Rev. Richard Myhalyk, S.S.E.
Ordained for over fifty years in the Society of Saint Edmund, Fr. Richard served twenty years in Vermont at St. Michael’s College in campus ministry, institutional research, finance, and Edmundite leadership as Superior General. He also labored for over twenty years in the Edmundite Southern Missions in Mobile, Montgomery, and
most recently in Selma, Orrville, and Marion, Alabama – providing pastoral care to parishioners, prisoners, and cadets. He worked earlier with the disadvantaged Black population as Programs Director and later as Missions Director. Fr. Richard is no stranger to St. Edmund’s Retreat on Enders Island in Mystic, Connecticut, where he
spent fourteen years in various roles. His initial stay at St. Edmund’s began in August 1966 when he entered the novitiate to begin his formation to be an Edmundite priest. He returned in the 1970s as Director of Vocations and again in the 1990s as Director of Novices. In the 1990s, he helped expand the island’s retreat programs and began leading guided retreats and days of recollection. Fr. Richard recently provided spiritual direction to those in the island’s residential addiction recovery program. He is currently associated with the Tolton Institute at Selma, which is designed to help those preparing for Church ministry that serve the marginalized and the poor
Ordained for over fifty years in the Society of Saint Edmund, Fr. Richard served twenty years in Vermont at St. Michael’s College in campus ministry, institutional research, finance, and Edmundite leadership as Superior General. He also labored for over twenty years in the Edmundite Southern Missions in Mobile, Montgomery, and
most recently in Selma, Orrville, and Marion, Alabama – providing pastoral care to parishioners, prisoners, and cadets. He worked earlier with the disadvantaged Black population as Programs Director and later as Missions Director. Fr. Richard is no stranger to St. Edmund’s Retreat on Enders Island in Mystic, Connecticut, where he
spent fourteen years in various roles. His initial stay at St. Edmund’s began in August 1966 when he entered the novitiate to begin his formation to be an Edmundite priest. He returned in the 1970s as Director of Vocations and again in the 1990s as Director of Novices. In the 1990s, he helped expand the island’s retreat programs and began leading guided retreats and days of recollection. Fr. Richard recently provided spiritual direction to those in the island’s residential addiction recovery program. He is currently associated with the Tolton Institute at Selma, which is designed to help those preparing for Church ministry that serve the marginalized and the poor