I retired in 2004 from the County School system after 25 years of teaching; I have been the Secretary here at Sacred Heart for seven years now. I also help in our music ministry playing the Keyboard and the Pipe Organ.

I have been blessed with four children ( James, deceased; Timothy, Doug & Tamara), with two grand daugthers, Amy & Angela, and one great -grandchild, Savanah.

I beaame Catholic 25 years ago and I am a Third Order Benedictine (Oblate of St. Benedict) affiliated with Sacred Heart Monastery in Yanktown, South Dakota.

I am a member of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) religious order, and was oradined priest in India on May 12th 1983. Since 1992 I was doing priestly ministry in the US. I have served in the Diocese of Joileit, Illinois, for several years before I came to the Diocese of Nashville. I am serving as Pastor of Scared Heart Church, Lawrencenburg, since 2008.