My Life of Ministry, Writing, Teaching, and Traveling
The Autobiography of an Old Mines Missionary
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My Life of Ministry, Writing, Teaching, and Traveling
The Autobiography of an Old Mines Missionary
About This Book
In My Life of Ministry, Writing, Teaching, and Traveling: The Autobiography of an Old Mines Missionary, I present my life as a child growing up in a French village about sixty miles south of St. Louis in the middle of the twentieth century. After eighteen years of life in Old Mines, the oldest settlement in the state of Missouri, I moved to St. Louis for four years and then to St. Meinrad, Indiana, for four years where education opened my eyes to a world very much larger than my village of origin. Life continued for me after ordination as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church in Springfield and Joplin, Missouri. Because my life is the thread stitching together this book, I have made it manageable by dividing it into four categories: ministry, writing, teaching, and travel. These categories contain the stories of others whose life threads of seventy years are woven into my lifetime tapestry. This is my autobiography--one of a missionary from Old Mines to the thirty-nine counties forming the southern third of the state of Missouri--composed during my seventieth year of life.
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- Title Page
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: From Birth to First Grade
- Chapter 2: From Second Grade through Fifth Grade
- Chapter 3: From Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
- Chapter 4: High School
- Chapter 5: College
- Chapter 6: St. Meinrad and Ordinations
- Chapter 7: Assignments in the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau
- Chapter 8: Teaching at Missouri State University
- Chapter 9: Mountain Climbing and Colorado
- Chapter 10: Ocean Cruises 1979â1990
- Chapter 11: Other Travels
- Chapter 12: Writing
- Chapter 13: Genuine Human Encounters
- Chapter 14: Three Major Incidents and Memorable Retreats
- Chapter 15: Conclusion