Msgr. Daniel Hermes

 

Msgr. Daniel Hermes will retire on June 18.

 

Born in Dixon, he attended Newman Central Catholic High School, St. Meinrad College and Seminary, and later earned a master’s degree in Community Mental Health from Northern Illinois University. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Arthur J. O’Neill on May 17, 1969, at St. Patrick Church in Dixon. He was given the Papal Honor, Prelate of Honor with the title of “monsignor” on Jan. 3, 1996.

 

He served as parochial vicar at Holy Family Parish in Rockford, June 1969 to June 1971 and at Christ the Teacher Parish/Campus Ministry at the Newman Center in DeKalb June 1971 to July 1977.

 

He was pastor at St. John Neumann Parish in St. Charles from July 1977 to July 1989, and at Holy Family Parish in Rockford from July 1989 to July 2001. He became pastor at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Crystal Lake in July 2001, serving there to the present.

 

Additionally, Msgr. Hermes has served on the Diocesan Board of Consultors, 1988-2015; the board of St. Anne Center, Rockford; the Priest Incardination Committee; and the McHenry County Catholic Prayer board and as its chaplain. He has been the Dean of the McHenry Deanery since July 2014.

 

Msgr. Hermes will be honored at receptions after all Masses on June 16 and 17 (4:30 p.m. Saturday; on Sunday: 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12 noon, 5:30 p.m.) at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish’s 451 W. Terra Cotta Ave. (Illinois Rt. 176 and Oak Street) location.

 

Father Paul Lipinski

 

Father Paul Lipinski will retire on June 18.

 

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, he attended St. Laurence High School in Chicago, Lewis University, University of St. Mary of the Lake campus in Niles, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Joliet, and St. Mary Seminary in Baltimore. He was ordained a priest by Bishop Arthur J. O’Neill on June 9, 1973, at the Cathedral of St. Peter in Rockford.

 

Father Lipinski began service as parochial vicar at St. Rita of Cascia Parish in Aurora, June 1973 to June 1975, and also in campus ministry at Waubonsee Community College there from August 1974 to June 1975. After about three months of graduate study at Loyola University in Chicago, he became parochial vicar at St. Patrick Parish in Rockford until September 1979.

 

He then served on the faculty and as spiritual director at Boylan Central Catholic High School in Rockford, September 1979 to July 1990, and was sacramental minister at Rockford College from July 1986 to July 1990. He became assistant principal of Newman Central Catholic High School in Sterling and administrator at St. Mary Parish in Tampico from July 1990 to July 1991.

 

From July 1991 to July 2001, Father Lipinski was assistant principal and spiritual director at Marian Central Catholic High School in Woodstock, also serving as administrator of St. Patrick Parish in Hartland from July 1999 to July 2001. He was superintendent and principal at Newman Central Catholic High School in Sterling from July 2001 to July 2008, and also administrator of Sacred Heart Parish there from June 2007 to July 2008.

 

He then went to Boylan Central Catholic High School in Rockford, serving first as acting principal, July 2008 to November 2010, then as superintendent/principal until January 2013. He has served as pastor of St. Mary Parish in Sycamore since then.

 

Father Lipinski will be honored on June 17, after 11 a.m. Mass with a reception and open house from noon until 2 p.m. at St. Mary Parish in Sycamore.

 

Father Perfecto Vasquez

 

Father Perfecto Vasquez will retire on June 18.

 

Born in Binan, Laguna, Philippines, he attended Colegio de Sta in Laguna, Ateneo De Manila University in Quezon City, and Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Thomas G. Doran on May 16, 1998, at the Cathedral of St. Peter.

 

His first assignment was as parochial vicar at St. Thomas More Parish in Elgin and as spiritual advisor at St. Edward Central Catholic High School, June 1998 to April 2000. He served as administrator of St. Joseph Parish in Elgin from April to November, 2000, then began as parochial vicar at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Crystal Lake, serving there until July 2004. At that time he became parochial vicar at St. Margaret Mary Parish in Algonquin, serving until March 2006 when he became the administrator of St. James Parish in Lee until July 2008.

 

He became pastor of SS. Peter & Paul Parish in Virgil in July 2008. He also became administrator at St. Mary Parish in Maple Park in April 2014 and then its pastor to the present. 

 

Father Vasquez was the diocesan director of Filipino Catholic Ministry from July 2001 to the present, and has been a parish priest consultor since March 2015.

 

Father Vasquez will be honored June 3 after an outdoor Mass at 9:30 a.m., followed by a celebration with food and music at SS. Peter and Paul Parish in Virgil.