Ordination update: 4 new deacons for Albany

And…another combined ordination! (Is this becoming a trend?) From The Evangelist (h/t Mary DeTurris Poust):

For Al Censullo, the path to becoming a deacon started in his hometown of Boston — or, as the Red Sox fan would put it, before he entered “enemy territory.”

Throughout his life, Deacon Censullo said, he “always had a desire to learn about my faith.” He chose to act on that desire four years ago when he began studying for the diaconate.

On May 19, Deacon Censullo was ordained a permanent deacon for the Albany Diocese along with fellow permanent deacon Doug Erickson — a close friend of Deacon Censullo’s, since they studied together — and Deacons Kyle Eads and Samuel Bellafiore, who were ordained as transitional deacons as part of their path to priesthood.

Just before the ordination, Deacon Censullo told The Evangelist that he was “pretty excited.” Even though studies, work and personal life were “a lot to juggle” during the formation process, he said, now he gets to do what he was “called to do.

“I didn’t know how to do it all, [but] somehow it all got done,” he said.

Read it all and check out more pictures here. 

And the ordination Mass can be viewed in the video below.

Congratulations, brothers, and welcome! Ad multos annos!