Fr. Tony was born in 1976 and is a native of Angelus, Kansas. He graduated from a public high school in 1995, and afterwards he attended Christendom College in Front Royal Virginia. Discerning a call to religious life and the priesthood, he joined the Fathers of Mercy in 2000. In 2001, Fr. Tony professed the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and then he studied for the priesthood at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio. While at the Josephinum, he received his Master of Divinity degree. He was ordained a priest in 2005, and he served for two years as the assistant pastor of St. Luke’s Catholic Church in Nicholasville, KY. In 2007, Fr. Tony was assigned to begin traveling and preaching parish retreats, also known as “parish missions”. His travels have taken him all over the United States, into Canada, and also to different parts of the Australian Continent. From 2009-2015, he served as the Vocations Director and Student Master for the community. During this time, he also helped out part time in the preaching apostolate of the Congregation. Beginning in August of 2015, he joined the formation faculty at the Mt. St. Mary’s of the West in Cincinnati, OH, where he workedas the Vice Rector and Director of Formation until the Spring of 2021. After completing a six year term at the seminary, he rejoined the Fathers of Mercy mission band as a traveling mission preacher in the fall of 2021.
The Congregation of the Fathers of Mercy was founded in 1808, originally under the title of “the Missionaries of France.” The community was founded for the purpose of re-evangelizing the French people after the Catholic Faith had been subjected to years of attacks and persecution during the French Revolution. It is now an exclusively American community, headquartered in South Union, Kentucky. The primary apostolate of the Fathers of Mercy is to conduct parish missions and retreats in effort to re-evangelize and revitalize the faith of those who seek God’s Truth and Mercy.
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Gratitude is the Seed of Love

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Working in the Lord’s Vineyard – Fr. Tony Stephens

What is your reason for hope? – Fr. Tony Stephens

Our Holy Mother the Church – Fr. Tony Stephens

An Inconvenient Truth – Fr. Tony Stephens

The Transfiguration, Pleasure, and Chastity – Fr. Tony Stephens

Exercising Our Faith – Fr. Tony Stephens

Easter Vigil Homily – Fr. Tony Stephens

Readings and Homily for Palm Sunday – Fr. Tony Stephens

The Pursuit of Heavenly Wisdom – Fr. Tony Stephens

The Immaculate Conception – Fr. Tony Stephens

The Blind Man’s Faith and Our Faith – Fr. Tony Stephens

Homily on the Sacraments and Sacramentals – Fr. Tony Stephens

Corpus Christi: Take and Eat, This is My Body – Fr. Tony Stephens

True Love is Sacrificial and Fruitful – Fr. Tony Stephens

Holy Thursday Homily – Fr. Tony Stephens

Meaning of the Cross – Fr. Tony Stephens

Glorify God in Your Body – Fr. Tony Stephens

Homily – Fourth Sunday of Advent

Homily – Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Tony Stephens

Homily – Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Tony Stephens

Homily – Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Fr. Tony Stephens

The Raising of Lazarus – Fr. Tony Stephens

The Holy Family – Fr. Tony Stephens

Christmas Morning Homily – Fr. Tony Stephens

Midnight Mass Homily – Fr. Tony Stephens

The Dishonest Steward & The Virtue of Prudence – Fr. Tony Stephens

Pride & Humility: Parable of the Wedding Feast – Fr. Tony Stephens

Divine Mercy Sunday Homily – Fr. Tony Stephens

Saint Faustina & Divine Mercy – Fr. Tony Stephens

Vocation Discernment: the Call to Holiness – Fr. Tony Stephens

Feast of the Epiphany – Fr. Tony Stephens

Homily – Mary, Mother of God – Fr. Tony Stephens

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