Some people explain the Bible. Dr Mary Healy makes it come alive.

One of the most beloved Scripture teachers in the Catholic world today, Dr Healy is a professor of Sacred Scripture, a bestselling author, and an international speaker, with acclaimed commentaries on Mark, Hebrews and Genesis to her name. She was also among the first women ever appointed by Pope Francis to the Pontifical Biblical Commission.

But what sets her apart isn't the list of achievements. It's her rare gift for drawing people past the page and into a deeper, more personal encounter with God.

That's exactly the conversation waiting for you on Grace Abounds.

Marcel LeJeune built one of the world's largest Catholic campus ministries from scratch. Now he coaches parishes. On 18 July, he brings that hard-won wisdom to the Parish Renewal Conference.

When Marcel LeJeune arrived at St Mary's Catholic Centre at Texas A&M University in 2006, he inherited a ministry with two priests, a part-time deacon, a leaking roof, and no budget to speak of. By the time he left 11 years later, there were 63 staff, a $3.5 million budget, state-of-the-art facilities, 5,000 students at Sunday Mass, and fifteen students entering the priesthood or religious life each year.

Now the founder and president of Catholic Missionary Disciples, an international coaching organisation dedicated to forming disciple-makers who make disciple-makers, LeJeune has taken that playbook to parishes and dioceses across the United States and beyond. On 18 July, he brings it to Sydney as a guest speaker at the Parish Renewal Conference, hosted by the Parish Renewal Team within the Sydney Centre for Evangelisation.

They have spent more than a decade sitting with the messiness of marriage and family life and finding in it not failure, but the very path to holiness. Now Mike and Alicia Hernon, founders of the Messy Family Project and hosts of one of America's most beloved Catholic family podcasts, are coming to Sydney in May, bringing with them a message that Catholic parents across Australia desperately need to hear: you are not failing, and you are not alone.