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On Saturday, September 7th in Buffalo, New
York, 3 young men pledged their commitment to spend this year in discernment
with the Oblates of Mary Immaculate is the longing they sense a call to
religious life and to the Oblate priesthood? This year of introductory
philosophical and theological studies and the living of religious life in an
Oblate community are designed to help them answer that question.
The commitment ceremony was incorporated into a
morning Mass selected from the Marian Sacramentary a Mass in homage to
Mary, the Temple of the Lord. Fr. George Kirwin OMI, Director of
the Pre-Novitiate House, presided and witnessed the commitments of the 3 new
candidates. Matt Finn, a young man completing his second year in the
candidacy program, served as master of ceremonies and Eucharistic Minister
for the celebration. Parishioners in attendance at this daily parish Mass
affirmed these young men and welcomed them into the larger faith community
of Holy Angels Parish which hosts the Pre-Novitiate Program.
The three
new candidates are:
Jovenel Alphonse who comes to us from Dorchester, Massachusetts and is
a native of Haiti
Ben Roberts hails from the Carolinas
Didier Moīse
is also originally from Haiti and now comes to us from
Boston, Massachusetts
The
second year candidate, Matt Finn, comes to us from
Wilmington, Massachusetts.
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Pre-novices
at Fallon Residence in Buffalo, NY: l-r -
Jovenel Alphonse, Ben Roberts, Didier
Moīse, Matt Finn
