Fr. Michael Konopik

Parochial Vicar

Born in Honolulu, Fr. Michael is the fourth child of midwestern-raised parents.  He was raised in several different cities, as his father cycled through various Navy stations.  He loved science, math, symphony, percussion, and drum corps, and was persuaded to go the tech route instead of music (mainly for the likelihood of a stable career path).  A casual cradle-Catholic, he foolishly accepted the facile lie that science refutes religion, and for 18 years wandered in the darkness of eschatological doubt.

Progressed through software jobs with MIT, IBM, SRI, a failed startup, and Oracle, coding professionally in 32 computer languages, on 19 operating systems.  (While in human languages, gaining fluency only in English, with insufficient competence in Spanish, ASL, German, and Latin.)

A futile, decade-long search for truth came around, full circle, back to the Church and a ‘quickening’ of faith, which led to seminary, where he gained an enduring love for theology and liturgy, an MDiv, an MA in theology, and an STB.  Since Ordination in 2007, he has served at St. Gabriel in the Sunset, St. Peter, St. Charles Borromeo, and St. Anthony in the Mission, St. Robert near SFO, and (since the year of Covid) Star of the Sea, where his love for reverent celebrations of the Mass, both in the traditional and post-conciliar forms, continues to deepen.