From The Associate Pastor’s Desk,

As you may have heard from my announcement at mass, Bishop Rice has asked me to take a new assignment. He is sending me to live in Doniphan and serve there as “parochial vicar,” which is another name for “associate pastor,” to work alongside pastor Fr. Daniel Robles who lives in Poplar Bluff. Together we will serve the needs of both places. I will miss St. Agnes. Thank you for all the happy memories here and thank you to all those who have already told me how much I will be missed. But if you’re reading this and remember a
time when I didn’t represent Christ well to you, please forgive me. Let’s pray for one another during this time of change. I need to continue growing as a priest so I can be a pastor one day. My new assignment starts Tuesday, August 4(not Aug 1, as I said at mass). As I leave, a new “parochial vicar” will
begin here: Fr Allen Kirchner of Jackson, MO who was just ordained on June 12.
May God bless you richly,
Father Joseph