Father Terry Beeson

Pastor
Phone: 507-263-2578
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Instead of a straight bio of my life, I thought I would 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