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NAME: The Reverend Mr. Edward Hoffmann (ARCH)DIOCESE / RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY: Archdiocese of Cincinnati ARMED FORCES BRANCH: Army RANK: 1LT COLLEGE(S) / UNIVERSITY(IES) / SEMINARY(IES) ATTENDED (DEGREES AWARDED): Xavier University, BA (Classics), Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary of the West, MA (Theology) in progress. HIGH SCHOOL(S) ATTENDED: Homeschooled HOBBIES: Hunting, fishing, and reading
WHEN WAS THE FIRST TIME YOU THOUGHT YOU MIGHT HAVE A VOCATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD? A few weeks after my conversion, at Mass on Good Shepherd Sunday. WHO OR WHAT EVENTS INFLUENCED YOUR DISCERNMENT JOURNEY? My older brother, Brother Henry Hoffmann, CO (Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri), was a source of inspiration to be open to God’s calling. WHAT WOULD PEOPLE BE SURPRISED TO KNOW ABOUT YOU? I am a relatively recent convert to the Catholic Faith; I grew up a Protestant, and converted a few years after my older brother. After God’s grace, the second cause for my conversion was reading the Church Fathers. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SCRIPTURE PASSAGE, WHY? 1 John 1:1 and following: “We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and
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