right here<\/a>. (We profiled them on “Currents” last night and I’ll post a link Monday). I’m sure I’ll end up blogging about this later in the weekend. Meantime, keep these wonderful men in your thoughts and prayers. Something great is about to begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Busy weekend here at The Bench: I’ll be attending the ordinations of three new priests for the Diocese of Brooklyn Saturday morning, then on Sunday, serving as deacon at the Mass of Thanksgiving for one of them, Fr. Alonzo Cox. You can read about our new priests right here. (We profiled them on “Currents” last…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-world","category-vocations"],"yoast_head":"\n
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