To truth
through beauty.
Our Vision:
We want to live in a world where every parish embodies its true Eucharistic identity.
After all, the Church exists in order to evangelize; this is her deepest identity (Evangelii Nuntiandi, p. 14). And the Eucharist is ordered toward this mission.
The Loreto Project is founded on the belief that when parishes foster beautiful Eucharistic devotion, they become empowered for their evangelistic mission.
Beauty leads to truth.
Beauty leads to a relationship with The Truth—Jesus Christ. Through beauty, He draws us into the deepest kind of relationship: a covenantal one.
We long for families and parishes to burn with Eucharistic devotion, so that they might joyfully fulfill their mission of bringing the world into the Eucharistic covenant. We want to live in a world where parishes embody their Eucharistic identity by:
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Deepening covenantal communion with the faithful already present.
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Gathering the lost sheep home into that same relationship.
Our Mission
We partner with parishes to develop and implement events, training, and strategy for deep, lasting cultural change.
Founded upon the principle that beauty leads to truth, our main strategy is to help a parish form a pastorally-minded monthly Eucharistic holy hour and community night.
This strategy is inspired by the Encounter Night structure and Walk With One movement put out by the USCCB through their National Eucharistic Revival page.
Extraordinary fruit is being born from times of Eucharistic Adoration that contain:
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Beautiful music that leads people into prayer.
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Powerful exhortation.
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Guided meditation.
We see this transformative reality through many movements of the Church in conferences, camps, parish missions and more.
The Loreto Project focuses on walking with parishes long-term. It is essential to the mission that the events are not only beautiful but also regular. It is also essential that teams are trained to not only help with logistics of the night but act as outreach.
Included within our mission, The Loreto Project releases music and media for Eucharistic Revival. These songs and videos have the intent to help individuals become more Eucharistic in prayer as well as to help form Eucharistic disciples.
Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.
Bishop Robert Barren
Joseph and Mary are a married couple who steward the Loreto Project together.
Though Joseph and Mary share a long-term love of music, they come from very different backgrounds.
Mary was raised as number six of nine children in a large, devout Catholic family.
She began playing music at the age of seven, quickly learning to love it not as performance, but as prayer.
By the time she was eleven, she was already leading music for Mass at her home parish. She continued developing her gifts through college and at Franciscan University, where she completed her Bachelor’s in Business. Since then, Mary has served through music at Masses, holy hours, retreats, and parish events—including the Franciscan Steubenville Conferences for three years and leading worship at a Franciscan University pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Joseph’s story begins very differently. He grew up in a house without faith and considered himself atheist. He started playing electric guitar at the age of 14, using it as a way to escape and find some peace. At nineteen, he joined a semi-professional metalcore band that released albums & music videos and played shows throughout West Michigan.
As the lifestyle intensified, he became wrapped up in addiction—and eventually found himself in a situation where his life was in danger.
In that moment, he cried out to God for help.
She began playing music at the age of seven, quickly learning to love it not as performance, but as prayer.
By the time she was eleven, she was already leading music for Mass at her home parish. She continued developing her gifts through college and at Franciscan University, where she completed her Bachelor’s in Business. Since then, Mary has served through music at Masses, holy hours, retreats, and parish events—including the Franciscan Steubenville Conferences for three years and leading worship at a Franciscan University pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Joseph’s story begins very differently. He grew up in a house without faith and considered himself atheist. He started playing electric guitar at the age of 14, using it as a way to escape and find some peace. At nineteen, he joined a semi-professional metalcore band that released albums & music videos and played shows throughout West Michigan.
As the lifestyle intensified, he became wrapped up in addiction—and eventually found himself in a situation where his life was in danger.
In that moment, he cried out to God for help.
God miraculously saved Joseph and freed him from his many addictions.
On his journey of conversion, Joseph walked away from the band and the lifestyle, even as the group was beginning to gain real momentum. In 2016 Joseph had a profound encounter with the Eucharist and Psalm 116 that would be a pivotal moment for him coming into the Catholic Church in 2018.
Since then, Joseph has pursued deep formation and faithful ministry. He earned a Bachelor’s in Philosophy from Franciscan University and now holds a Master’s Degree in Catechetics and Evangelization. He has served through music at Masses, holy hours, retreats, and parish missions, released an album, and led worship internationally through pilgrimages to Medjugorje and Lisbon/Fatima.
In his short time as a Catholic, Joseph has worked with over 20 parishes in 6 different states and some experiences with those in different countries. These were parishes of varying socio-economical standings, liturgical preferences and application, clustering dynamics, and even primary languages. At his first parish alone, he was intimately involved in over 20 ministries and a part of the upper leadership of the parish - working closely under the Pastor and his right-hand staff member. This relationship gave him incredible formation in understanding and seeing parish dynamic and culture in practical, economical, catechetical, and other ways. Joseph will also be starting studies for a Doctor of Ministry in Catechetics and Evangelization starting in the fall of 2026
Joseph and Mary met in Steubenville through the intercession of St. Joseph and the help of a local family. They were married on June 27th, 2024, on the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
Today, they serve as guides for parishes longing for renewal.
They help communities encounter Jesus in the Eucharist, deepen covenantal communion, and become empowered for mission.
The Church has received the Eucharist from Christ her Lord not as one gift—however precious—among so many others, but as the gift par excellence, for it is the gift of himself.
John Paul II
p. 11, ‘Ecclesia de Eucharistia’
Why The Loreto Project?
When Joseph and Mary were engaged, they sensed the Lord inviting them to offer their musical gifts together in a new way. In prayer, Mary received the name “The Loreto Project.” At the time, they did not understand why. But through God’s providence, they traveled to Italy for their honeymoon—and it was there, in Loreto, that the vision became clear.
In the shadow of the Holy House of Loreto—the home of the Annunciation—they began to understand their call.
Just as that house was carried across nations before coming to rest, they sensed that their mission would also be one of movement: traveling wherever the Lord sends them, helping build Eucharistic culture through music and catechesis, until they reach the place He prepares for them.
They call it a project intentionally. From the beginning, the vision was never simply to form a band, but to found an apostolate—one that would one day include other missionary musicians, united in forming parishes through beauty, truth, and Eucharistic devotion.