Clergy

Pastor

Rev. Richard Walling - [email protected]

Parochial Vicars

Rev. Jeffrey Silver - [email protected]

Rev. Nam Vu - [email protected]

Deacons

Bill Brunsman - [email protected]

Jeff Merrell - [email protected]

Mike Mignery - [email protected]

Beacons of Light Family Leadership Team

Director of Administration

Sally Nieman – [email protected]

Director of Evangelization

Ben Wainscott – [email protected]

Director of Faith Formation

Cheryl Hunt – [email protected]

Director of Love in Action

Pam Long – [email protected]

Director of Operations

Chad Riegert – [email protected]

 

Fr. Rick Walling - Pastor
 I was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. My parents were Richard and Marianna (Riepenhoff) Walling. I am the oldest of their six children; I have two  sisters and three brothers (one of whom is deceased). I grew up in Corpus Christi Parish in Dayton, and attended the parish school there from first through eighth grade. It was the experience of serving at Mass that first got me thinking that maybe God was calling me to be a priest. At first I considered the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, but eventually contacted the Vocation office for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. I did my first two years of high school at Chaminade (now Chaminade-Julienne) in Dayton, and then entered Saint Gregory Seminary in Cincinnati as a junior in high school in 1968. I spent six years at Saint Greg’s, two in high school, and four in college. From 1974 to 1979, I was both a seminarian at the Pontifical North American College in Rome where I received formation for ordination and a student at the Pontifical Gregorian University where I did my theological studies. I was ordained a priest on July 30th, 1978, at my home parish in Dayton by Archbishop Bernardin. Saint Joseph, Hamilton native Father Lawrence J. Mick was the homilist at my first Mass of Thanksgiving. From 1979 to 1981, I was on the 
faculty at Carroll High School in Dayton and helped out at the Church of the Incarnation, Centerville. From 1981 to 1984, I lived in Washington D.C. and did graduate studies in theology at the Catholic University of America where I received my Doctor of Sacred Theology degree in 1989. From 1984 to 1995, I was on the faculty of the Athenaeum of Ohio, Mount Saint Mary Seminary, and also taught in the Lay Pastoral Ministry Program and helped with Sunday Masses at Saint Columbkille Parish, Wilmington. From 1995 to 2007, I was pastor of Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus Parish, Springfield. From 2007 to now, I have been pastor of three parishes in Mercer County: Holy Trinity, Coldwater; Saint Mary, Philothea; and Saint Anthony in Saint Anthony. My hobbies include reading, playing golf, 
watching golf, following the Reds, Bengals, Buckeyes and now the Badin Rams, and napping (not all at the same time.) I enjoy being a priest. I love celebrating the Sacraments and sharing our wonderful Catholic faith. 

 

Fr. Jeffrey Silver - Parochial Vicar
Fr. Jeff was born in the middle of the last century in Cincinnati. After a few family moves around eastern Cincinnati and a brief couple of years in Parma, Ohio, Jeff eventually graduated from St. Vincent Ferrer School 
(1969), St. Xavier High School (1973) - both in Cincinnati, and went on to study English (B.A., 1976) and Chemistry (B.S., 1976) at Miami University, Oxford, OH. Fr. Silver stayed on at Miami working on his Ph.D. in 
Chemistry before deciding to enter seminary.Ordained as a deacon in 1983, Jeff served as deacon at St. Mary Church, Hyde Park. After being ordained as a priest in 1984, he was posted to St. Ann, Hamilton, as an assistant. This first assignment was followed by postings to St. William, Cincinnati (1986-1989), followed by service at St. Mary, Oxford until 1992. From 1992 Jeff served as hospital chaplain at Bethesda North and Jewish hospitals during which time he was administrator first at St. Clare, Cincinnati and then at All Saints in Montgomery. From 1994-2005 Fr. Jeff was pastor at St. Julie Billiart, Hamilton. From St. Julie, Jeff served as pastor of St. Michael, Sharonville (2005-2007). In 2007 Fr. Silver returned to St. Mary, Oxford as pastor. He has served at St. Mary as pastor for the last 15 years. 

 

Archbishop Schnurr has formally appointed Father Nam Vu, S.V.D. as parochial vicar for our C-6 Saint Stephen Family of Parishes. Fr. Nam was born in Vietnam, but was raised in Cincinnati, where he went to schools at Holy Family and Elder. He was ordained a priest in 2010 for the Society of the Divine Word (S.V.D. are the Latin initials), a missionary religious order whose members serve the Church in eightyfour countries worldwide. He is fluent in Spanish, having spent two years in Argentina, and most recently serving at Saint Patrick Parish in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the Sunday Masses are in English, Spanish and Vietnamese. Fr. Vu is looking forward to sharing his priestly life and ministry with us, and I am excited to have him join us. His assignment begins July 1st