Our Next Associate Pastor

As this is written, the Creighton Prep website is asking for information for "Lost Alumni." Under the Class of 1990, they are searching for Patrick Nields. He's not hiding in a cave.

He was actually on the front cover of the most recent issue of The Catholic Voice and on July 1st Fr. Pat will be our new Associate Pastor. In the meantime he will be ordained a priest on June 4th.

So you know, Nields rhymes with fields. After his ordination, he prefers to be called Fr. Pat.

The pictures above are from a Holy Land Retreat and Pilgrimage through Kenrick-Glennon Seminary. Their journey included a five-day canonical retreat on the Mount of Beatitudes and visits Jerusalem and various sites in the Holy Land. Above Dcn Pat reads during Mass on the shore of Lake Galilee. Two other pictures above are by the shores of Lake Galilee.

In the picture above, Dcn Pat (below right) is at the "Wailing Wall" of the temple in Jerusalem.

Fr. Dave spoke about Dcn Pat in the bulletin this weekend. He also noted that you will be able to meet Fr. Pat if your sign up for the Picnic with the Padres on June 26th.

Fr. Damian once noted that a priest's first parish forms him. We thank Archbishop Lucas both for gifting him to us and entrusting us to help shape him.

Welcome Fr Jason

Fr. Jason Singalness is a seminary classmate of Fr. Vogel. He stopped to visit and con-celebrated Mass with Fr. Vogel this morning. In the Bismarck, North Dakota diocese he is the pastor of Sts. Peter & Paul in Strasburg, St. Mary in Hague and St. Michael in rural Linton. Strasburg is the hometown of Lawrence Welk. Fr Jason said there are often visitors to the sod house where the Welk family once lived.

It was great to have him stop by our parish on his way to visit Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis. We pray he has a good and safe vacation.

Pastor, Church of Sts. Peter & Paul (Strasburg), Church of St. Mary (Hague), Church of St. Michael (rural Linton) - See more at: http://bismarckdiocese.com/index.cfm?load=org&org=101#sthash.0vMN9P9D.dpuf

Pastor, Church of Sts. Peter & Paul (Strasburg), Church of St. Mary (Hague), Church of St. Michael (rural Linton) - See more at: http://bismarckdiocese.com/index.cfm?load=org&org=101#sthash.0vMN9P9D.dpuf

More on Souls and Goals

As previously mentioned, Fr. Vogel was recently in St. Louis to compete for the...

... Souls and Goals Soccer Cup.

The game designed to show that priests and men studying for the priesthood take part in normal activities with joy and drew over 1,000 spectators.

Before the game, The Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus led the teams and the crowd in evening prayer.

In the game, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary Lions soccer team (who play in the CYC's adult soccer league) faced Clergy and Co., a team of priests and a few of their friends.

 It was a tight game that was scoreless at halftime...

... but the seminarians pulled at a 2-0 win in the end.

You can read more about this in the St. Louis Review. They were the source of the pictures shown above.

Souls and Goals

The last few weeks Fr Vogel has been practicing and preparing play in a big soccer game last night. He wasn't the only one excited for the game:

Last night there was a standing room only crowd for Souls and Goals: Soccer Cup 2013. There clergy, like Fr Vogel, took on the Lions of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary. (They took their mascot from Archbishop Kenrick's motto, noli irritare Leonem, "Do not anger the lion.")

In the end the Lions won 2-0 in this event held to promote vocations. Thank you to Katie Pesha of the St. Louis Achdiocese for sharing the news and some pictures.