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Fr. Patrick Resen, Associate Pastor Father Patrick e-mailed us some brief highlights of his career. When we
mentioned that the information was very impressive, he retorted that he left
out all the bad parts. Such is his wonderful sense of humor. He
was born in Walla Walla, WA, but “left after 6 weeks.” His father was
career Air Force so he moved around some but grew up mostly in El Paso, TX. He attended Jesuit High School there and received his BA degree at UT El
Paso, his BS at the University of the State of NY, and his Master of Divinity
at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. He did his MA work at St. Mary of the
Woods in Indiana and his JD at the Univ. of Missouri. Father spent 32 ½
years in the U.S. Army, ten years on active duty and the rest in the
reserves. He has been a judge advocate, staff judge advocate and also a
trial judge. After leaving active duty he became a professor of law and
associate dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Law in Concord, CA. He is admitted to the bar in CA, D.C., NM, NE, and NY. He
enjoys scuba diving, reading, and travel. This biography, while very
impressive, does not reveal his great personality and quick wit.
Everyone will surely enjoy getting to knowing him. |
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Fr. John O’Neill, Associate Pastor
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Deacon Joseph Armento |
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Deacon Joe comes to us from Oak Ridge, where he lives with his wife,
Veronica, and daughter, Maria, who is studying for her doctorate in psychology
at U.T. He and Veronica were married 39 years ago by our beloved
Fr. Julius. He formerly worked on reactors at Oak Ridge National
Laboratories as a nuclear physicist, nuclear chemist and nuclear
engineer. He has been retired for 7 years. He was ordained a
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Most of
the parishioners at OLOF have probably not had the pleasure of meeting Fr.
John O’Neill, as he has administrative responsibility for St. Francis
Church in Townsend, and devotes most of his time there. I think
all are looking forward to the time when Father will have an opportunity to
say a mass at OLOF, or attend some church function here. We believe that
Father will prove to be a very interesting person and a wonderful asset to
OLOF and St. Francis. Father O'Neill was born in Dublin, Ireland, on Oct.1, the Feast of St. Therese. He is one of 8 children; he has six brothers and
one sister. The family has a great love of the Mass and deep devotion
to the Rosary. His parents were doctors, as are five of his
brothers. Father O”Neill is also a doctor. He has practiced
medicine in Dublin, Norwich, Manchester, Pakistan and Uganda. After his work in Uganda, he returned to Ireland through the Profile
Movement. Through the Legion of Mary and a very persistent religious
Sister of Charity, Sr. Manus Daly, he was referred to Bishop O’Connell.
Fourteen years later he is here in Tennessee with us.