On a recent afternoon, I visited the general store, where polite teens played bluegrass music beside rows of dried goods. Yet hints of the town’s utopian project are everywhere. Residents watch prestige television on Hulu and catch Sunday-afternoon football games moms drive to Topeka to shop at Sam’s Club. Marys isn’t nearly as cut off from modern life as, say, the Amish communities that still abjure all modern technology, be it tractor or cellphone. Throughout American history, religious groups have walled themselves off from the rhythms and mores of society. Pius X, a traditionalist Catholic religious order that broke away from the Catholic Church over Vatican II. Marys, Kansas, a Catholic village dominated by priests and lay members of the Society of St. He also has taken on the role of chaplain for the local children's Eucharistic Crusade organization.Last autumn, Emma Green of The Atlantic published a report about St.
He serves as a church assistant, teaches classes at the Academy, and assists the prior and retreat master in various duties. He is experiencing the priestly life in his first post at Our Lady of Sorrows. Louis, MO, was ordained in the summer of 2017 in only the second class of the new St. Peter Kallal Assistant - Mission: Albuquerqueįr. He will be overseeing the daily operations and growth of Our Lady of Sorrows Academy.įr. He helps in the preaching of retreats and teaches Religion to the high school students at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in 2007 and was ordained by Bishop de Galarreta in 2013. Mary’s, he earned an Associate’s degree in Liberal Arts from the College.įr. Romain Pons Pastor & Retreat Masterįather Pedersen hails from St. McFarland's assistant, hearing Confessions in Spanish for the local community. He returned to Phoenix for his second tour in the Fall of 2017, where he serves as Fr. Mary's, KS for 10 years, and then served as prior and headmaster of St. 5 years later, he moved to Phoenix, where he was integral in Our Lady of Sorrows' initial growth and development. He was ordained a priest by Archbishop Lefebvre in 1981, and was immediately stationed in El Paso, TX. Pazat is a native of Spain, and entered the seminary of Ecône in the mid 1970's. Jaime Pazat Church Assistant / Retreat Assistantįr. He is also the chaplain for the men's Holy Name Society.
Mary's Academy in Kansas, where he has spent 5 years in the Academy teaching, and assisting with parish duties. He was ordained in 2012, and was assigned to St. That started coming in September 2004 when he attended his first Latin Mass. Even at this time, he had no serious thought of a vocation. McFarland attended the University of Maryland where he got a degree in history. It was, as a matter of course, a nominally Catholic school, and nothing more. The religious atmosphere of the school was essentially non-existent.
Growing up with the Novus Ordo Mass, he attended Pope John Paul II High School in Boca Raton, Florida.Įven though the name of the school suggested Catholicism, it did very little to sow the seed of a vocation. In fact, only two years previous had he attended his first Latin Mass in September 2004. John Mark McFarland was fairly new to traditional Catholicism when he entered the seminary in the fall of 2006. We are blessed to have 7 members of the religious community present on our grounds.
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