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As Vocation Director, it is particularly exciting and rewarding to present the candidates to the ordaining Bishop.\u00a0 At every ordination for the past six years I have addressed Bishop Hartmayer with these words after the candidates for ordination stand, \u201cMost Reverend Father, holy mother Church asks you to ordain these, our brothers, to the responsibility of the Priesthood,\u201d to which he responds, \u201cDo you know them to be worthy?\u201d I then reply, \u201cAfter inquiry among the Christian people and upon the recommendation of those responsible, I testify that they have been found worthy.\u201d\u00a0 The Bishop then states to reaffirm the call of Christ in the lives of the candidates, \u201cRelying on the help of the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ, we choose these men, our brothers, for the Order of the Priesthood.\u201d\u00a0 The faithful gathered respond to this dialogue with a roaring applause.<\/p>\n

After years of anticipation and preparation in the seminary, the sacred rites of the Church seem to thrust suddenly the Priesthood on the new priest. As a newly ordained priest, I recall thinking how surprised I was that the priesthood arrived all of a sudden.\u00a0 I walked into the cathedral as a seminarian and two hours later walked out as a priest.\u00a0 I stated in an interview a few weeks after my ordination in 2009, \u201cIt is very awe-inspiring and humbling.\u00a0 All of the sudden you are \u2018Father,\u2019 the priest.\u00a0 You kind of have to get used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

During that same interview where I was asked about my initial experiences as a priest I recounted, \u201cone of the things that has impacted me is the great trust and respect people have for the priest \u2013 that it is a trust and respect for the priesthood itself.\u00a0 Going to the hospital, or wherever you go as the priest \u2013 people recognize and respect that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attending the ordination and reading the brief interview that evening allowed me to savor once again that significant day of my life when I made the greatest commitment I will ever make.\u00a0 I was filled with such much pride to see both Robert and Carlos finally vested in white chasubles; both of them beamed with joy.\u00a0 I remembered how the seminary prepared me with much knowledge, academics, and the development of good spiritual habits, but that very little in my seven year seminary formation truly prepared me for the challenge and privilege of being a priest.\u00a0 I remembered how the priesthood is something you are given, not something you earn.\u00a0 As a man, the priest gets inserted into the eternal Priesthood of Jesus Christ and becomes part of something much greater than he could ever be alone.<\/p>\n

Picture from The Southern Cross.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Used with permission.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"