Franciscan FR. Tod, Laverty, OFM Pastor of St Aloysius and St Patrick parishes of Detroit, MI.
The son of Francis and Doreen Laverty of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
"Welcome to Everybody's Church."
Fr. Tod Laverty OFM
Pastor Emeritus
Canadian born (Tod) Stewart Laverty was a Franciscan friar of the province of St. John the Baptist, Cincinnati, Ohio. He took his undergraduate studies in philosophy at Duns Scotus College in Southfield, Michigan and completed his M.Div. theological studies at St. Leonard College, Dayton, Ohio. Tod was ordained in his home parish on Wolfe Island Ontario, Canada on June 10, 1972.
Tod has served in parishes in Ohio, Indiana, and Louisiana, was chaplain to the newly created St. Leonard Center (a retirement community based on the model of independent living for seniors), and served as chaplain and member of the administrative team at Bishop Luers High School, Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he also served as campus minister. In addition, Tod has been a core member of two different houses of prayer, one in Indiana and the other in Rhode Island.
In 1985 Tod took a sabbatical year to study spirituality at the Gregorian and Antonianum universities in Rome, Italy, and spent considerable time on pilgrimage in Assisi. The fruit of the pilgrimage was the decision to pursue advanced studies in pastoral counseling. Accordingly, Tod earned the MS in Pastoral Counseling at Loyola, Baltimore, and a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) at the same institution. He was currently in private practice in pastoral counseling at St. Aloysius in downtown Detroit where he divided his time between counseling and spiritual direction.
For the past eighteen years Tod had been a staff member of the Franciscan Pilgrimage Program where he helped create the Franciscan Leadership Program for members of Boards of Directors, CEO's, and heads of departments in Franciscan Sponsored hospitals and universities. He was appointed to serve as a team member of the Franciscan Interprovicial Postnovitiate House of Formation in 1995 located in Chicago. He represented his Franciscan Province on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. After completing 5 years of service in formation work Tod had returned to Detroit where he divides his time as an itinerant among a variety of initiatives: spiritual assistance to Secular Franciscans, counseling, pastoral ministry, pilgrimages to Rome and Assisi, giving retreats and, when time permited, reading murder mysteries and spy novels.
Prayer of St. Francis
"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, your joy.
Master, grant that I may never seek
so much to be consoled, as to console
to be understood, as to understand
to be loved as to love with all my being.
For it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
It is in giving selflessly that we receive,
and it is in dying
that we are born to eternal life."
The son of Francis and Doreen Laverty of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
"Welcome to Everybody's Church."
Fr. Tod Laverty OFM
Pastor Emeritus
Canadian born (Tod) Stewart Laverty was a Franciscan friar of the province of St. John the Baptist, Cincinnati, Ohio. He took his undergraduate studies in philosophy at Duns Scotus College in Southfield, Michigan and completed his M.Div. theological studies at St. Leonard College, Dayton, Ohio. Tod was ordained in his home parish on Wolfe Island Ontario, Canada on June 10, 1972.
Tod has served in parishes in Ohio, Indiana, and Louisiana, was chaplain to the newly created St. Leonard Center (a retirement community based on the model of independent living for seniors), and served as chaplain and member of the administrative team at Bishop Luers High School, Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he also served as campus minister. In addition, Tod has been a core member of two different houses of prayer, one in Indiana and the other in Rhode Island.
In 1985 Tod took a sabbatical year to study spirituality at the Gregorian and Antonianum universities in Rome, Italy, and spent considerable time on pilgrimage in Assisi. The fruit of the pilgrimage was the decision to pursue advanced studies in pastoral counseling. Accordingly, Tod earned the MS in Pastoral Counseling at Loyola, Baltimore, and a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) at the same institution. He was currently in private practice in pastoral counseling at St. Aloysius in downtown Detroit where he divided his time between counseling and spiritual direction.
For the past eighteen years Tod had been a staff member of the Franciscan Pilgrimage Program where he helped create the Franciscan Leadership Program for members of Boards of Directors, CEO's, and heads of departments in Franciscan Sponsored hospitals and universities. He was appointed to serve as a team member of the Franciscan Interprovicial Postnovitiate House of Formation in 1995 located in Chicago. He represented his Franciscan Province on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. After completing 5 years of service in formation work Tod had returned to Detroit where he divides his time as an itinerant among a variety of initiatives: spiritual assistance to Secular Franciscans, counseling, pastoral ministry, pilgrimages to Rome and Assisi, giving retreats and, when time permited, reading murder mysteries and spy novels.
Prayer of St. Francis
"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, your joy.
Master, grant that I may never seek
so much to be consoled, as to console
to be understood, as to understand
to be loved as to love with all my being.
For it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
It is in giving selflessly that we receive,
and it is in dying
that we are born to eternal life."
Franciscan FR. Tod, Laverty, OFM Pastor of St Aloysius and St Patrick parishes of Detroit, MI.
The son of Francis and Doreen Laverty of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
"Welcome to Everybody's Church."
Fr. Tod Laverty OFM
Pastor Emeritus
Canadian born (Tod) Stewart Laverty was a Franciscan friar of the province of St. John the Baptist, Cincinnati, Ohio. He took his undergraduate studies in philosophy at Duns Scotus College in Southfield, Michigan and completed his M.Div. theological studies at St. Leonard College, Dayton, Ohio. Tod was ordained in his home parish on Wolfe Island Ontario, Canada on June 10, 1972.
Tod has served in parishes in Ohio, Indiana, and Louisiana, was chaplain to the newly created St. Leonard Center (a retirement community based on the model of independent living for seniors), and served as chaplain and member of the administrative team at Bishop Luers High School, Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he also served as campus minister. In addition, Tod has been a core member of two different houses of prayer, one in Indiana and the other in Rhode Island.
In 1985 Tod took a sabbatical year to study spirituality at the Gregorian and Antonianum universities in Rome, Italy, and spent considerable time on pilgrimage in Assisi. The fruit of the pilgrimage was the decision to pursue advanced studies in pastoral counseling. Accordingly, Tod earned the MS in Pastoral Counseling at Loyola, Baltimore, and a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) at the same institution. He was currently in private practice in pastoral counseling at St. Aloysius in downtown Detroit where he divided his time between counseling and spiritual direction.
For the past eighteen years Tod had been a staff member of the Franciscan Pilgrimage Program where he helped create the Franciscan Leadership Program for members of Boards of Directors, CEO's, and heads of departments in Franciscan Sponsored hospitals and universities. He was appointed to serve as a team member of the Franciscan Interprovicial Postnovitiate House of Formation in 1995 located in Chicago. He represented his Franciscan Province on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. After completing 5 years of service in formation work Tod had returned to Detroit where he divides his time as an itinerant among a variety of initiatives: spiritual assistance to Secular Franciscans, counseling, pastoral ministry, pilgrimages to Rome and Assisi, giving retreats and, when time permited, reading murder mysteries and spy novels.
Prayer of St. Francis
"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, your joy.
Master, grant that I may never seek
so much to be consoled, as to console
to be understood, as to understand
to be loved as to love with all my being.
For it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
It is in giving selflessly that we receive,
and it is in dying
that we are born to eternal life."
The son of Francis and Doreen Laverty of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
"Welcome to Everybody's Church."
Fr. Tod Laverty OFM
Pastor Emeritus
Canadian born (Tod) Stewart Laverty was a Franciscan friar of the province of St. John the Baptist, Cincinnati, Ohio. He took his undergraduate studies in philosophy at Duns Scotus College in Southfield, Michigan and completed his M.Div. theological studies at St. Leonard College, Dayton, Ohio. Tod was ordained in his home parish on Wolfe Island Ontario, Canada on June 10, 1972.
Tod has served in parishes in Ohio, Indiana, and Louisiana, was chaplain to the newly created St. Leonard Center (a retirement community based on the model of independent living for seniors), and served as chaplain and member of the administrative team at Bishop Luers High School, Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he also served as campus minister. In addition, Tod has been a core member of two different houses of prayer, one in Indiana and the other in Rhode Island.
In 1985 Tod took a sabbatical year to study spirituality at the Gregorian and Antonianum universities in Rome, Italy, and spent considerable time on pilgrimage in Assisi. The fruit of the pilgrimage was the decision to pursue advanced studies in pastoral counseling. Accordingly, Tod earned the MS in Pastoral Counseling at Loyola, Baltimore, and a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) at the same institution. He was currently in private practice in pastoral counseling at St. Aloysius in downtown Detroit where he divided his time between counseling and spiritual direction.
For the past eighteen years Tod had been a staff member of the Franciscan Pilgrimage Program where he helped create the Franciscan Leadership Program for members of Boards of Directors, CEO's, and heads of departments in Franciscan Sponsored hospitals and universities. He was appointed to serve as a team member of the Franciscan Interprovicial Postnovitiate House of Formation in 1995 located in Chicago. He represented his Franciscan Province on the Board of Trustees of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. After completing 5 years of service in formation work Tod had returned to Detroit where he divides his time as an itinerant among a variety of initiatives: spiritual assistance to Secular Franciscans, counseling, pastoral ministry, pilgrimages to Rome and Assisi, giving retreats and, when time permited, reading murder mysteries and spy novels.
Prayer of St. Francis
"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, your joy.
Master, grant that I may never seek
so much to be consoled, as to console
to be understood, as to understand
to be loved as to love with all my being.
For it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
It is in giving selflessly that we receive,
and it is in dying
that we are born to eternal life."
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