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This will be hard to top for uplift and sheer wonderfulness.<\/p>\n

From the St. Louis Review:<\/a><\/p>\n

Make-A-Wish requests often involve meeting athletes, attending sporting events or traveling to amusement parks or beaches.<\/p>\n

When it came time for 11-year-old Brett Haubrich of south St. Louis County to make his wish, he not only listed none of those things but had no request at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t want anything,\u201d explained his mother, Eileen. \u201cThey had to keep asking him, \u2018What would you like to do? Do you want to meet anybody? What do you want to be when you grow up?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The answer to the last question became part of his wish \u2014 what Make-A-Wish calls \u201cwish enhancement\u201d to complement the main wish. The sixth-grader at St. Mark School wants to be a priest, a doctor or an engineer, in that order.<\/p>\n

Priest was No. 1<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018I really want to be a priest,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

So, on Holy Thursday, at the invitation of Archbishop Robert J. Carlson, Brett took his place beside the altar at Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis as \u201cPriest For a Day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brett served not one but two Masses \u2014 the Chrism Mass and the evening Mass of the Lord\u2019s Supper \u2014 and held the book for Archbishop Carlson for prayers after the homilies. At the evening Mass, he was with 11 seminarians having their feet washed by Archbishop Carlson, and his parents brought up the gifts of bread and wine.<\/p>\n

He also joined Archbishop Carlson for two meals; a luncheon with archdiocesan priests and deacons after the Chrism Mass and a dinner with seminarians at the archbishop\u2019s residence before the evening Mass.<\/p>\n

Best of all, he wore a collar provided by a seminarian from Kenrick-Glennon.<\/p>\n

As for his favorite part of the entire day, Brett was unequivocal in his answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole thing,\u201d he said as he waited for his dad, Conrad, near the Cathedral Basilica sanctuary with his mom and older sister Olivia after the Chrism Mass. \u201cIt was really neat for them to let me do this stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

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