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Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity

03.14.18

Fifteen seminarians declared both the Creed and the Oath in the preparation for reception of the Order of Deacon before the gathered community on March 13 in the Chapel of St. Gregory the Great. 

The path to ordination to the priesthood is marked by different stages each with their own particular ceremony and rites.

Seminarians in first theology receive candidacy and the ministry of lector, in their second year they receive the ministry of acolyte and at the end of their third year, a few weeks before ordination to the diaconate, they make a public Profession of Faith and take the Oath of Fidelity to the Holy See and the Catholic Church.

At Mount St. Mary’s Seminary/The Athenaeum of Ohio this public declaration of faith takes place during Vespers when our seminarians declare both the Creed and the Oath before the gathered community, in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, and sign the oath and profession on the Altar. On March 13, 2018 fifteen men took this final public step in the preparation for reception of the Order of Deacon.

Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West III Theology seminarians preparing for reception of the Order of Deacon:

Alex Biryomumeisho – Cincinnati                                 
Mark Bredestege
 – Cincinnati                                 
David Carvajal Casal
 – Tulsa                                          
Zachary Cecil
 – Cincinnati                                 
Christian Cone-Lombarte
 – Cincinnati                                 
Ambrose Dobrozsi
 – Cincinnati                                 
Robert Healey
 – Tulsa                                          
Andrew Hess
 – Cincinnati                                 
Kendall Ketterlin
 – Kansas City-St. Joseph            
Simon Mino
 – Youngstown                             
Elias Mwesigye
 – Cincinnati                                 
James Porter III
 – Tulsa                                          
Kirby Rust
 – Louisville                                  
Jeffrey Stegbauer
 – Cincinnati                                 
Jedidiah Tritle
 – Cincinnati

Photo Credit: E.L. Hubbard Photography.

 

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