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 Rev. Joseph Chamblain, OSM, Pastor
[jchamblain@assumption-chgo.org] A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Fr. Joe worked for several years as a librarian, before entering the Servite Formation Program in 1978. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1984. He has ministered in Servite parishes in central New Jersey, St. Louis, and Chicago, and has served as editor for a number of Servite publications. He has given parish missions and retreats throughout the country. From 1993 to 1999 Fr. Joe was Assistant Provincial of the Eastern Province of Servites. In 2006 he was named Director of the National Shrine of St. Peregrine (the cancer saint) at Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica and Part-time Associate at Assumption. In 2009 he became Pastor of Assumption. |
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 Rev. John Fontana, OSM:
Fr. Fontana was born in Chicago in 1951. He studied at Fenwick High School, St. Louis University, the Servites' Marianum in Rome, and Creighton University, where he earned a Master's in Christian Spirituality. Ordained in 1978, he spent his first years of priesthood at Annunciata Parish in Chicago. For ten years he was Formation Director for Servite Seminarians in St. Louis. Between 1991 and 2006, he ministered as a Spiritual Director, Retreat Leader, Parish Mission Preacher, and Part-time Associate at Seven Holy Founders Parish in St. Louis. He was also a Spiritual Director on the staff of the St. Louis Consultation Center, a theraputic and spiritual treatment for priests and religious women and men. He served in leadership for the USA Province of Servites as Assistant Provincial from 2006 to 2009 and as Provincial from 2009 to 2020. He moved to Assumption in July, 2020. He presently ministers as a Spiritual Director, at the National Shrine of St. Peregrine at Our Lady of Sorrows, and in pastoral ministry at Assumption. |
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 Rev. John T. Pawlikowski, OSM:
[jpawlikowski@assumption-chgo.org] Father John Pawlikowski is Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics at Catholic Theological Union (where he taught for almost 50 years) and is the author of fifteen books. He has been a participant/speaker in Christian/Jewish/Muslim dialogues in Spain, Rome, Haifa, Israel and throughout the United States. His scholarly interests include the theological and ethical aspects of the Christian-Jewish relationship and public ethics. A leading figure in the Christian-Jewish dialogue, he has served as president of the International Council of Christians and Jews and is author of Christ in the Light of the Christian Jewish Dialogue and co-editor with Judith Banki of Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust. |
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