St. Mary's Seminary announces Diaconate Ordinations
      
In the fall issue of the "Regina Cleri" Newsletter, published by St. Mary's Theological Seminary, Houston, Texas, we read the announcement of several ordinations--many of whom were HTS Alumni.

"On November 10, we celebrated the ordinations to the diaconate of Chris Nguyen (HTS 2000), Chris Plant (HTS 2001), Tom Lam (HTS 2003), and Miguel Alvizures of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Tommy Chen (HTS 2003) of the Diocese of Victoria, and Cruz Calderon (HTS 2000) of the Diocese of Dallas."  (We have added the graduation or completion years from HTS.)

Cruz Calderon was also mentioned by Msgr. Duca at the Seminarian Welcome Dinner 2007, as the next to be ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Dallas. The ceremony will be held in June at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Dallas.

The newsletter was also quoted as saying, "this summer five seminarians of our community were ordained to the diaconate. They are Deacons Daniel Liu (HTS 2001), Nock Russell, Ramiro Tarazona, and Louis Caceres of the Diocese of Austin and Jose Luis Vidarte of the Diocese of Tyler.

St. Mary's now has 15 men serving their Pastoral Year. According to the newsletter,
"Most seminarians after they complete their second year of theology take a break from their studies to put some of the theology they have learned to practice in the field. These seminarians spend the summer working as Chaplains in hospitals throughout the area in a program known as Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). Then during the following school year, they work in parishes in their home Dioceses."

Those HTS Alumni completing their pastoral year include: Marco Rangel (HTS 2004), Cesar Garza (HTS 2005), John Kim, Victor Pacheco (HTS 2003), and John Szatkowski from Dallas (HTS 2005).   

Please continue to keep our our seminarians and HTS Alumni in your prayers--those completing their studies in Theology and those who have been ordained to the priesthood. May God reward them and bless them in their service to the Church.

Page Updated: 27 Nov 2007