The White Earth
Reservation in Northwestern Minnesota was the scene of the September 6, 2002, diaconate ordination of
Oblate scholastics Walter Butor and Jonathan Closner. Bishop Victor Balke of the Diocese of Crookston, "with the laying on of hands and prayer,"
was the ordaining prelate.
 Deacon Butor, a native of Pittsburgh, PA, has spent the past year in a
pastoral internship with the Oblate community who minister in several
parishes on the White Earth Reservation, located in northwestern Minnesota.
Oblate Fathers Ron Meyer and Mietek Bayek, along with Brother Bill Lundberg,
make up the community. Walter has returned to Chicago where he will
complete his final year of theology at Catholic Theological Union.
Deacon Closner, who a week earlier had pronounced his final vows in his
hometown of San Antonio, also has returned to Chicago and CTU for a final
year of theological studies. His pastoral internship was with the
Oblates in the Philippines.
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