Maria Rodgers O’Rourke is a popular writer, facilitator and speaker who has given numerous workshops and retreats. 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, she provided color commentary on the Odyssey Network for the 1999 Papal Visit of Pope John Paul II to St. Louis. Married for over 15 years, Maria and her husband have two daughters.
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