Fr. Dermot Roache, SMA, is a native New Yorker and has served as a missionary priest with the SMA Fathers (Society for African Missions) in rural parts of Africa as well as in US urban parish settings in Jersey City and Boston. He was recently named provincial of the American Province of the SMA Fathers, located in Tenafly, New Jersey.
Fr. Roache directs retreats and missions in many dioceses around the US for both laity and religious. He has a deep love for Our Lady and the Eucharist. Through an experience Fr. Roache had in South Africa, a special apostolate was founded. Family Divine Mercy is dedicated to the healing of the family through The Divine Mercy. It is most associated with a particular prayer he authored called, “Act of Consecration of the Family to the Divine Mercy.” Fr. Roache recently published a book of Marian reflections entitled, I am the Virgin Mother of God and Your Mother Too.