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Ordinations: Diaconate Dear Family and Friends, What seemed so far away finally arrived! After seven years of seminary formation, I was ordained a Deacon for God and His People on June 20th, 2006 at Christ the King Catholic Church, in Cambridge, MN, at the hands of Most Rev. John F. Kinney, Bishop of St. Cloud. Thank you to all who have been praying and helping me to prepare for this big moment of my life. I am deeply grateful for the prayers said and support given by countless people along the way. It was an evening of graces and rich celebration, and enriched by the presenece of many family, friends, priests and parishioners. Many thanks to both the Knights of Columbus and the Parish Women's Guild who helped sponsored the reception following the ordination mass. Sacred Scripture Every high priest is taken from among men and made their representative before God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He is able to deal patiently with the ignorant and erring, for he himself is beset by weakness and so, for this reason, must make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people. No one takes this honor upon himself but only when called by God, just as Aaron was. In the same way, it was not Christ who glorified himself in becoming high priest, but rather the one who said to him: "You are my son; this day I have begotten you"; just as he says in another place: "You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek." - Hebrews 5:1-6 *- Gift and Mystery* - John Paul II** The priestly vocation is a mystery. It is the mystery of a "wondrous exchange" between God and man. A man offers his humanity to Christ, so that Christ may use him as an instrument of salvation, making him as it were into another Christ. Unless we grasp the mystery of this "exchange," we will not understand how it can be that a young man, hearing the words "Follow Me!," can give up everything for Christ, in the certainty that if he follows this path he will find complete personal fulfillment.

Ordinations: Diaconate

Dear Family and Friends,

What seemed so far away finally arrived!

After seven years of seminary formation, I was ordained a Deacon for God and His People on June 20th, 2006 at Christ the King Catholic Church, in Cambridge, MN, at the hands of Most Rev. John F. Kinney, Bishop of St. Cloud.

Thank you to all who have been praying and helping me to prepare for this big moment of my life. I am deeply grateful for the prayers said and support given by countless people along the way. It was an evening of graces and rich celebration, and enriched by the presenece of many family, friends, priests and parishioners. Many thanks to both the Knights of Columbus and the Parish Women's Guild who helped sponsored the reception following the ordination mass.

Sacred Scripture

Every high priest is taken from among men and made their representative before God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He is able to deal patiently with the ignorant and erring, for he himself is beset by weakness and so, for this reason, must make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people. No one takes this honor upon himself but only when called by God, just as Aaron was. In the same way, it was not Christ who glorified himself in becoming high priest, but rather the one who said to him: "You are my son; this day I have begotten you"; just as he says in another place: "You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek." - Hebrews 5:1-6

- Gift and Mystery - John Paul II

The priestly vocation is a mystery. It is the mystery of a "wondrous exchange" between God and man. A man offers his humanity to Christ, so that Christ may use him as an instrument of salvation, making him as it were into another Christ. Unless we grasp the mystery of this "exchange," we will not understand how it can be that a young man, hearing the words "Follow Me!," can give up everything for Christ, in the certainty that if he follows this path he will find complete personal fulfillment.