Vocations 2018

“She is as Arkansan as you can get. … My dad came from Lima, Peru, in the 70s. He came here to go to school and get away from the social upheaval … He received some push-back being Hispanic ……

He reflected on John 15:16, about God choosing him to go bear fruit. “I didn’t choose him, but he chose me. Even though I was out already, he called me back. ”

Deacon Tuyen Do, pronounced “Twin Dough,” will be one…

They moved on to Catholic High School in ninth grade where they both played in the band. They were the first two students to participate in the diocese’s Seminarian Signing Day in 2009 and then went off to Holy Trinity Seminary…

I was in the mode of following my own will. I was too scared. ”

After graduating from Catholic High School in 2007, he went to Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. , and double majored in biology and English.

“I wanted to…

“In a real sense, he’s been forming me to be a priest. I keep pretty close tabs on what he says and what he does and it’s been pretty special living right next door to him. ”

Hebert is one of four…

“Weeks later she came back and thanked me and said I had really been a good ear for her and it was good for her to pray with me in that moment. ” 

It’s times like this, being Christ to others, that Higginbotham…

“You’re dying to your old self in the sense that you’re dying to who you are as an individual person, Mike Johns. When you stand up and the bishop lays his hands on you, you’re remade into another Christ, Mike Johns…

Very close families approached me and they gave me all this spiritual and moral support. ”

“And in the spiritual aspect, obviously, in the visions of Guadalupe I found my mother. ”

Ramos maintains a particularly close relationship with the Blessed Mother. The…