“We appreciate certainly the efforts of the Jesuits that came before us. Friday.“It’s mixed blessings,” said Michael Bomberger, chairman of the fundraising committee. I wouldn’t call it destruction at all.”Moats is the director of fundraising for what likely will end up as a $10 million to $12 million church rebuilding project that began with the demolition of the 100-year-old Immaculata building.On Thursday afternoon, the only part still standing was the 90-foot bell tower. Marys, Isaac Moats was feeling good.“It’s a little bit sad,” Moats said. But progress has a way disguising itself sometimes.As the stone crumbled and fell Thursday from what was left of the former Immaculata Church at St. MARYS - It looked like destruction, because it was. He also has taken on the role of chaplain for the local children's Eucharistic Crusade organization.ST.
He serves as a church assistant, teaches classes at the Academy, and assists the prior and retreat master in various duties. He is experiencing the priestly life in his first post at Our Lady of Sorrows. Louis, MO, was ordained in the summer of 2017 in only the second class of the new St. Peter Kallal Assistant - Mission: Albuquerqueįr. He will be overseeing the daily operations and growth of Our Lady of Sorrows Academy.įr. He helps in the preaching of retreats and teaches Religion to the high school students at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in 2007 and was ordained by Bishop de Galarreta in 2013. Mary’s, he earned an Associate’s degree in Liberal Arts from the College.įr. Romain Pons Pastor & Retreat Masterįather Pedersen hails from St. McFarland's assistant, hearing Confessions in Spanish for the local community. He returned to Phoenix for his second tour in the Fall of 2017, where he serves as Fr. Mary's, KS for 10 years, and then served as prior and headmaster of St. 5 years later, he moved to Phoenix, where he was integral in Our Lady of Sorrows' initial growth and development.
He was ordained a priest by Archbishop Lefebvre in 1981, and was immediately stationed in El Paso, TX. Pazat is a native of Spain, and entered the seminary of Ecône in the mid 1970's. Jaime Pazat Church Assistant / Retreat Assistantįr. He is also the chaplain for the men's Holy Name Society. Mary's Academy in Kansas, where he has spent 5 years in the Academy teaching, and assisting with parish duties.
He was ordained in 2012, and was assigned to St. That started coming in September 2004 when he attended his first Latin Mass. Even at this time, he had no serious thought of a vocation. McFarland attended the University of Maryland where he got a degree in history. It was, as a matter of course, a nominally Catholic school, and nothing more. The religious atmosphere of the school was essentially non-existent. Growing up with the Novus Ordo Mass, he attended Pope John Paul II High School in Boca Raton, Florida.Įven though the name of the school suggested Catholicism, it did very little to sow the seed of a vocation. In fact, only two years previous had he attended his first Latin Mass in September 2004. John Mark McFarland was fairly new to traditional Catholicism when he entered the seminary in the fall of 2006. We are blessed to have 7 members of the religious community present on our grounds.