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Women and men in religious communities mark milestone anniversaries

The Catholic Spirit is honored to highlight members of men’s and women’s religious communities who are celebrating milestone jubilees of 10, 25, 50, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, and 80+ years this year, and who are serving or who have served in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
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Celebrating 25 years: Jesuit Brother Cordero finds his true calling

In 1990, when Jesuit Brother Ralph Cordero graduated from Ohio State University, College of Optometry, he felt that his dream to be a doctor had come true. Upon returning to his hometown of Lorain, Ohio, Cordero opened his own optometric practice.
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Sister Mary Anne Schaenzer Celebrating 6 decades of sharing the love of Christ

For Sister Mary Anne Schaenzer, the past 60 years have been a wonderful gift. She was 20 years old when, on July 17, 1965, she took her first vows with the School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND), followed by her final vows in the summer of 1970.
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Congratulations jubilarians!

In addition to Father Greg Esty and Father John Klockeman, The Catholic Spirit is honored this year to highlight other priests of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis who are marking 50 years or 25 years of ministry. Members of men's and women's religious communities who are marking milestone anniversaries this year, and who are serving or have served in the archdiocese, will be recognized in our July 10 edition. With gratitude and joy, we congratulate all those celebrating major anniversaries.
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Father Klockeman celebrates 25 years as an archdiocesan priest

Father John Klockeman brings a wealth of experience to his ministry at St. Bartholomew in Wayzata, but he is grateful for continuing opportunities to learn and develop. He was assigned as pastor of St. Bartholomew’s in 2021, after two years as pastor of St. Gerard in Brooklyn Park and following 16 years as a spiritual director and formation director at St. John Vianney College Seminary in St. Paul and at The St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity in St. Paul, where he also taught classes.
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Father Esty highlights teamwork in his 50 years of priestly ministry

Father Greg Esty grew up on St. Paul’s east side and entered seminary in the ninth grade at Nazareth Hall in Roseville, a school that educated students from 1923 to 1970 and is now part of the University of Northwestern-St. Paul campus in Roseville and Arden Hills. After college at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, he left for graduate studies in Rome and was ordained a priest by Pope Paul VI on June 29, 1975.
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Celebrating jubilarians

The Catholic Spirit is honored to highlight the members of men’s and women’s religious communities who are celebrating milestone jubilees this year and who are serving or who have served in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. The following information was provided by the religious communities.
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Redemptorist priest marks half a century of preaching the Gospel

Father Francisco (Paco) Pérez Colunga was a 10-year-old praying the rosary in Mexico when a wealthy and influential woman offered him an elementary education at a school run by the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, or Redemptorists.
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Religious sister brings Christ’s compassion to others

Sister Rose Maura Okongwu said she bases her life on Jesus as she celebrates 25 years of ministry in the Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of Christ.
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Congratulations jubilarians!

The Catholic Spirit is honored to celebrate the priests who are marking 10, 25, 50 and 60 years of priestly ministry this year in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. In addition to the jubilarians featured (Father Bob White, Father Tom Margevicius, Father Kevin Manthey), the following men are observing these significant anniversaries of their ordination to the priesthood.
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Despite eyesight challenge, ministry still going strong after 50 years

During the second half of his 50-year diocesan priesthood, St. Victoria in Victoria pastor Father Bob White, 76, has had only peripheral vision because of a hereditary eye condition that manifested in the 1990s and has made it difficult for him to read, manage some parish ministries and, more recently, drive.
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Cleveland native drawn to the archdiocese by Companions of Christ

Before Father Tom Margevicius started grade school, he was already thinking about the priesthood and imitating his pastor’s movements during Mass at his family’s parish in Cleveland, Ohio.
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