Father carl beekman-biography

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Christ calls us all to a vocation.

On June 15, Father Carl Beekman becomes the pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Parish, one that has been served by Franciscan priests for 89 years.

On June 15, Father Carl Beekman becomes the pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Parish, one that has been served by Franciscan priests for 89 years.

We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees.

Father Beekman was born in Terre Haute, Ind., and attended Bedford North Lawrence High School in Bedford, Ind. He also attended Indiana University, the University of Southwest Louisiana and St. Joseph Seminary College in Covington, La. He studied philosophy at St.

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Our first vocation is to be holy, to be conformed more closely to His image and likeness. Growth in holiness is a continuous spiritual development, nurtured by the Sacraments, personal prayer and spiritual reading. A vocation is God's invitation or calling to each individual to love and serve Him and His Church in a particular state or way of life.

Our Catechism teaches us that "Through the sacrament of Holy Orders priests share in the universal dimensions of the mission that Christ entrusted to the apostles. The spiritual gift they have received in ordination prepares them, not for a limited and restricted mission, "but for the fullest, in fact the universal mission of salvation 'to the end of the earth," prepared in spirit to preach the Gospel everywhere." (CC 1565)

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