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(ARCH)DIOCESE / RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY: Boston dA ARMED FORCES BRANCH: Navy RANK: Chaplain Candidate/LTJG COLLEGE(S) / UNIVERSITY(IES) / SEMINARY(IES) ATTENDED (DEGREES AWARDED): Boston College (BC), Chestnut Hill, MA; St. John’s Seminary, Brighton, MA HIGH SCHOOL(S) ATTENDED: Boston College High School, Boston, MA HOBBIES: Running, sports, reading, cooking, and just being outdoors with friends and solo. TEAM SPORTS: Cross Country, Track, Baseball
WHEN WAS THE FIRST TIME YOU THOUGHT YOU MIGHT HAVE A VOCATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD? Thoughts became more of a reality late into my junior year when a priest asked me. I was right out of the confessional, praying a novena to St. Jude, when I least expected it! But the peace and joy which came with that invitation remained, even after witnessing some of the challenges priests faced, then and now. God has a way of giving us a mission, a purpose to live and die for, when we least feel worthy. He also gives us the right people, in heaven and in our daily life, to make our wills joined to His. The Navy Chaplaincy did not cross my mind until exactly a year later when my youngest brother got accepted into the Naval Academy, on the feast day of the brothers Cyril and Methodius. WHO OR WHAT EVENTS INFLUENCED YOUR DISCERNMENT JOURNEY? Spiritual retreats, visiting the Naval Academy to see my hard-working brother Stephen, and without question the witness of faith-filled priests. Monsignor John McLaughlin and Father Bill Devine continue to motivate me to configure myself to Christ.
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