Our Team & Blog
Chaplain Arlene Metcalfe
CaminoArlene@gmail.com
Chaplain Arlene has extensive experience working in parish ministries. She is a Certified Liturgist and former head of
Worship ministries. She has served the diocesan Cathedral
as their youth minister and has extensive experience in
retreats, days of reflection and spiritual guidance. Along
with her husband, Deacon Dale, she developed a series of
"Jesus Walks". She has participated in disaster relief in
New Orleans and assisted in numerous local projects. She
enjoys travel and has visited Poland, Italy, Ireland, Mexico,
England, Spain, the Netherlands, Canada, Israel, and Denmark.
She is a retired hospital chaplain and now devotes her time promoting Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. She recently
walked 400 miles of the 500 mile (800 kilometer) El Camino de
Santiago de Compostela (The Way of St James) in Spain in
fall of 2013 and El Camino de los Santos in Illinois.
Deacon Dale Metcalfe
deacondale88@gmail.com
Visit Deacon Dale's Blog > click here
Ordained October 1988 - Deacon Dale has extensive
experience in parish ministries as well as retreats, days of
reflection, parish missions and spiritual guidance. After
ordination his focus was Worship as a Certified Liturgist,
Youth Ministry as Director of Youth, and RCIA, as co-director.
Today his focus is Spiritual guidance through evenings of
reflection and spiritual journeys. Deacon Dale loves to travel
and has visited Italy, Poland, Ireland, Denmark, Israel, England,
Spain, the Netherlands, Canada and Mexico. He has led
International and national prayer services. He is a popular
preacher and active blogger. He has participated in disaster
relief in New Orleans and local work projects with the Catholic
Corps of Engineers. He is a former member of the Joliet Diocese
Pastoral Council. He is a 4th degree Knight of Columbus and
recently walked 400 miles of the 500 mile (800 kilometer)
El Camino de Santiago de Compostela (The Way of St. James)
in Spain in the fall of 2013 and designed and walked the
Camino de los Santos (The Way of the Saints) in Illinois.
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