Rev Mr Scott DuVall
Birth Date: 2/26/67
Home Parish: St. Peter, Spring Grove, IL	St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO. South Eastern Illinois College, Harrisburg, IL. Holy Apostles College Seminary, Cromwell, CT - 3rd Theology
Master of Ceremony, CCD Instructor,Intensive Care Foster parent, Certified Domestic Violence Counselor	Arborist, Mechanical Clocks, Skeet/trap shooting, fishing, Gregorian Chant, Liturgical Vestments, restoring sacred liturgical items.
Other Interests:	Farmer, Banker, Social Worker, former Religious Brother, trained to celebrate the Missa Normativa in Latin and English and the Tridentine Mass. Trained in Gregorian Chant and Orchestral Masses, trained in Sacred Architecture and Art and restoration.

I was born a pagan baby! Well at least originally the word pagan means "from the field." I come from a farm family in Southeastern Illinois near Carbondale and for the first 30 years of my life I was Missionary Southern Baptist. Through a great movement by the Holy Spirit I began to see that what I thought was Church was only church based on a desire for personal power.

My best friend at the time (his family and my family were founding members of the Baptist church we attended, founded 150 years ago) was dating a Catholic girl (now his wife with three children baptized Catholic).  She invited us to attend a Saturday night Mass at her church, as we were taking a trip starting Sunday morning. At my first Catholic Mass, I refused to kneel but would stand and sit, but did give a handshake at the sign of peace. Leaving the Mass, I had the incredible awareness that I was feeling a sense of peace that I had never felt before in my life. I also knew, that something special had occurred because the priest had been very measured in his words and actions during the church service.

 Peace is a hard thing to find in this world and I wanted more of it. Eventually, God called me away from everything that I had known in the Protestant culture. That Priest eventually taught me and accepted me into the Church and as I learned later, had prayed for me to discover my vocation from the first day we had met privately. I became his first spiritual son in vocations and he continues today to be my mentor in the priesthood.

He has just recently been diagnosed with Acute Alzheimer's and is retiring from active ministry; I was given the great privilege of being Master of Ceremony for his last Masses in our parish during the Christmas season. I cannot thank him enough; also I cannot thank the Diocese of Rockford and Fr. Brodeski for allowing me to be a seminarian for Rockford. How great it feels to be doing what I know to be God's will in my life at this moment. My family gives my 150% support in my call from God, as I am the only Catholic in my family. I love to teach CCD classes, to give speeches, and work to further vocations. God has given me much and I intend to give all.