Dynamic leader with a proven track record in founding and developing groups for young adults. Expertise in communication and evangelization, successfully guiding over 100 individuals into the Catholic faith.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Canon Regular of Premontre
Saint Michael's Abbey
Silverado
08.2012 - Current
Prior to pursuing a clerical vocation, I was attending school in order to become a lawyer. My goal was to become a crown prosecutor in a small town in rural Ontario, Canada. Upon returning to the practice of the faith, I felt called to discern a priestly vocation.
In 2009, as a seminarian of the Hamilton diocese, I entered the seminary of Saint Philip Neri in Toronto, Canada.
After three years of diocesan formation, I discerned a call to religious life, and I entered Saint Michael's Abbey in 2012.
While at Saint Michael's Abbey, I finished my theological studies and completed an apostolic year teaching in our preparatory school.
In July of 2021, I was ordained a Catholic priest in our newly constructed Abbey Church, with my close friend and brother, Fr. Frederick Schmit.
Since my ordination, I have resided at the abbey and held the positions of head infirmarian, refectorian, and brewmaster. I am the chaplain and director of the Traditional Latin Mass apostolate in North County, San Diego.
In my four years of priestly service, I have founded four young adult groups. One of which is now a diocesan-wide group with an emailing list of over a thousand young adults, and has a monthly attendance of over 100 young adults who come for adoration and confession.
I have also founded a small institute for evangelization called Talking Catholic which is designed to bring non-Catholics into the faith. To date, I have helped more than 100 individuals be received into the Catholic Church.
Currently, I am studying Spanish.
Education
Licentiate - Dogmatic Theology
Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas
Rome Lazio
10-2022
Master of Arts - Theology
Saint Philip Neri
Toronto ON
05-2019
Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy
Saint Philip Neri Serminary
Toronto, ON
05-2011
Bachelor of Arts -
University of Waterloo
Waterloo ON
05-2009
Skills
Language proficiency: Italian, Spanish, French, Greek, and Latin