This weekend, Deacon Nate Resila will be celebrating his final Mass with us at St. Josaphat. His seminary studies have come to an end and he will be heading back home to prepare for his Ordination to the Priesthood on June 19, at 11:00 am EST at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany, New York.
Deacon Nate has been a part of our parish community for the past four years. He has served in many different ministries during his time with us. He assisted Mary Jane Sullivan with our RCIA program; he has helped Erin Bretts with service projects for our Roots Youth Group; and this past year Nate has served the parish as a Deacon, assisting and preaching at Mass and celebrating Baptisms.
I am very grateful for Deacon Nate’s ministry here at the parish. And I know he will be an excellent priest for the Diocese of Albany, New York. Please join me in thanking Deacon Nate for his years of service to our parish and in wishing him well as he looks forward to priesthood. Cards and letters of congratulations can be mailed to him at:
Deacon Nate Resila
2064 Caldicott Road
Schenectady, NY 12303
I also want to thank all of our parishioners for walking with Deacon Nate these past four years. It is an incredible honor to be selected by Mundelein Seminary to be a Teaching Parish for the seminarians. They had hundreds of parishes to choose from. The seminary recognizes, as I do, that St. Josaphat is a special place.
We have a wonderful community! You love and support your priests, and we are growing in our ministries and outreach to the community. Our parish provides the seminarians with a wonderful community to call home during their time in the seminary and they get to experience different forms of ministries that will help them prepare for the priesthood and live it well.
Thank you again for your prayers and support of Deacon Nate these past four years. I know Nate has enjoyed our parish community as much as Fr. Arthur Bautista did while he was with us. So we should feel good about ourselves, we’re two for two with walking with seminarians all the way to ordination! And I know our current seminarian, Andres Rojas, is off to a great start with us and is looking forward to his ordination to the Diaconate next year.
Please continue to pray for all of our seminarians. And please speak to your children and encourage them to prayerfully consider a calling to the priesthood and religious life. I hope that you can tell from Fr. Grassi, Fr. Arthur, Deacon Nate and myself, that following God is a beautiful and joyful calling and one that is incredibly needed in our Church today.
God Bless,
Father Francis
