Fr Gregory had a varied career in his monastic life. He taught mathematics and philosophy at St Meinrad, was infirmarian for the minor seminary and served in three parishes staffed by St Meinrad Archabbey. In 1930 he received his Master's Degree from Notre Dame University. He was teaching at Jasper Academy in Indiana when it was transferred to Aurora, Illinois in 1933, and Fr Gregory became a founding member of what is now Marmion Abbey and Military Academy. In 1941 he was briefly assigned to St Ann's Indian Mission, Belcourt, North Dakota. From there he went to St Michael's Indian Mission, St Michael, North Dakota where he worked until 1945. He was assisting Msgr Frank Hulsman at St Augustine's Indian Mission, Winnebago, Nebraska, when Blue Cloud was founded in 1950. In 1954 he and the other St Meinrad monks, who were missionaries in the Dakotas, transferred their stability to the newly created abbey.

At Blue Cloud he taught canon law, German, and Greek. From 1961 until 1970 he was pastor of Annunciation Parish in Revillo, South Dakota. Residing at the abbey, he was also manager of our fund raising office during those years.

Fr Gregory will always be associated with the abbey garden which was his enterprise from the time he arrived here in 1954. Realizing the burden of age, he encouraged younger monks to assume part of the gardening the last two summers he lived. He continued to work there, faithfully providing vegetables for the community and selling surplus produce to housewives in a three county area.

There were two other interests he pursued with thorough dedication: card playing and fund raising. When he could not find others for a game of skat, he would content himself playing solitaire. After retiring from the mission campaign office, he was designated "Special Campaign Manager," which meant many hours of corresponding with benefactors who were personal friends. It was always his custom to make an annual autumn visit to these benefactors in six states. Fr Gregory enjoyed this earthly life, and in his declining years he sometimes indicated that he would regret leaving it. Although he was not reluctant to express disapproval of certain new practices and ideas, he genuinely loved his community and participated enthusiastically in its prayer life and other functions whether at a  community discussion or a fondue supper.