Hometown: Cedar Rapids, IA
Year in Formation: Postulant
College: United States Air Force Academy
College Degree: Humanities
Career Before Formation: Intelligence Officer
Patron Saint: Wenceslaus
Favorite Movie: “’71,” “A Man for All Seasons,” “Casino”
Favorite Books: Plato’s “Gorgias,” Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot,” Zweig’s “The World of Yesterday”
Favorite Music: Country
Hobbies: Philosophy, Two-Stepping, Skiing
Most Memorable Prayer/Liturgy you have Attended: 2026 Good Friday Service at St. Mark’s in Niles, MI
Place of Pilgrimage you Most Want to Visit and why: Jerusalem to see where Christ died and rose
Favorite Way to Pray: In a church in front of a tabernacle
What drew you to Holy Cross? The men of Holy Cross and their zeal for educating the Christian faithful.
Favorite Verse: Do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6: 31 – 34)
Favorite Quote: “Christianity … has somewhat mitigated that brutal Germanic love of war, but it could not destroy it. Should that subduing talisman, the cross, be shattered, the frenzied madness of the ancient warriors, that insane Berserk rage of which Nordic bards have spoken and sung so often, will once more burst into flame. This talisman is fragile, and the day will come when it will collapse miserably. Then the ancient stony gods will rise from the forgotten debris and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes, and finally Thor with his giant hammer will jump up and smash the Gothic cathedrals … Do not smile at the visionary who anticipates the same revolution in the realm of the visible as has taken place in the spiritual. Thought precedes action as lightning precedes thunder. German thunder is of true Germanic character; it is not very nimble, but rumbles along ponderously. Yet, it will come and when you hear a crashing such as never before has been heard in the world’s history, then you know that the German thunderbolt has fallen at last. At that uproar the eagles of the air will drop dead, and lions in the remotest deserts of Africa will hide in their royal dens. A play will be performed in Germany which will make the French Revolution look like an innocent idyll.” -Heinrich Heine, 1835
How can visitors to this page pray for you? Please pray that I might grow in humility, wisdom, and strength.