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Date of Ordination:May 6, 1978
Current Assignment:Pastor, St. Augustine’s in Peru

1.) What's your favorite prayer?
The Most Holy Rosary

2.) A holy moment in your priesthood:
The laying on of hands by the Bishop at Ordination and when the brother priests lay on hands afterward.

3.) Something you've learned from your brother priests (or a particular priest):
From Howard McCasland I learned the love of the priesthood and the devotion
to Mary the Mother of Priests.

5.) Favorite part of being a priest:
Meeting so many different people and being in different places and feeling at home
wherever I am.

6.) Advice for young people considering a vocation
As a priest for 31 years, I have never been lonely or bored and I have job security. It is the greatest adventure
one could ever experience in life.

7.) Something about you that few people would know:
I have been a collector of U.S. stamps since I was in the eighth grade.

8.) Favorite temporal (nonchurchy) things:
Working with my chain saw and working with my hands on different projects.

9.) Favorite food:
Anything my mother cooks; she is the best cook in the world!

10.) Favorite Saint:
Our Blessed Mother