Please join us on Saturday, May 18, 2019\u00a0 for the\u00a0Deacon Ordination held at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, 955 Alton\u00a0Rd., East Lansing, Michigan.<\/p>\n
The Most Reverend Bishop Earl Boyea will ordain twelve\u00a0men from the Diocese beginning at 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
Ten of the men will be from the diaconal formation class and they are;\u00a0 Sean Costello from St. Matthew in Flint,\u00a0Eric Elstro from St. Joseph in\u00a0St. John, Phil Guyeskey from St. Gerard in Lansing,\u00a0Pete Hansen from Christ the King in Ann Arbor, Robert Nieman from St. Jude in Dewitt,\u00a0Gary Perrydore from St Patrick in Ann Arbor, Gordon Prepsky from St John the Baptist in Ypsilanti,\u00a0Richard Stoolmaker from St. John the Evangelist in Fenton,\u00a0Robert Strouse from St. Jude in Dewitt,and Kevin Wiley from St. Mary in Pinckney.<\/p>\n
The remaining two men\u00a0are seminarians, who will be ordained as transitional deacons. They are
\nJohn Vinton from Holy Spirit in Brighton and Michael Cassar from St Francis in Ann Arbor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Anybody have any pictures??<\/p>\n
Congratulations, brothers, and welcome! Ad multos annos!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It happened Saturday. Two of the men will go on to be ordained priests. Details, from the announcement on the diocesan website:\u00a0 Please join us on Saturday, May 18, 2019\u00a0 for the\u00a0Deacon Ordination held at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, 955 Alton\u00a0Rd., East Lansing, Michigan. The Most Reverend Bishop Earl Boyea will ordain twelve\u00a0men from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":298502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,52],"tags":[12485],"class_list":["post-298499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deacons","category-vocations","tag-lansing"],"yoast_head":"\n
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