Fathers Phil Cunnah, Matthew O'Gorman, and Mark Higgins were delighted give «first blessings» during the week as
newly ordained priests.
These homilies were delivered mainly to seminarians, deacons and
newly ordained priests.
This could change, of course, if large numbers of
the newly ordained insist on preaching sermons on contraception every Sunday.
Newly ordained pastor that he is, Edmund is surely using «world» in its fullest biblical sense; worldliness leads only to disaster.
At Joe's first mass, Father Stock, his old parish pastor and a money - grubber, takes advantage of having two
newly ordained celebrants in his parish to take up a special collection.
One of the more surprising discoveries for me as
a newly ordained pastor (11 years ago) occurred when I went to my first pastors conference.
A newly ordained bishop of the persecuted Church in China has chosen fidelity over personal comfort and political accommodation.