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Vol. 47 No. 10
May 28, 2008 |
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Ordination section
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Nine men to be ordained to diocesan priesthood June 14 |
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On June 14, Bishop William Murphy will ordain nine new priests for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, the largest group since he was named bishop in 2001. In fact, this class is tied for the largest class to be ordained for the diocese in the past 20 years. There were also nine in 1991. |
Knights of Columbus help seminarians and novices
The St. Therese the Little Flower Council 2622 Knights of Columbus of Valley Stream recently continued their tradition of supporting religious vocations by giving educational grants to two diocesan seminarians and two novices for the Little Sisters of the Poor.
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He kept running, God kept calling
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was one of three parishes formed in 1988 from St. Joseph’s, Ronkonkoma, which had approximately 16,000 families registered at the time.
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Sailor comes home to ministry
The priesthood is Deacon John McCarthy’s second vocation.
While he thought about being a priest as a boy growing up in Levittown, he felt an even greater pull toward a career in military service. “My father was a Marine in World War II, and I looked up to a cousin who served in Vietnam,” he said. “I used to go to recruiting stations and hang out.”
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First responder answers another call
Helping people has always been part of Deacon Chris Costigan’s life. He is a fourth generation member of the Oceanside Fire Department, where he has been a firefighter and an emergency medical technician.
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He knows ‘saints sitting in pews’
Deacon Robert Holz first thought about becoming a priest when he was seven years old. Now, 40 years later, he is about to be ordained.
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The Church ‘felt like home’
After graduation from SUNY Oswego with an education degree, Deacon Robert Ketcham returned to his family home in East Moriches unsure about where his life was...
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Faith is woven in fabric of his life
The Catholic faith was always part of the fabric of his life, according to Deacon Lachlan Cameron, who entered the seminary right after his graduation from St. John’s University in 2003.
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Inspired in his Guatemalan town
Deacon Gonzalo Oajaca-Lopez was born and raised in a very small town in Guatemala where the priest came to his parish just twice a month.
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It started with a dinner invitation
A former Marine with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Deacon Allan Sikorski never thought about becoming a priest when he was growing up. It was not until after he turned 30 and
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He’s drawn to beauty of liturgy
In the dark hours following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Deacon Tom Tassone realized he couldn’t wait for someone else to answer the call to bring Christ’s light to the world.
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Nationally, trend toward more foreign-born priests
The age and nationality of many of the new priests to be ordained in the United States this year continues a trend of recent years as more foreign-born men in their mid-30s are entering the priesthood.
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