From All Souls Day: Candle for Fr. Cyprian Davis, OSB
I’ve been in seminary for 6.5 years, and each of those years (besides last year when I was doing my pastoral year of service in my diocese) I have laid a candle on this grave during our All Souls candlelight procession to the monks’ cemetery here at Saint Meinrad. This is the grave of Fr.…
New Update On Seminary Journey: Deacon Promises
Not too long ago last month I took the next major step towards ordination! A group other men and I at Saint Meinrad made our public promises to be ordained deacons and committing to the obligations of clerical life in a ceremony swearing on a book of the Gospels and on the altar. What was…
Big Personal Update On My Seminary Journey: Last Semester!
A lot of yall have been following my journey in the seminary since I entered back in 2018 whenever I would share brief updates here and there. Now, I would like for you to know that the seminary-side of my formation to the priesthood is in its last stage. There is still one more stage…
You Can Take That to the Bank: Reflection for Communion Service (Friday, 11th Week Ordinary Time, 6-21-24)[Gospel: Mt. 6:19-23]
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Last month on June 21 I had the privilege of utilizing my full instituted acolyte duties to lead a communion service for the people at my seminarian summer assignment parish of St. Edward Catholic Church here in Nashville in the absence of a priest or deacon for Friday in the 11th Week of Ordinary Time…
St. Blaise Blessings For The First Time
Praise God for the chance to help Father and the Deacons give out St. Blaise throat blessings to His people. The was my first time doing this! Be sure to get yours this weekend if your parish is offering them. St. Blaise, bishop and martyr of Christ Jesus, pray for us!
A Mother For These Times: My Assumption Novena Sermon
I posted last week about my receiving from my bishop to publicly preach outside of Mass once again for one of the days of a parish novena for the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary being held at one of the local churches, the Church of the Assumption, in my diocese here in Nashville. This…
Preaching (Officially) For The 2nd Time Tonight!
Good news to share! I have received permission from my bishop once again for this year to publicly preach for the faithful in the context of a non-Mass liturgy for the Novena for the Assumption at a local parish in my diocese! I will be preaching later this evening. By the grace of God last…
My First Act of Public Preaching!
This past Saturday evening I performed my official first act of public preaching! I was invited to the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in my diocese this weekend for their parish novena leading up to the Solemnity of the Assumption. Their novena ended yesterday and it involved a sermon on a…
Same church. Same cassock. Same beard. Different summer.
Been 3 years and now back at the same parish where I spent my first ever seminarian summer assignment, Our Lady of the Lake in Hendersonville, TN in my diocese. This time 3 weeks instead of 2 months but I will be back for Christmas and Holy Week next year. (Left: 2019/Right: Now) And way…
A Summer in Italy! – Rome Experience: Florence
Last week I began part 1 of my summer assignment on a program called the Rome Experience. This program involves traveling to Florence, Bracciano, and Rome, Italy/Vatican to see the beauty, history, and inner life and workings of the heart of the Church. The past week we were in Florence and saw many of the…