Congratulations to Victor Vitug. He is in the news! Victor was from Guam. He would have been a priest by now if it wasn't for Archbishop Hon and Archbishop Byrnes. Nevertheless, Victor has been ordained a deacon and is on the road to priesthood.
Victor was not the only one who was ordained a deacon. According to an anonymous poster, Martin Munoz, who was also from Guam, was ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Miami. Congratulations to Victor and Martin. If anyone can find a news report on Martin, please give us the weblink, so I can publish it. Congratulations to these two men. Guam has lost, but these men have won. They have proven themselves when they were ordained in the great United States of America.
You can find the following story here.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LOWELL -- Taking the last major step in a long journey towards priesthood, 14 men were ordained transitional deacons in the presence of family, friends, fellow seminarians, clergy, and religious during a standing-room-only Mass April 14 in Immaculate Conception Church in Lowell.
"Today, we're celebrating not just the quantity of this class -- this is the largest class we've had in a long time -- but the quality of these wonderful men, who are giving their lives to the service of God," said Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley in his homily.
Ordained during the Mass were Deacons Joseph Almeida, Maciej Kazimierz Araszkiewicz, Corey Bassett-Tirrell, Marcos Enrique, Timothy Paul Hynes, Przemyslaw Kasprzak, Brother John Edward Koelle OFM Cap., Brian Peter O'Hanlon, Mark Teodor Olejnik, Francis Huy Duc Pham, William Henry Robinson, Carignan Langlois Rouse, Victor Luna Vitug II, and James Paul Wargovich.
The deacon, from the Greek word "diakonos" meaning servant or minister, is the first of three ranks of ordained ministry in the Church. Among the many functions they perform in parishes, deacons may preside at baptisms, weddings, and rites of Christian burial, as well as aid the priest at Mass, proclaim the Gospel, and deliver homilies.
The 14 men will serve for one full year as transitional deacons before being ordained priests.
Such a wonderful man! I am so happy for Victor, He will be a good priest. It is such a pity that Guam closed the doors for him...
ReplyDeleteAnother major loss for Guam because Deacon Victor Vitug really wanted to serve the Catholic Church on Guam until AB Byrnes closed the RMS Seminary in Yona. Byrnes said it wasn't sustainable for Guam. As a result of his decision,many other states are benefiting from these new deacons and future Priests which will soon include the four Chamorro Seminarians who were rejected by AB Byrnes in 2017. All the hype about the RMS being a fake Seminary is proven totally false by Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, Massachusetts and the Archbishops who have accepted the Guam Seminarians rejected by AB Nyrnes. LASTIMA!
ReplyDelete