John Joseph D. Schweska

      John is a Licensed Professional Counselor and has worked with the dying, those in grief and crisis, as well as displaced and emotionally challenged children. He is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and received his Masters in Counseling from Hunter College and a Masters in Systematic Theology from Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University. John worked on the Passionist Retreat Team for three years in Riverdale, NY. He is also the author of two books on St Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin: Following the Light of the Cross and At the Cross with Mary. John has been part of the a Arch-confraternity of the Passion since he was a teenager, as well as the Arch-confraternity-Union of the Precious Blood, and is invested as a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.