Thursday, February 16, 2012

2012 St. Boniface Men's Retreat

On Saturday, February 11th St. Boniface Church held its annual men's retreat. Each year, the retreat offers the men of the parish an opportunity to reflect on virtues, review their priorities, pray, and receive the sacraments.

The 2012 retreat featured Fr. Joseph Minuth, OP from the St. Thomas Aquinas parish at Purdue University in West Lafayette. According to the parish website, Father Joseph Minuth, OP, grew up in El Paso, TX, where he attended St. Clement's Elementary School, an Episcopalian school, and graduated from Cathedral High School, a Catholic school run by the Christian Brothers. He worked in sales and marketing for computer companies such as Cisco Systems and Microsoft. He also worked in the San Joaquin Valley in California for his uncle's campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives. While in the Dominican Order, he has worked for the Office of Evangelization in the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Vocation's Office for the Dominican Province of St. Albert the Great, as well as parishes and university campuses in Minneapolis, Chicago, Denver, southern Illinois, and St. Louis.

Fr. Joseph focused the retreat on the virtues of purity, humility, and friendship in that order. We hope you enjoy the retreat as much as we did.