{"id":45207,"date":"2013-06-12T00:37:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T07:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=45207"},"modified":"2014-12-29T22:54:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T05:54:16","slug":"congratulations-to-newly-minted-baby-priest-fr-gaurav-shroff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/06\/congratulations-to-newly-minted-baby-priest-fr-gaurav-shroff.html","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Newly Minted Baby Priest Fr. Gaurav Shroff!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A reader writes:<\/p>\n

I remember seeing mention of a friend of mine, Gaurav Shroff, on your blog a few years back. You probably already know this, but Fr. Shroff was ordained to the Holy Priesthood in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta this past Saturday.<\/p>\n

He is tremendously faithful and inspiring person, and God will do great things through him, I\u2019m sure. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What wonderful news! I met Fr. Gaurav a few years ago when he came to Seattle. It was like Old Home Week for Indian Catholics as I wandered around over at Greenlake with him and buddy Alex (another Indian Catholic). Gaurav told me about how his studies in music, particularly Gregorian chant, had led him to Christ<\/a> and it happened that Blessed Sacrament was having a Dominican rite Mass that evening\u2013about as stratospherically high a Mass as you could ask for. Gaurav squirmed in transports of ecstasy at the thought, so we forthwith transported his ecstatic self there and, last I saw him, he was walking through the doors of the Church looking like Roy Neary boarding the Mothership at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em>. He\u2019s a terrific guy and is going to be a terrific priest. Atlanta is blessed to have him!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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