JMJ

My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

It is good to greet each of you in this pastoral page. To help you get to know me a little better I would like to share with you who I am. I was born the second of five children to Ted and Carolyn Dudzinski in Lafayette, Ind. My oldest sister Marie Mann is married to Kevin and they reside in the Memphis, TN area with their two daughters, Shelby and Kylie. I have two younger brothers, Frs. Andrew and Brian. Fr. Andrew is now serving as Pastor at St. Mary in Muncie. Fr. Brian and I, by the grace of God, were ordained together on June 7, 1997. Fr. Brian is the founding Pastor of St. John Vianney, our newest parish in Fishers, Ind. My baby sister Margie Crooks is married to Bill and resides in the Detroit, MI area along with their son, Joshua (that’s him with me in the picture – I was helping him outline his hand in Kids Korner at the 2009 Indiana Holy Family Catholic Conference).
Growing up, my family lived in rural Lafayette, where my parents still reside. This proved to be a blessing for me personally as I developed a great appreciation and love for the outdoors. I also have a great love for sports.
To my parents, I am indebted and owe a great deal of thanks for nurturing the great gifts of faith, hope and charity received at my baptism. Family prayer was a very important component of our daily life. Together we prayed at meals, in the evening and before bedtime. We understood our relationship with God to be the foundation of our lives.
I firmly believe that my family life was the seedbed for my vocation. While I didn’t enter the seminary until I was 27 years old, the foundation was firmly in place. In my life the priesthood is the greatest gift God has bestowed upon me. I can’t imagine doing or being anything else than a priest. Upon my ordination to the Priesthood of Jesus Christ, I was assigned to St. Patrick. My first assignment lasted from 1997-2000 when the Bishop sent me to Rome to study Canon Law. Upon completing my degree in 2002, I returned to St. Patrick as Pastor, while also receiving the appointment of Episcopal Vicar for the newly established Permanent Diaconate Program.
Since I have been in Kokomo for twelve years as a priest I have had the awesome privilege of leading our spiritual families at both St. Joan of Arc and St. Patrick to a deeper relationship with Jesus through His mother Mary. I pray that you take the time to reflect and read the information contained on my Pastor’s Page.
St. Joan of Arc pray for us!

Fr. Ted Dudzinski
Pastor

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Lent 2010

Pope Benedict XVI Lenten Message�
My Lenten letter
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My Pastoral Letters

Fr. Ted’s Pastoral Letter Ad Mundi Sanctificationem – For the Sanctification of the World

Fr. Ted’s Pastoral Letter Manete in Dilectione Mea – Remain in My Love

Fr. Ted’s Family Initiative Letter

Fr. Ted’s Pro-Life Letter 1-15-2010

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The information listed below is very important to me and I want to encourage you to read it and or learn more about it. 

• How are we doing on Catholic Youth Formation?
  Click here to see St. Joan of Arc and Sts. Joan of Arc and Patrick School Acre results.
• Health Care Reform

We need to know what our government is proposing for our healthcare and how it impacts what we believe as Catholics. To read the USCCB’s position on Health Care Reform visit this website http://www.usccb.org/healthcare/.
To view a 25 slide presentation on the Catholic Church’s standing on the Healthcare Debate, please click here.

• What is YOUR Temperament?
  
  What are the four temperaments?
  The four temperaments were originally proposed by Hippocrates (the “father of medical science”) 350 years before the birth of Christ, to explain differences in personalities, based on the predominant bodily fluid—hence the rather unappealing names: choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, and melancholic. Even today these same terms are used to describe temperament, by which we mean an individual’s tendency to react in a certain way throughout their life, forming an identifiable pattern.
  For example, the choleric tends to react quickly and intensely, and to take action immediately and decisively. The sanguine is your classic “people person,” known for their warmth, enthusiasm, and cheerful optimism. The melancholic is deeply thoughtful and analytic, slow to respond, skeptical, sensitive, and idealistic. The phlegmatic is usually a “peace-maker”—slow to react, calm, cooperative, and reserved.

To find out what your temperament is go to this website www.4marks.com , become a member and take the temperaments test. The test is comprised of 120 questions and takes about 20 minutes to complete.

This is what you need to do:

1.    Go to the website www.4marks.com

2.    Register as a member (do not use your email address as your username)

3.    Choose the tab “explore” and then choose temperaments

4.    Take the test! It takes about 20 minutes.

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Year of the Priest

During this Year Of The Priest please pray for the priests of the World, those in the Diocese-of-Lafayette, our priests in Kokomo, those in Seminary and those discerning the priesthood that they may be the Holy Priests that God has called them to be.

More information about the Year of the Priests:
Download the letter from the Pope.
Read the letter from the Pope.
Vatican’s website for the Year of the Priests.
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops – Year of the Priests.
Special Indulgence for the Year of the Priests.