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Jubilees

Jubilees

Answering priestly call leads to 10 years of ministry and counting

When Father Kevin Manthey was 11, a priest celebrating Mass at his Wisconsin Boy Scout camp told the scouts they shouldn’t let fear of public speaking stop them from becoming a priest, and the shy boy from Farmington was inspired.
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Women and men in religious communities mark milestone anniversaries

The Catholic Spirit is honored to highlight the members of women’s and men’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.
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Jesuit Father Linn celebrates 50 years of priesthood with gratitude

Asked as he celebrates 50 years of priesthood what drew him to religious life and international retreat work that integrates physical, emotional and spiritual healing, Jesuit Father Matthew Linn didn’t hesitate.
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60-year religious sister reflects on teaching ministry, consecrated life

Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Mary Margaret Murphy said witnessing the religious sisters’ joy and hospitality served as inspiration for her own path.
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Congratulations jubilarians!

The Catholic Spirit is honored to celebrate the priests who are marking significant anniversaries of their ordination to the priesthood this year. In addition to jubilarians celebrating 10, 25 and 50 years of ministry who spoke with reporter Susan Klemond and are featured on these two pages, the men listed on pages 16 and 17 are celebrating 10, 25, 50 and 60 years of priestly ministry this year.  
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Father Richards leads and receives support from ‘parish family’

As the youngest of 14 children, what Father Peter Richards learned growing up on the Iron Range in Biwabik in northeast Minnesota has helped him minister to Catholics as a priest in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for the past 25 years.
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Father Marquard finds that skills, wisdom gained will help second decade as priest

As he celebrates 10 years as a priest in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Father Luke Marquard described an earlier decade of his life during which he ran away from a priestly vocation — but God proved that time fruitful for Marquard’s ministry today.
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Father Fitzpatrick united parishes and navigated Vatican II changes

From being a founding class member of a new seminary program in the late 1960s to pausing his retirement this year to help a parish transition between pastors, Father Robert Fitzpatrick has seen himself as a bridge during his 50 years as an archdiocesan priest.
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Religious women and men mark milestone anniversaries

The Catholic Spirit is honored to highlight and celebrate milestone jubilees of women’s and men’s religious communities who are serving or have served in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
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SSND sister calls 25 years of religious life ‘so worth it’

Sister Jill Laszewski was clipping along in a successful telecommunications career in the early 1990s when a mission trip to Nicaragua caused a major redirect — toward a religious vocation with the School Sisters of Notre Dame. This year marks the 25th anniversary of her first profession of vows to the order.
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Oblate priest finds richness in retreats, parish ministry

Serving at a parish in an inner-city, dangerous part of Miami that included?being held up at gunpoint is among the memorable moments of Father Richard Sudlik’s 50 years of priesthood in the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.?
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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 addition to three jubilarians featured in profiles, the following men are observing these significant anniversaries of their ordination to the priesthood. Congratulations to all of the archdiocesan priests — including those not listed below — celebrating milestone anniversaries this year.
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