SI 2025 International Convention Program

See Room Legend Below

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 (For Early Arrivals)

• Optional Tours: Half-day or full-day - on your own

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 (For Early Arrivals)

• Optional Tours: Half-day or full-day - on your own

• 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM: SI Foundation Board Meeting (1)

• 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Past SI Presidents Meeting (2)

• 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Dinner on Your Own / Past Presidents' Dinner (3)

• 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Cocktail Hour for Board Members (Council, International, and Foundation) (4)

• 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM: Hospitality

Thursday, June 26, 2025

• Morning: Breakfast on Your Own

• Optional Tour: Half-day - on your own

• 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM: USA Council Board Meeting (5)

• 8:45 AM: Gather at the Hotel Lobby for bus for WWI Tour

• 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM: SI Board Meeting (6)

• 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM: WWI Museum Tour & Fr. Emil J. Kapaun Presentation (Registration Required)

• 12:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Registration Opens for Convention (7)

• Lunch: On Your Own

• 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Presentation on Marian Art by Donna Houtteman of ART BLOCKS at Hotel (Registration Required) (10)

• 3:15 - 4:00 PM: USA Council Membership Meeting (5)

• 4:15 PM – 4:45 PM: Walk to Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

• 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Celebration of Mass at the Cathedral

• 7:00 PM: Eucharistic Adoration Opens After Processing from Hotel Entry (1)/(8)

• 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM: Welcome Reception and Dinner at Hotel (9)

• 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM: Hospitality

Friday, June 27, 2025

• All Day: Eucharistic Adoration Continues (8)

• Morning: Breakfast on Your Own

• 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM: Serra Leadership Program (1)

• 9:00 AM – 9:40 AM: Rev. Paul Sheller, OSB (10)

• 9:45 AM – 10:25 AM: Most Rev. Thomas Daly, DD (10)

• 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM: Coffee Break

• 10:45 AM – 11:25 AM: Sr. Nancy Rose Gucwa, OSB (10)

• 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM: Lunch Sponsored by SI Foundation (9)

• 1:10 PM – 1:50 PM: Breakout Session - Vocations (6)/Membership (10)/Foundation (5) (Concurrent)

• 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM: Confessions (11) (2 Rooms)

• 2:00 PM - 2:40 PM: Breakout Session - Communications (10)/Programs (6) Workshops (Concurrent)

• 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM: Stephen Minnis, Guest Speaker 4 (10)

• 3:40 PM – 4:10 PM: Rosary (10)

• 4:15 PM – 4:45 PM: Break & Prep for Mass

• 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Celebration of Memorial Mass at the Hotel - Cardinal Collins (10)

• 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM: Dinner on Your Own (Consider the Royals vs. Dodgers game!)

• 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM: Hospitality

Saturday, June 28, 2025

• 6:30 AM - 8:00 AM: Continental Breakfast at the Hotel (9)

• 8:00 AM – 8:40 AM: Global Rosary (10)

• 8:45 AM – 9:25 AM: Abbott Gregory Polan, OSB (10)

• 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM: Coffee Break

• 9:45 AM – 10:35 AM: State of Serra Report by SI President/Serra International Parish Membership Drive Awards (10)

• 10:45 AM – 11:30 AM: Town Hall Meeting (10)

• Lunch: On Your Own

• 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM: Round Table: Rev. Nathan Rueb, Rev. Daniel Morris, Rev. Willie Purcell (10)

• 1:45 PM – 2:20 PM: Serra Around the World (Council Reports) (10)

• 2:35 PM - 2:45 PM: Break

• 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM: Delegates Meeting (10)/Special Chaplains Meeting (6)/Deacons Meeting (5)

• 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM: North American Serra Councils Meeting (Room(s) TBD)

• 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM: Regional Meetings (Room(s) TBD)

• 4:00 PM: Eucharistic Adoration Concludes

• 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Celebration of Mass at the Hotel (10)

• 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Cocktail Reception at the Hotel (12)

• 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Annual Banquet & Installation of New SI President (10)

• 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM: Hospitality

Sunday, June 29, 2025

• Morning: Breakfast at the Hotel on Your Own

• 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM: SI Board Meeting (6)