Novitiate: A Year of Prayer & Brotherhood
Our life is not about habits - the traditional garment worn by the Capuchin brotherhood. It's about the life of the person wearing it, and our Capuchin Province of St. Augustine rejoices in the four brothers who donned that habit in July.
Novices and newest "Brothers" (clockwise from upper right) Seth Dwyer, Joe Morton and Luke Kim began their novitiate year on July 22nd and join their 12 other confreres under the guidance of Novice Director Robert Stewart, OFM Cap. (Australia) and our own Phil Bernier, OFM Cap. & Bill Talentino, OFM Cap., who serve on the novitiate staff.
Continents apart: Two friars Ordained for Ministry
Our brothers Phil White, OFM Cap., and Patrick Monahan, OFM Cap., were ordained in June, and while they were ordained "worlds apart," they could not be more united in our Capuchin brotherhood.
Br. Akolla Is Ordained a Deacon
On Saturday, May 5, 2018, our brother Akolla Etuge, OFM Cap., was ordained as a deacon at the Basilica Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. He was ordained along with Carmelite friar Jorge Monterosso, O. Carm., by Washington, DC's Auxiliary Bishop Mario Eduardo Dorsonville. Bishop Dorsonville, a native of Columbia, had the opportunity to confer the sacrament with Br. Jorge, a native of Guatamala, and our own Br. Akolla, a native of Camerun, in a truly international moment for our communities in the United States.
Religious Brothers Day: Tuesday, May 1
thank you for the extraordinary life, witness, and ministry
of Religious Brothers in our Church."
Vocation Awareness at Borromeo
Our Capuchin Formation Program hosted a Capuchin Vocation Awareness Program the weekend of March 23rd. Our brother Moisés Villalata, OFM Cap., pastor of our Sacred Heart Parish in Washington, DC, brought seven young men for the weekend, and Alex Hostoffer, OFM Cap., in formation studies in DC, accompanied two other men from the area. A ninth fellow, who is serious about joining the program next year, flew in from Minneapolis, MN. Our Provincial Minister (and former Vocation Director) Tom Betz, OFM Cap., just happened to be at Borromeo that weekend for a meeting of the Board of Trustees and spent the night (which gave Br. Tom a chance to be in the group photos below). I divided the photo in two for a better view of the faces . . .
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