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I was blessed today as I celebrated four sacraments: Baptisms at 9:30 a.m., Matrimony (Nuptial Mass) at 1:30 p.m., Penance at 3:30 p.m., and Communion (6th Sunday of Easter Mass) at 5:00 p.m. Deo gratias!Labels: Sacraments
posted by Fr LWG at 8:19 PM
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.
3 Comments:
Our parish priest was right up there with. . .
A funeral and a baptism on Thursday, a confirmation on Friday, a wedding on Saturday, plus daily Mass and confessions, and an anointing of the sick thrown in the mix. Considering he can't ordain anyone. . . that's about all he could fit into his schedule this weekend.
God bless you priests! It's really only by the grace of God that you can carry out the priestly ministry. Without grace it would be impossible, in more ways than one.
Our parish priest was right up there with. . .
A funeral and a baptism on Thursday, a confirmation on Friday, a wedding on Saturday, plus daily Mass and confessions, and an anointing of the sick thrown in the mix. Considering he can't ordain anyone. . . that's about all he could fit into his schedule this weekend.
God bless you priests! It's really only by the grace of God that you can carry out the priestly ministry. Without grace it would be impossible, in more ways than one.
May God continue to bless my brother priests, and save us from the snares of the wicked.
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