"Our Lady, the Angels and Their Mission for Our Time"

Rev. Joseph Maurici is the Parochial Vicar of St. Louis Parish in Pittsford.  He was born and raised in the Rochester area, graduating from The Harley School in 2004.  He received a Bachelor of Arts from Mercyhurst University in 2014 and began his seminary studies the same year.  He was awarded a Bachelor of Philosophy from St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, MA in 2017, and continued his theology studies at that institution, receiving a Masters of Divinity in 2021.  In partnership with the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, he also received through St. John’s a Bachelors in Sacred Theology.  He was ordained to the Priesthood of Jesus Christ on June 5, 2021 by the Most Rev. Salvatore Matano, Ninth Bishop of Rochester, and was formerly the Parochial Vicar of St. Mary’s in Auburn, NY, Sts. Mary and Martha Parish in Auburn, NY, and Our Lady of the Snow Parish in Weedsport, NY.

In addition to being an attorney licensed to practice law in New York and North Carolina, Christine is certified in Spirituality through the Avila Institute.  She also completed the Diocese of Syracuse’s Formation for Ministry Program where she concentrated on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death and social justice issues.  Over the years, Christine helped to spearhead the highly successful Rochester Catholic Women’s Conferences, cofounded the CNY Network for Life in Syracuse, New York; provided legal research and writing for a federal prolife lawsuit; ran her own law firm where she represented children with special needs in school cases in North Carolina; and has even taken bus loads of teens to Washington, DC to stand up for the least among us at the National March for Life.  Christine, her husband Pasquale and son Leo are parishioners at St. Louis Catholic Church in Pittsford, NY.  The DiNovo family was blessed by their pilgrimages to holy places in Mexico, Portugal, Spain and France.  Christine led a retreat about the Marian Apparitions at Fatima, Lourdes and Guadalupe at the Notre Dame Retreat Center last year and is excited to be back.  

Stephanie Honz is originally from northern Wisconsin. Raised a Catholic, she had her first church organist position at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Superior, Wisconsin at the age of 12. She holds degrees in organ performance from the University of Wisconsin and the Eastman School of Music, with further study at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. Stephanie currently serves as Pastoral Associate for Music and Liturgy at St. Louis Church in Pittsford and is an adjunct organ professor at Nazareth University.

Stephanie enjoyed a 20-year performing career under German concert management, performing throughout Europe, China, North Africa, and Israel. She has played for liturgies with Pope St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis at the Vatican. Her travels to holy places sparked a desire to learn more about her Catholic faith. She has enjoyed the study of apologetics and all things Marian, most especially the apparitions of Our Lady and what Her messages mean for us. A lifelong student, Stephanie is presently studying the writings of the mystics of the Carmelite Order through the Center for Carmelite Studies at Catholic University. She continues to orchestrate faith-based group pilgrimages to near and far places, with the hope of offering pilgrims ‘mountaintop’ encounters with God.