Vocations 2016: Listening, loving, living God’s call
This section includes stories of the seminarians that will be ordained to the priesthood this month and what this journey to the priesthood has meant to them. They include:
Joseph Chan
Stephen Gadberry
Mario Jacobo
Norman McFall
Taryn Whittington
Ordination Mass: Saturday, May 28th at 10:00 a.m., Christ the King Church, Little Rock. A holy hour will take place Friday evening at CTK.
“God came to me,” he said. “I prayed to be enlightened by God’s will. ”
Responding to God’s call, Chan continued his seminary studies online while undergoing extensive physical and occupational therapy, returning to St. Meinrad in January 2014, 10 months after the wreck. On…
“Good times and bad. For better or for worse. Whether I am interacting with a beggar in the streets of Rome or reading a book in my room. Whether I am washing dishes in the kitchen or talking with Pope Francis.…
“One of the things that I’ve really enjoyed about St. Meinrad is it’s not a cookie-cutter seminary,” he said. “They work really hard to help form you as a human — intellectually, spiritually, pastorally. One of the key issues…