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Fr. Robert Duck was born in Tulsa in 1989 and ordained a priest on June 30, 2018. He didn’t begin to think of a vocation to the priesthood until college when he began to rediscover his faith in the Catholic Church. At a time when he was asking deeper questions regarding faith, he was invited to attend mass at the Church of St. Benedict in Broken Arrow by a coworker and began taking religious education classes. It was there that he began to understand the faith by the context of the church community, which led him into a deeper communion with God.

It was also the witness and influence of his pastor who taught Fr. Robert the meaning of the priesthood and made it attractive by his joy and deep love of God and his people. Fr. Robert began to get more involved at the parish with daily mass and adoration, and finally, began to consider going to seminary. It was then he began to meet other seminarians from the diocese and had conversations about discernment. What he discovered was that seminary wasn’t a place a man went to with already having all the answers but a place to encounter Christ with an open heart to his will. He became a seminarian for the Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma in the fall of 2010 attending Conception Seminary College in Missouri and after completing a degree in philosophy, he obtained a Bachelor of Sacred Theology (STB) and Licentiate of Sacred Theology (STL) in Rome. Fr. Robert has served as associate pastor of St. Francis Xavier in Stillwater, OK before being named pastor of St. Michael, St. Stephen, and St. Teresa.

In his spare time, Fr. Robert enjoys reading, watching movies, and visiting scenic places. His favorite saints beside the Blessed Mother are St. Joseph, St. Benedict, and Blessed Stanley Rother.