The power of Beauty at work. Guadalupe Roastery x Zeale x Dony MacManus
As we continue to step into 2026, I’m excited to share some meaningful news. We’re proud to announce a new brand partnership with CatholicVote. Earlier in 2025, their media company Zeale acquired the exclusive rights to a film I produced titled “Clash of the Masters.”
You might be wondering: What does a coffee company have to do with producing films?
The answer goes back to our founding vision. Guadalupe Roastery has always been more than a coffee company. From the beginning, our mission was to build a business that evangelizes and funds evangelization.
In the early days, my wife designed an image for the back of our first coffee bags. It was a simple diagram showing the flow:
Coffee → Conversation → Community → Culture.
And it proved true. Coffee became the catalyst for many meaningful conversations with people using their gifts to share the beauty of the Catholic faith.
One of those people was Irish sculptor Dony MacManus. From our first conversation, it was clear Dony carried a rare ability to articulate beauty in a way that leads people to truth. Because the namesake of Guadalupe Roastery is Our Lady of Guadalupe, the most beautiful of all God’s creation, I felt compelled to attach Dony’s vision of beauty to our brand. If we could express beauty faithfully, I believed the company could fulfill its purpose as a means of evangelization in the marketplace and scale its mission to the masses.
We produced a film featuring Dony, and after that, I cast out into the deep—into the unknown—with a sense of faith that I would meet God there. I invested everything I could to capture more of his work on camera. Eventually, the funding ran dry, and we paused production for several years. The dream felt too big to fulfill, yet I continued to desire its completion. I carried that desire forward and entrusted the entire mission to the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the place where all our missions find their fulfillment.
God, however, has a way of reopening doors.
Through a mutual friend of Dony’s, I met Zeale, who saw the potential of placing these films on a larger platform, including the audience at Catholic Vote. Hope sprang up again. I sensed that the Mystical Body of Christ, under the mantle of Our Lady of Guadalupe, was taking this effort and making it new.
Today, I’m thrilled to share that Guadalupe Roastery is now a content partner for Zeale. I invite you to visit their platform, watch the content, and experience the beauty we are striving to share with the world.
And finally, if you would like to help bring more of Dony’s art to life through film, one of the most direct ways you can support this mission is simple: order from Guadalupe Roastery. Each purchase helps us sponsor more of his creative work and share it with you and countless others.
Thank you for your support, your prayers, and your belief in what coffee can inspire.
Zeale is a new digital platform created to reclaim media for what is true, good, and beautiful. Join Zeale for free: https://bit.ly/ZealeSignUp-GR