Kevin Gregus
| Birthday | April 2 |
| Ordination Year | 2023 |
| Home Town | Crystal Lake, IL |
| Home Parish | St. Alphonsus, Lakeview |
| Undergraduate | University of Michigan (Aerospace Engineering) |
| Graduate Degree | MA in Philosophy and Religion |
| Previous Career | Fuel Systems Engineer for the Department of the Navy and FAA Certification Engineer at Astronics Armstrong Aerospace |
| Languages | English, Spanish, Latin, Koine Greek |
| Hobbies | Sports (watching and playing), reading, listening to podcasts, playing trumpet, eating sushi, hangin' with the boys |
| Tidbit | I have a metal plate in my left ankle due to a break playing hockey |
| Favorite Saint | St. Peter, St. John Paul II, Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St. Benedict |
| Favorite Devotion | Litany of Humility |
| Vocation Story | After attending a Catholic grade school, I got involved with the youth ministry program at my parish in high school. After attending a youth retreat, I took the Catholic faith on as my own and helped to build up the ministry program. In college, I spent a summer as a Totus Tuus teacher for the Diocese of Rockford, where I fell deep in love with the Church, her liturgy, and her people. During that summer, I felt the first call from God to priesthood placed on my heart. However, due to a number of circumstances, I let that call fade away and focused on my career and potential marriage after graduation. I moved to Southern Maryland to work on US Naval aircraft, where I was professionally happy, but not living a faith life outside of going to Mass and teaching CCD. After about 4 years, I moved to Chicago with a small aerospace company. In desperate search for Catholic community, I joined the Young Adult Ministry at St. Alphonsus in the Lakeview neighborhood. From there, I fell in with a dynamic men’s group (which is still there now). Those men helped to reignite my faith life. At a silent retreat with the group, I sat in Adoration just focusing on being with the Lord. It was at this time that God busted down every wall and showed me how happy I would be as a priest and how my life already fit into the priesthood-my love of liturgy, of brotherhood, of teaching, and of the people. From there, I joined the InSearch discernment group in Chicago and was reaffirmed of the call from God to enter seminary. |
| Priest Aspirations | Helping to build true and intentional Catholic communities centered on Jesus Christ and the sacraments |
| What has been your favorite/most memorable story of your time at Mundelein thus far? | Playing in the Pep Band for the Mundelein Basketball Invitational |
| Anything Else | Stay salty, my friends — Matt 5:13 |
| How can Mundelein's donors and community pray for you? | Please pray that I may humbly trust in God’s will |
