Education:

• BA (Spanish, Secondary Education, and Philosophy) Creighton University

• MDiv Oblate College of the Southwest BA

• Instituto de Verano (Spanish) Universidad Autónoma de México

• Father Tom Ovalle, OMI has been involved in the Education and Formation Programs of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

• Served as Campus Minister at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas

• Assigned Pastor of two parishes, Nuestra Senora de San Juan de los Lagos in San Antonio, Texas and St. Patrick’s in Houston, Texas

• Coordinated the Internship Program at OST for several years

• Director of Retreat House Ministries (Christian Renewal Center in Dickinson, Texas and Oblate Renewal Center in San Antonio, Texas)

• Appointed Director of the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville, Illinois and also of the Lourdes Grotto/ Tepeyac Shrine

• Served in the Provincial Administration of the OMI United States Province