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Father Terry Beeson

Fr. Beeson

Instead of a straight bio of my life, I thought I woud do a timeline to get a flavor. I tend to do a lot of personal references both in my preaching and my bulletin articles.

1960 Born in Saint Ansgar's Hospital, Moorhead, MN to William J and Kathleen Beeson, the youngest of 7.
1961 Moved from Dilworth, MN to Fargo, ND
1965 Broke my leg
1967-1975 Holy Spirit Catholic School, 1st Communion in 2nd grade, Confirmation in 5th, Altar boy from 6th to 8th
1975-1979 Shanley High School, Senior Mathematics Award, interested in Drama and Chess. Upon graduation stopped going to church. Just was not interested. Did not stop believing

1979-1980 Moorhead State. Campus radio stations was my extracurricular activity
1980 Moved to Minneapolis and attended Brown institute for Radio broadcasting. Worked for 2 years at a restaurant named "The Restaurant".
1981 Solved Ribik's Cube
1982 Got my first and only radio gig in Carrington, ND. Was fired six weeks later. Moved back to Fargo.
1983-1986 Joined the Army. Was a Medic stationed at Fort Dix, NJ.
1986 Honorably discharged from the Army and moved back to Minneapolis
1986-1999 Worked full time continuously at a plasma center in Minneapolis as a Phlebotomist and a QA Supervisor. Perfect attendance record. Continued to work full time while doing all the other activities in that timeline.
1988 Found my faith again and started going back to Church again at St. Olaf in Minneapolis. That led me to volunteer as a Eucharistic minister, Lector, counter of collection, and a part time job as usher/security.
1989-1991 Minneapolis Community College: Associate's degree in Accounting (Night School)
1992-1996 Metropolitan State University: Bachelor's degree in Accounting
1995 Felt God was calling me to the priesthood, but my will persisted.
1997-1999 Accountemps
1998 Finally gave in to God's call to the Priesthood and called the vocation office. The first person I talked to at the vocation office was Fr. Stan Mader.
1999-2005 Seminary, Teaching Parish: St. John the Baptist, New Brighton. Ordained in a class of 15 for the Archdiocese.
2005-2008 Associate Pastor at Saint Stephen's in Anoka.
2008-2009 Associated Pastor at Holy Spirit in Saint Paul
2009-July 13, 2014 Pastor at Saint John Vianney in South Saint Paul
July 14, 2014 Pastor Saint Pius V in Cannon Falls and Saint Joseph in Miesville







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