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At the end of August, families will converge in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, for an EWTN-hosted event featuring speakers, children’s events, adoration, and Mass celebrated by Bishop Michael Burbidge.
The 2025 EWTN Family Celebration will take place at Capital One Hall on Aug. 30 and have free admission. Doors open for the celebration at 8 a.m., and confession and adoration will be available throughout the day. Participants will be able to meet EWTN hosts and friars at the “Family Corner,” and there will be an EWTN Kids Booth featuring faith-related activities for children. There will also be a “Meet the Author booth.”
The final event will be a Mass celebrated by Bishop Burbidge with the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word.
The event will also feature a lineup of speakers covering several topics of interest to American Catholics. Speakers include clinical psychologist Dr. Ray Guarendi, Catherine Hadro, and Father Joseph Mary Wolfe.
“A highlight of the day will undoubtedly be the Papal Roundtable, which will reunite EWTN’s conclave team to discuss the interregnum, conclave, and election of Pope Leo XIV, as well as what we can expect from the first American Pontiff,” EWTN Chairman and CEO Michael Warsaw said in a press release.
The panel will be hosted by EWTN Vatican Correspondent Colm Flynn, and feature EWTN News President Montse Alvarado, Matthew Bunson, Monsignor Roger Landry, who is the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the U.S., and EWTN Noticias Vatican correspondent Paola Flynn.
Last year’s event drew more than 2,200 people to Toronto, Ontario, according to the Catholic News Agency.
The celebration will be recorded and broadcast on EWTN a week later, according to the press release.
Paul Le Hoang, who attended in 2024, told Catholic News Agency that the talks at last year’s event helped him think more seriously about what true freedom is, and how following false ideas of freedom leads to “trouble and misery.”
“I think it will pull a lot of people back, an event like this, because I think people are hungry for something, something,” Hoang said. “And this can satisfy it.”
Participants must register here.
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