Welcome to the Ocean Reef Catholic Community
Weekly Services
Catholic Mass will be celebrated on Saturdays at 4:00 PM in the Chapel’s Sanctuary.
Upcoming Visiting Priest
December 7 - Father Kastl - 4:00 PM
December 14 - Archbishop thomas wenski - 4:00 PM
January 11 - Father Don Farnan - 4:00 PM
January 18 - Bishop John Iffert - 4:00 PM
January 19 - Bishop John Iffert - 12:00 PM
January 26 - Father Brian Sullivan - 12:00 pm
February 9 - Father Kesicki - 12:00 pm
March 22 - Father Rocky Hoffman - 4:00 pm
April 27 - Father Fanta - 12:00 pm
Our first visiting priest, Fr. Gary Kastle, will be joining us on December 7. Fr. Gary Kastl is the full time Vicar General for the Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma. Ordained a priest for the Diocese of Tulsa in 2007, Fr. Kastl has served as the Associate Pastor at the Church of St. Mary, Pastor at St. Pius X, Pastor of St. Anne Catholic Church and has served in several leadership capacities for the Diocese of Tulsa, including Chair of the Priestly Life and Ministry Committee, the Director of Continuing Education for the Diocesan Clergy and the Coordinator of Priest Retreats and Study Days Fr. Kastl ministered in a full time capacity with Catholic Leadership Institute for two years as the Manager of Ministry Development before being asked to return to his diocese by his bishop to be a pastor of a parish. Fr. Kastl graduated from Conception Seminary College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts and continued his theological studies and formation at St. Meinrad School of Theology in Southern Indiana.
Fr Kastl has also completed a year long leadership intensive with the Stagen Institute in Dallas. Fr. Kastl is currently a member of many boards in the Diocese of Tulsa, Chaplain to the Legatus Chapter in Tulsa, Board member of Saint Francis Healthcare System, Tulsa. He is being sponsored by Mick Weber.
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With the Ocean Reef Catholic Community
We are a mission of St. Justin Martyr Catholic Church in Key Largo and the Archdiocese of Miami. Weekly Mass services are celebrated by Father Stephen Hilley from 11/2 - 05/24.
Father Stephen Hilley was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts and raised in Hollywood Florida. He was educated entirely in Catholic schools including the two seminaries in the Archdiocese of Miami: St. John Vianney and St. Vincent de Paul in Boynton Beach. He earned advanced degrees in both Philosophy and Theology and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1979. Father Hilley served as a Chaplain and classroom teacher at Christosper Columbus High School, where he was appointed to his first pastorate. Later he ministered as pastor in Palmetto Bay at St. Richard's before being assigned to St. Justin Martyr.
Please contact St. Justin parishsecretary@sjmkeylargo.org for any questions.
Officers and Directors Karin Teglia (Chair), Dan Attridge (Vice Chair), Marilyn Clark Karlovec (Treasurer), Meg Sellig (Secretary), Archbishop Thomas Wenski, George Blaha, Cyndi Dickens, Meg Shields, and Scott Ward