Diocese of Shreveport Prepares for Three Ordinations in 2022 With praise and thanksgiving to almighty God, we joyfully prepare to celebrate the priesthood ordination of Rev. Mr. Nicholas Duncan and the diaconate ordinations of Gabriel Cisneros and Kelby Tingle.
Bishop Malone is pleased to invite you to the priesthood ordination of soon-to-be “Father Nicholas Duncan” on May 21, 2022, in the Cathedral of St. John Berchmans, at 10:00 am. As individuals and families, as supporters of vocations and members of youth groups, come and pray for our future priest! Father Duncan will celebrate his first Mass of Thanksgiving at 12:30 p.m. at St. Joseph, in Shreveport, on Sunday, May 22. After six years of seminary formation, he is in his final months of seminary formation at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. Deacon Duncan spent his deacon internship in the parish of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Shreveport. His seminarian summer assignments have included Christ the King (Bossier), Jesus Good Shepherd (Monroe) and St. Joseph Church (Shreveport). You can read about Deacon Duncan’s call to the priesthood in the August 2021 issue of the Catholic Connection. 6
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Two Shreveport seminarians will be ordained transitional deacons, the final step toward priestly ordination: Gabriel Cisneros (Christ the King, Bossier City) will be ordained to the Order of Deacon on Wednesday, May 25, at Christ the King Church in Bossier City, at 6:00 pm. We already look forward to his priestly ordination in May of 2023. Kelby Tingle (Cathedral Parish) will be ordained to the Order of Deacon on Thursday, September 29, in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. His priestly ordination will be in Shreveport’s Cathedral in June of 2023. Kelby was featured in the February 2022 issue of the Catholic Connection. When their time comes, each will actually lay down in prostration on the floor before the altar, their faces to the ground. If you have attended an ordination, you likely remember this moment. It is a profound gesture of self-gift to God and a symbol of the future
