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Fr. Ambrose has, once again, coerced a seminarian in residence for the summer into joining him on the podcast. Alex Parra joins the program to talk about his upcoming internship year, ongoing formation for priests, and lay pastoral ministry classes.

Our new Director of Administration, Brian Sticka, joins the podcast to talk about his role for the family of parishes, low-gluten hosts, and the upcoming festival at St. Brigid.

Leslie Vondrell joins Fr. Ambrose to talk about what happens in the school building during the summer, confession times in our family of parishes, and the new Ed Choice laws in Ohio, and how that affects our schools.

Our new parochial vicar Fr. Patrick Blenman joins the podcast to talk about his assignment with us, moving the tabernacle at St. Luke, and how we priests try to have good fraternity amongst ourselves.

Seminarian David Morand joins Fr. Ambrose to talk about the presence of seminarians in parishes over the summer, altar serving, and how to foster vocations within our parishes.

Michael Barclay, our Associate Director of Religious Education and other things, comes on to talk about religious ed, the difference between catechizing and evangelizing, funerals, and the massive conference our youth will be attending in November.

Spencer Hargedon, our coordinator for adult faith formation, marriage prep, and RCIA joins Fr. Ambrose to talk about how the parishes are working on new wedding preparation materials, the upcoming parish festival at Mary, Help of Christians, and bringing new Catholics into the Church!

Fr. Jedidiah Tritle joins the podcast to talk about his time in our family of parishes, the ballot issues coming up in August and November, and how Beacons of Light has been for the first year.

Our Youth and Young Adult Ministry Coordinator, Becca Elrich, joins Fr. Ambrose to talk about some of the events going on this summer for young people. You'll hear about the incredible things Our Lord is doing for our youth, and also some initiatives going on in our parishes after Mass these last few weekends in June!

For this first episode of our podcast, Fr. Ambrose is joined by the newly ordained Fr. Stephen Hughes, who grew up at Sacred Heart in New Carlisle. In the week between Corpus Christi and Sacred Heart, the two priests talk about those two feasts, celebrating Jesus in our parishes, and some vacation bible school experiences from their past.