Parish Staff

Pastor

 

Rev. Stanley Mader was born in 1956, the fourth of seven children and grew up on a diary farm just outside St. Bonifacius, Minnesota. He attended Catholic grade school throughout and graduated from Winsted Holy Trinity High School in 1974 and went on to earn a BA in Mathematics from St. John’s University in 1978. For the next ten years he was a system software specialist on large mainframe computers. Six of those years were with Burroughs Corporation (now Unisys), and for four years he had his own computer consulting business. After years of considering the priesthood, in 1988 he was accepted into the seminary to study for priesthood for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and was ordained a priest on May 30, 1992.

The first two years 1992-1994 of his priesthood were at St. Joseph in Hopkins. Then from 1994-1998 he had a dual assignment of co-director of the Vocation Office for the Archdiocese while serving as associate pastor at St. Mark’s in St. Paul. For the past eleven years 1998-2009 he had been pastor at Our Lady of the Lake Church in Mound Minnesota.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The mission of St. Mathias Parish is to proclaim and celebrate our salvation through Jesus Christ,our pilgrimage to the Father’s Kingdom enlivened by the Holy Spirit. Our Catholic faith community is nourished by our sacramental life, especially the Sunday celebration of the Eucharist. With Mother Mary as our model, we demonstrate our faith through worship, education, vocations and service.