Every January, I am blessed to lead a retreat for fourth-year deacons from St. Francis de Sales Seminary in Milwaukee. As you read this column, we are on retreat at Joseph and Mary Retreat House in Mundelein, Ill., and I ask for your prayers for these men.
Tag: Transitional deacons
Two to be ordained to the transitional diaconate on May 13
Mark Foley and Simon Tipps will be ordained to the transitional diaconate on Friday, May 13.
Two from diocese ordained as transitional deacons
On October 3, 31 seminarians from the Pontifical North American College were ordained to the transitional diaconate during a celebration of the Eucharist.
Deacons to be ordained
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| Vince Brewer | Garrett Kau |
MADISON — Two new transitional deacons will be ordained for the Diocese of Madison on Friday, May 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the chapel of the Bishop O’Connor Catholic Pastoral Center in Madison.
Bishop Robert C. Morlino will ordain Vince Brewer and Garrett Kau as transitional deacons. God willing, they will be ordained to the priesthood in 2013.
Vince Brewer
Brewer is in his third year of theology studies at Blessed John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, Mass.
A native of Richland Center, Brewer served in the Navy for six years during the Iran-Iraq War. After that he attended the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, earning a bachelor’s degree in communications management.
He worked for a radio station in Dubuque, Iowa, and then worked for TDS in Madison.
The call to the priesthood came off and on during his life and emerged again after he finished a year of duty for the U.S. Central Command in Qatar.