Some of you may have noticed that my countdown to diaconate ordination decreased by about 50 days since yesterday.  It is the preference of my bishop, Bishop Doran, that seminarians be ordained deacons at their seminaries, and there has been a big push the past couple of years.  Today I received word that Archbishop Carlson, the archbishop of St Louis, has no problems with my Rockford classmate and myself being ordained deacons along with the St Louis seminarians this next spring.  St Louis ordains its transitional deacons on the Saturday before Palm Sunday, so my scheduled ordination date to the diaconate is now 27 March 2010.

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