fees to a scholarship couple in need, or request a refund.
 
  • All refunds must be requested 2 weeks prior to the conference. The last day to request a refund is Friday, April 3. All refund requests made on or after April 4 will not be accepted, but the funds will automatically be transferred to a scholarship couple in need. Please email [email protected] to transfer your registration or request a refund.
   

SCHEDULE

 
9:00 AM
  • Conference Check-In
9:45 AM
  • Words of Welcome
10:00 - 11:00 AM
    • The Holy Eucharist and the Domestic Church
    • Victor Saenz, PhD
     
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
    • Strengthening the Spirituality of your Domestic Church
    • Deacon Bill and Mandy Meagher 
     
12:15 - 2:00 PM
  • Break for Lunch and Prayer
2:15 - 3:15 PM
    • Sacrificial Love is Sanctifying Love
    • Renzo and Monica Ortega
     
3:15 - 3:30 PM
  • Closing Comments
4:00 PM
  • Vigil Mass and Marriage Blessing
  • Most Rev. Jerry Vincke

Speakers

RENZO AND MONICA ORTEGA
Co-founders of Two Become Family

Renzo and Monica Ortega are Catholic ministry leaders, podcast hosts, authors, and speakers. They host the popular marriage podcast, Two Become Family (also available on YouTube), and are co-authors of the children's devotional, Go to Joseph for Children. Renzo is also the author of the men's devotional, Go to Joseph. Their online marriage ministry, Two Become Family, has been featured in the National Catholic Register and EWTN's "Life on the Rock" show, and their conversion story has been featured in the documentary St Joseph: Our Spiritual Father. Many of their talks can be found on Catholic Lighthouse Media. Renzo holds a MA in Theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary. The Ortegas live in Connecticut with their 5 children where they facilitate youth ministry and marriage prep ministry.

VICTOR SAENZ, PhD
Executive Director, Houston Institute

Victor Saenz, PhD, is Executive Director of the Houston Institute (HI), an academic non-profit whose mission is to help the people of Rice University think deeply about the best way to live through the study of the liberal arts, especially philosophy and literature. HI accomplishes these goals through reading groups, public lectures, and mentoring. He is also a Lecturer at the Rice Philosophy Department, where he regularly teaches courses in classical philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle) and the philosophy of religion. His academic work has appeared in Apeiron, Ancient Philosophy Today, and The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. He is currently working on a series of academic articles on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. He also serves as a bioethics scholar at the Paul Ramsey Institute. He holds a B.A. in philosophy and classics at the University of Notre Dame and an M.A. in philosophy from Texas A&M.

MOST REV. GERALD L. VINCKE
Bishop, Diocese of Salina

Bishop Vincke was ordained to the priesthood on June 12, 1999, at St. Mary Cathedral in Lansing, Mich. by Bishop Carl F. Mengeling. He was parochial vicar of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Ann Arbor, Mich., from 1999 to 2001. He became the director at Bethany House, a retreat house for youth, from 2001 to 2004. He attended the Creighton University for Spirituality courses in the summer of 2001. He also participated in the Institute for Priestly Formation Program at Creighton University for several summers. Additionally, he became the Director of Seminarians and Vocation Director in 2003, becoming full-time in those positions and relinquishing duties at Bethany House in 2004. He was the Spiritual Director at the Pontifical North American College in Rome from 2010 to 2015. While in Rome, he completed the requirements for the S.T.L. (License in Sacred Theology), with a focus on Spiritual Theology, in 2015. His Tesina is entitled: “Following the Path of St. John Vianney for the New Evangelization with Evangelii Guadium as a Guide.” In 2012, he was named a Monsignor by Pope Benedict XVI. In 2015, upon his return to the Diocese of Lansing, he was assigned as the pastor of Holy Family Parish in Grand Blanc, Mich. (a suburb of Flint, Mich.). At that time, he also served on the Presbyteral Council, the Priest Assignment Committee, and the College of Consultors of the Diocese of Lansing, Mich. In June of 2018, he was named as the Bishop-elect of the Diocese of Salina. He was ordained a bishop on August 22, 2018. Archbishop Naumann of Kansas City, KS was the principal consecrator at the episcopal ordination. Bishop Vincke was born on July 9, 1964, in Saginaw, Mich., the ninth of 10 children of Henry and Fidelis Vincke. He attended New Lothrop High School and Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich., where he obtained a degree in public relations and marketing. He completed his Philosophy studies at St. Thomas More College in Crestview, Ky., and his Theology studies at Athenaeum Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio and Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, Mich.

DEACON BILL AND MANDY MEAGHER

Deacon Bill and Mandy Meagher have been blessed to spend more than 25 years walking with couples, teens, and families through parish life, Catholic education, and everyday ministry. Deacon Bill serves the Diocese as Director of Communications and provides leadership for the diocesan offices of Youth Ministry, Family Life, and Religious Education. He also coaches high school basketball, where he works with young men to build a team culture based on family, with the goal of helping them become faithful husbands, fathers, priests, and leaders. Mandy is the Principal of Holy Family Elementary School in Hays, Kansas, where she partners closely with parents, teachers, and students to form the whole child and support families as the first and most important teachers of the faith. Together, Deacon Bill and Mandy have been blessed to serve couples as presenter couples for Engaged Encounter and as mentor couples for EverMore in Love, accompanying engaged and married couples as they learn to pray together, communicate, and live the sacramental life with joy and perseverance.

SPONSORS

Venue

Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church

1805 Vine Street
Hays, KS 67601

For More Information:
Bella Oprandi, Conference Coordinator
832.779.1070
[email protected]

CONTACT US

  • PHONE

    832.779.1070

  • PHYSICAL ADDRESS

    1177 W Loop South, Ste. 940
    Houston, TX 77027

  • MAILING ADDRESS

    P.O. Box 5927
    Katy, TX 77491

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