STAFF & FACULTY

Rev. Msgr. Michael F. Olson
Rector

S.T.D. (Cand.) Alfonsian Academy of the Pontifical Lateran University (Rome)
M.Div. University of St. Thomas (Houston, Texas)
M.A.T.S. University of St. Thomas (Houston, Texas)
M.A. (Philosophy) Catholic University of America
B.A. (Philosophy) Catholic University of America

Msgr. Michael Olson began his tenure as Rector of Holy Trinity Seminary on July 1, 2008. He is a native of Chicago but his family moved to North Texas in the summer of 1985. Msgr. Olson’s seminary education has included attendance and graduation from Quigley Preparatory Seminary North in Chicago, participation as a Basselin Scholar at Theological College in Washington, D.C., and theological formation at St. Mary’s Seminary in Houston, Texas.

Msgr. Olson was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Fort Worth on June 3, 1994. His priestly ministry has included service as a parochial vicar, pastor, formation adviser, hospital ethicist, and most recently as the vicar general of the Diocese of Fort Worth. He was a member of the formation faculty at Saint Mary’s Seminary in Houston, Texas and lectured at the University of Saint Thomas School of Theology between 2001 and 2006.

Msgr. Olson is dedicated to the priesthood and to developing the four pillars of priestly formation at the collegiate level. He is grateful to oversee the formation of the fine young men who attend Holy Trinity Seminary and to share the joy of his vocation with them.

Rev. James Oberle, SS
Director of Spiritual Formation & Liturgy

Ph.D. (Public Health) University of Maryland
S.T.B. University of St. Thomas (Rome)
S.T.L. Pontifical Institute of Spirituality (Rome)
B.A. St. John’s College

Rev. James P. Oberle, S.S. received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. He then served as the director of planning and research at the Maryland Office on Aging. Subsequently he served as the staff director of the Committee on Health and Long Term Care in the U.S. House of Representatives. He completed his priestly formation at the North American College in Rome and then earned an STL at the Pontifical Institute of Spirituality. He has served in leadership positions at Saint Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park, at Assumption Seminary in San Antonio and in the Archdiocese of Anchorage.

Fr. Oberle is the Chair-elect of the American Society on Aging's Forum on Religion, Spirituality and Aging. He is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Religion and Spirituality. His recent publications include: Spiritual Direction for the Elderly (Aging and Spirituality, 2009), Understanding Prayer, Worship and Religious Ritual (Generations, 2008), Christianity (Doorway thoughts, 2008), Forgiveness: Is it Possible? (Aging and Spirituality 2001), Aging and the Meaning of Time (Springer Publications, 2001), and Aging and the Meaning of Time (Aging and Spirituality, 1999).

Fr. Oberle has most recently served in the Archdiocese of Anchorage, Alaska in the areas of diaconal formation and continuing formation and priestly life. He has stated that he enjoyed very much his time in Alaska but is also very happy to return to seminary formation and spiritual direction.

Rev. Ronald Ramson, C.M.
 

M.S.T. (Jesuit) Regis College (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
M.Div. De Andreis Institute of Theology (Lemont, Illinois)
B.A. (Philosophy) St. Mary’s of the Barrens (Perryville, Missouri)

Father Ramson, a native of Chicago, Illinois, is a member of the Congregation of the Mission (the Vincentians) with over fifty years of priestly ministry including many years in the area of seminary formation.

He began his priestly ministry as an associate pastor in Pampa, Texas with subsequent assignments in Beaumont and Cotulla, Texas. Besides his work in Texas, he has 18 years of parish experience including ministry as a pastor in Chicago, Illinois and Denver, Colorado.

Father Ramson has dedicated much of his priesthood to the education and formation of diocesan priests. Father Ramson served in Denver’s seminary as a professor of spirituality and formation director. He then served for nine years as the President and Rector of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis. Most recently, Father Ramson was assigned in Kenya where he worked in the formation of Vincentian seminarians. While in Kenya, Father Ramson also was the spiritual director for students enrolled in the Institute of Spirituality and Formation, at Tangaza College. He furthermore taught spirituality to students at St. Thomas Aquinas National Seminary in Nairobi, Kenya; and he directed the Emmaus Program for the continuing education and formation for the diocesan priests of Kenya.

He is a past Director of Formation for the National Council of the Society of St. Vincent De Paul in the United States. He is noted for his expertise in Vincentian spirituality. He has written the book Praying With Frederic Ozanam along with several articles that have appeared in various periodicals including L’Osservatore Romano.