During the Monday, July 22, 2019 Jubilarian Mass Celebration at our Shrine of St. Anthony (Ellicott City, MD), friar Raad Eshoo, OFM Conv., friar Joseph Krondon, OFM Conv. and friar Antonio Moualeu, OFM Conv. will Profess their Simple (First/Temporary) Vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. This week our North American Provinces celebrated the 2019 Investiture of five new Novices entering the Inter Provincial Novitiate. The event included the “Sending Forth” of our three graduating Novices of our province: friar Antonio Moualeu, OFM Conv. to further studies while living in community in the San Damiano Friary (San Antonio, TX), with friar Raad Eshoo, OFM Conv. and friar Joseph Krondon, OFM Conv. moving onto further studies while living in community in the St. Bonaventure Friar (Silver Spring, MD). For more on that celebratory day, click on Investiture Celebration.
As these three friars will not profess their vows until Monday, their habits’ cords still are not yet knotted. These friars officially entered the Novitiate and were vested in the habit of our Order, during their own Investiture in July 2018 (the photo above was taken that day). During this year’s ceremony, our Minister Provincial, the Very Reverend Fr. James McCurry, OFM Conv. presented them with new knotted cords – the three knots symbolizing the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience – as well as gifting to each of them a Blue Cross.
On Monday ~ July 22, 2019, less than a week after their Sending Forth, these three friars will don their new knotted cords and profess their Simple (Temporary) Vows, in the presence of a large gathering of their confreres, family, guests, supporters, and shrine pilgrims.
Please keep them and all of our Province 2019 Jubilarians in your prayers!
2019 Profession Jubilarians
80 Years
Friar Lucjan Krolikowski, OFM Conv.
70 Years
Friar Boniface Reinhart, OFM Conv.
65 Years
Friar Raymond Borkowski, OFM Conv.
60 Years
Friar Joseph Angelini, OFM Conv.
Friar Julian Zambanini, OFM Conv.
50 Years
Friar Mark Szanyi, OFM Conv.
Friar Ross Syracuse, OFM Conv.
Friar Dennis Mason, OFM Conv.
40 Years
Friar Joseph Benicewicz, OFM Conv.
Friar Russell Governale, OFM Conv.
25 Years
Friar Gregory Spuhler, OFM Conv.
Friar Robert Benko, OFM Conv.
Friar Michael Lasky, OFM Conv.
Friar Pedro DeOliveira, OFM Conv.
Friar Vincent Rubino, OFM Conv.
2019 Ordination Jubilarians
65 Years
Friar Boniface Reinhart, OFM Conv.
60 Years
Friar Augustine Pilatowski, OFM Conv.
50 Years
Friar Anthony Francis Spilka, OFM Conv.
Friar Martin Breski, OFM Conv.
Friar Joachim Giermek, OFM Conv.
40 Years
Friar Vincent Gluc, OFM Conv.
Friar Raphael Zwolenkiewicz, OFM Conv.
Friar Gregory Hartmayer, OFM Conv.
Friar Michael Sajda, OFM Conv.
Friar Joseph Dorniak, OFM Conv.
Friar Peter Knaapen, OFM Conv.
Friar Thomas Reist, OFM Conv.
25 Years
Friar Michael Lorentsen, OFM Conv.
Video of the Mass Photo Album
Click below to hear the Homily by the Very Reverend Fr. James McCurry, OFM Conv.
Minister Provincial of Our Lady of the Angels Province
