Detroit — National Vocation Awareness Week, started in 1976 by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as a week set aside for the faithful to pray for increased vocations to the priesthood, diaconate and consecrated life, has taken place in January since 1997. This year, however, the celebration has been moved to the first full week in November, and so has this special supplement to The Michigan Catholic.

As a single Catholic community in southeast Michigan, we pray especially for the 41 men in formation for the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Detroit. The Michigan Catholic invites our readers to join us Nov. 2-8 in praying for them by name, that they may effectively discern God’s will in their lives, and that if called to the holy priesthood, that they may be faithful servants of the Lord’s people.

We pray especially for the five men who will be ordained this coming year: transitional Deacons Mario Amore (Our Lady of the Woods, Woodhaven), Sean Bonner (Immaculate Conception, Lapeer), Brian Meldrum (St. Thecla, Clinton Township), Jacob VanAssche (St. Stephen, New Boston) and Radoslaw Zablocki (Our Lady of Czestochowa, Sterling Heights).

In addition to the seminarians listed below, we pray also for those discerning vocations as religious-order priests, brothers or sisters, and all other vocations. May God be with them and guide them.

• Deacon Mario Amore — Our Lady of the Woods, Woodhaven


• Richard Asher — St. Michael the Archangel, Livonia*


• John Bettin — St. Joseph the Worker, Lake Orion


• Deacon Sean Bonner — Immaculate Conception, Lapeer


• Philip Brimer — Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, Beverly Hills


• Jesse Campbell — St. Augustine & St. Monica, Detroit


• John Carlin — National Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak


• Zaid Chabaan — National Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak


• Andrew Dawson — Guardian Angels, Clawson


• Edgar De la Cruz — Our Lady of Good Counsel, Plymouth


• Timothy DuBois — St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Dearborn


• Ferenc Fehervari — St. Edward on the Lake, Lakeport


• Colin Fricke — Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Grotto), Detroit


• Alan Giroux — SS. Cyril & Methodius, Sterling Heights


• Paul Graney — St. Joseph the Worker, Lake Orion


• Grayson Heenan — St. Paul on the Lake, Grosse Pointe Farms**


• Matthew Hood — St. Joseph the Worker, Lake Orion


• James Houbeck — St. Pio of Pietrelcina, Fraser


• Joshua LaPeer — St. Frances Cabrini, Allen Park


• Mark Livingston — St. Pius X, Southgate


• Andrew Mabee — Our Lady of Good Counsel, Plymouth


• Dominic Macioce — St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Sterling Heights


• Daniel Magareno — Our Lady of Guadalupe, Detroit


• John Maksym — St. Ambrose, Grosse Pointe Park*


• Nicholas Manica — Our Lady of Victory, Northville


• Craig Marion — St. Vincent Ferrer, Madison Heights


• Deacon Brian Meldrum — St. Thecla, Clinton Township


• Thomas Merlo — St. Mary of the Hills, Rochester Hills


• Christopher Muer — St. Clare of Montefalco, Grosse Pointe Park


• Adam Nowak — St. Cyprian, Riverview


• David Pellican — Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Grotto), Detroit


• Derik Peterman — St. Theodore of Canterbury, Westland


• Evan Pham — Our Lady of Grace, Warren


• Kevin Roelant — St. Anne, Monroe


• Raynaldo Salce Jr. — St. Cyprian, Riverview


• Jacob Schultz — St. Rita, Holly


• Mark Tibai — Divine Grace, Carleton


• David Tomaszycki — Immaculate Conception, Ira Township**


• Deacon Jacob VanAssche — St. Stephen, New Boston


• Timothy Wezner — SS. Cyril & Methodius, Sterling Heights


• Deacon Radoslaw Zablocki — Our Lady of Czestochowa, Sterling Heights***

 

*Studying at St. John XXIII Seminary in Boston.

**Studying at the Pontifical North American College in Rome

***Studying at SS. Cyril & Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake

All others are studying at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit.