Good news!
Vocations Are Up at English-Speaking Seminaries
A number of reasons are given for the upturn, but he most significant are believed to be stronger bishops and the papal transition last year.
The
posted by Fr LWG at 12:06 PM
Sunday, December 03, 2006
About Me
- Name: Fr LWG
- Location: Peoria, Arizona, United States
Fr Loren Gonzales is a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix AZ currently shepherding a parish in Peoria. Fr Gonzales received his MDiv from the Franciscan School of Theology of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA. He was ordained to the presbyterate by the late Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, + Most Rev Carl Fisher. He is a former member of the Order of Friars Servants of Mary (Servites). He has ministered in the Archdioceses of Denver and San Francisco, and the Dioceses of Oakland, Orange, and Tucson, where he has served the people of God as a catechist, campus minister, liturgist, musician, parochial vicar and vocation director. His an advocate of the Reform of the Reform.Two years ago he received faculties from the Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, + Most Rev Thomas Olmsted, to celebrate the Classical Liturgy according to the indult Ecclesia Dei. On September 14, 2007 Fr Gonzales celebrated a Missa Cantata in honor of His Holiness’ Motu Propio Summorum Pontificum. He celebrates the usus antiquor regularly. This blog, Overheard in the Sacristy, is inspired by his smattering of memoirs, Fifty Sophomoric Summers.
Previous Wisdom (or Folly)
- My 2007 Patron Saint
- Advent First Vespers in Rome
- I feel good!
- I'm Dreaming of a Broad Indult
- Expect Benedict's Response
- USPS stamp
- CNA reports
- Overheard at the Mall
- Going wireless
- USCCB Podcasts begin Sunday
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