MILESTONES Devlin and Nicole Hessig (Current PMin student) are proud to announce the birth of Elias David Hessig, born Sunday, August 4th at 9:26 a.m. 8lbs 4 oz. 21-1/2 inches of amazing blessing! Thank you everyone for the prayers and support.
priestly ministry, Flannery has served as associate pastor, high school guidance counselor and religion teacher, coordinator of the Teens Encounter Christ retreat program, diocesan vocation director, director of continuing education of the clergy, seminary spiritual director at The American College Seminary in Leuven, Belgium, vicar of Rev. Robert B. Flannery permanent deacons, director of ecumenical and interreligious affairs, member of the diocesan liturgy, pro-life, ministry to priests, priest-wellness, pastoral plan and restructuring committees, priest convocation chairperson, diocesan consultor, president, vice-president and treasurer of the presbyteral council, chair of the diocesan millennium committee, priest personnel board member, dean of the South Deanery, and pastor for 29 years in four parishes in Southern Illinois as well as canonical pastor for six parishes during his tenure as dean. Appointed in 1998 as the ecumenical and interreligious officer for the diocese, he was elected regional representative and then president of the Catholic Association of Diocesan Ecumenical and Interreligious Officer for two three-year terms continuing to serve as chair of the summer institutes committee, a member of the faiths in the world committee, and the board of directors. Father Flannery was appointed by the president of the United States Bishops’ Conference to the Catholic delegation of Christian Churches Together in the U.S.A., and as a member of the National Planning Committee for the National Workshop on Christian Unity for nine years, was selected as chair of the conference held in Oklahoma City in 2012. He has served on three committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and has been chair or committee member of two national Catholic association conferences. Since 1998, he has been a board member, vice-president and now co-chair of the Illinois Conference of Churches. He was a 2009 recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award from Saint John’s University in where he previously served on the Alumni Association Board of Directors and has been a member of the School of Theology Board of Overseers since 2011.
Brent Derowitsch (MDiv, 2013) received a staff chaplain position at Fairview Ridges Hospital, beginning work this fall. Fr. Mark Scott (a member of the SOT Board of Overseers, was elected the abbot of New Melleray earlier this month. http://www.newmelleray.org/newsindex.asp Br. Ephrem Poppish, OCSO (MA, Monastic Studies, 1996) of New Melleray Abbey in Iowa from about 15 years ago. He was ordained a priest on August 20, 2013. Ted Ulrich (MA, Spirituality, 1996) received tenure at the University of St. Thomas in 2007, and was promoted from Associate to full Professor this past school year. At St. Thomas he enjoys teaching, writing, and taking his students to India. Rev. Danny Murphy (MA Liturgical Studies, 2000)has been appointed the new executive secretary of the Council for Liturgy of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference and director of the National Centre for Liturgy. Rev. Robert B. Flannery (MA Theology, 1973), a priest of the Diocese of Belleville in Southern Illinois, celebrated his 40th Anniversary as a priest on Sunday June 2nd. He is a graduate of the college and seminary at Saint John’s University and did graduate work at The Catholic University of Louvain in Leuven, Belgium. During his 40 years of
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