The Ordination to the Priesthood Worship

Ordination to the

Diocese of Orlando

Saturday, July 25, 2020 10:00 am St. James Cathedral, Orlando

CELEBRANT Most Reverend John Noonan Bishop of Orlando

CONCELEBRANTS Most Reverend Timothy P. Broglio, J.C.D. Archbishop for Military Services Priests of the Diocese and Visiting Priests

ORDINANDS Reverend Mr. Adam Marchese Reverend Mr. Thomas Pringle

VESTING PRIESTS Bishop-Elect Stephen D. Parkes, V.F. Pastor, Annunciation Catholic Church, Altamonte Springs Reverend Ralph DuWell Pastor, St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, Orlando

MASTERS OF CEREMONIES Jon Trout Manager of Bishop Matters Diocese of Orlando Masters of Ceremonies Team Ministry

LECTORS Darcy Dinh Sister Gianna Grace, SCTJM

GIFT BEARERS Colleen Marchese Valerie Pringle

MUSICIANS Adam J. Brakel, Director Director of Music Diocese of Orlando & St. James Cathedral Elizabeth Jennings, Organist Associate Director of Music Diocese of Orlando & St. James Cathedral Diocesan Schola Brass Quartet & Timpani

Prelude Prelude and Fugue in B Minor (BWV 544) Adam J. Brakel, Organist Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

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INTRODUCTORY RITES

ENTRANCE Antiphon Entrance Antiphon for Priesthood Ordination Adam J. Brakel

Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven

REVERENCE TO THE ALTAR AND GREETING OF THE ASSEMBLED PEOPLE

PENITENTIAL ACT

GLORIA IN EXCELSIS A New Mass for Congregations

COLLECT

LITURGY OF THE WORD

FIRST READING Jeremiah 1:4-9

RESPONSORIAL PSALM Psalm 116

SECOND READING 2 Corinthians 4:7-15

ALLELUIA

GOSPEL Matthew 20:20-28

RITE OF ORDINATION

ELECTION OF THE CANDIDATES

The candidates are presented to the bishop, who addresses several questions to them. The bishop then addresses the people:

Bishop: Relying on the help of the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ, we choose these, our brothers, for the Order of the Priesthood. All: Thanks be to God.

HOMILY Most Reverend John Noonan

PROMISE OF THE ELECT

LITANY OF SUPPLICATION

LAYING ON OF HANDS

ANOINTING OF HANDS AND HANDING OVER OF THE BREAD AND WINE

The vesting priests assist the newly Ordained to arrange the stole in the manner proper to priests and to put on the chasuble. The Bishop anoints the palms of the new priests with Holy Chrism.

FRATERNAL KISS OF PEACE

The Bishop gives the newly Ordained the fraternal kiss of peace.

Ubi caritas Maurice Duruflé

Where charity and love are dwelling, God is present there. By the love of Christ we have been brought together: let us find in him our gladness and our pleasure; may we love him and revere him, God the living, and in love respect each other with sincere hearts. 10

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS Offertory Song O God, You Search Me and You Know Me Bernadette Farrell

PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS

EUCHARISTIC PRAYER Eucharistic Acclamations Mass in Honor of St. James

The Communion Rite

LORD’S PRAYER

RITE OF PEACE

FRACTION OF THE BREAD Agnus Dei Missa Brevis Antonio Lotti Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; grant us peace.

Communion Songs I Receive the Living God

Totus tuus Michael John Trotta I belong to you entirely, and all that I am I give to you.. I take you as my all. Give your heart to me.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

CONCLUDING RITES

GREETING AND BLESSING

DISMISSAL

Recessional Hymn O God, Beyond All Praising

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Postlude Choral Improvisation on “Now Thank We All Our God” Adam J. Brakel, Organist Sigfried Karg-Elert

Adam Marchese

“I knew from the time I was 10 what I wanted to do,” Deacon Marchese said. “It had nothing to do with the military or becoming a priest. I always wanted to be a chef.” The Annunciation Catholic Church (Altamonte Springs) parishioner went to culinary school and worked at the Ritz Carlton in South Florida. Although he fulfilled his dream, he was still unsettled. He noted, “There was always a better job to have. There was always a better place to live, a nicer car, more money to make. And I realized that none of that was fulfilling.”

Taking it to prayer, he asked the Lord, “How can I best serve your Church?” He felt God gently ask him to consider the priesthood. His initial reaction was “absolutely not.” Taking time to ponder and examine his life, he made his decision. “Once I finally surrendered myself to the Lord and said, ‘Okay, whatever you have in store I’m just going to trust in this,’ it’s as if any barricades or blocks in my life just opened up,” he recalled.

His family was faithful, but he notes he did not attend Catholic school, was not an altar server, or part of any ministry growing up. He credits a “good community of friends” and supportive parents… and the Holy Spirit. “…nothing is going to stop the Holy Spirit from calling a man if he is called. The spirit is going to continue to strive after those whom He has called and that’s what happened for me,” said Deacon Marchese.

“There are times when you wonder if you can accept all those things that the Lord is asking you to do. And then you realize, you must surrender yourself and give it over to the Lord because it is not up to me. …He wouldn’t call me; He would not ask me to do this if it weren’t possible through me,” he added.

It was the idea of becoming a military chaplain that compelled him to embrace his priestly vocation. “That’s when I went from ‘I don’t know’ to ‘Wow, that’s what the Lord is calling me to,’” he explained. Having been part of Junior Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (JROTC) in high school and realizing that service men and women wanting to receive Sacraments often have to wait six months for a chaplain, affirmed his decision. “Who needs a pastor to guide them through these troubling times more than those who are currently serving and desiring to be fed from the Eucharist and be redeemed through Reconciliation?” Deacon Marchese said in an interview with the Florida Catholic in 2019. Convincing Bishop John Noonan took some

time, but he was eventually convinced this was the seminarian’s vocation. Military chaplains must be co-sponsored by their diocese and the branch of the military they are entering. Marchese will be an Army chaplain. Once ordained to the priesthood, he will serve in the Diocese of Orlando for three years, then the Army for five years as an active duty chaplain.

During his training, Deacon Marchese recalled, “There are days out in the field where the altar was two cases of MREs (Meals Ready To Eat) and just a cloth on top, and I threw my deacon’s stole on and the priest had a camouflage robe over himself and we celebrated Mass. We had to make sure that we brought everything with us; the host, the wine… to ensure that we would be able to celebrate the Sacraments.”

Hearing stories of soldiers breaking into tears when given the chance to receive Reconciliation or Holy Eucharist, Deacon Marchese told his mother he wanted to serve “those overseas willing to fight for our country, and those are the people I want to bring the Sacraments to, because they don’t have the option. If there is no priest, there are no Sacraments.”

As his Ordination approaches, he becomes more certain of who he is in Christ. A recent weekend assignment caused him to look back and reflect on his Ordination as transitional deacon. He said he felt the Lord “just reminding me of my identity and who I am; who the Lord is calling me to be.” He added, “I feel more Adam now that I ever have been. This is who I am. This is a part of me and I look forward to becoming more of that identity.”

Thomas Pringle

Psalm 139 reminds Deacon Thomas Pringle of his own story. Perhaps that is why the entire Psalm is his favorite Scripture passage. Yet verse 13 carries special meaning. “You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother’s womb.” When his mother was pregnant with him, there were complications. “The doctor was doing some tests and he actually came back to my mom and said, you know we think that your child is going to be born with Down Syndrome and be physically deformed,” Deacon Pringle said. The doctor told her it would be “in (her) best interest” to terminate the pregnancy. His mother was devastated. Unable to go to the doctor that day, his father returned home to find his wife on the floor, crying. After talking a while, he turned to her and said, “We are going to take whatever gift God gives us.”

“This psalm really touches the very core of who I am, and it reminds me of the faith that my parents had and the great blessing that the Lord has given me by giving me the gift of life,” Deacon Pringle said. “You know, I sometimes get very emotional talking about that story and the love that my parents have for me. I wouldn’t be here today it wasn’t for their faith.”

Born and raised in Orlando at St. Charles Borromeo Parish, his mother claims she took him there when he was three days old and he never left. He came from a strong faith background, but it was his mother who handed down his cherished beliefs and accompanied him on his faith journey. “People say that it takes a village to raise a child…,” noted Pringle. “It really did in my case; it took the community of St. Charles, the whole community to really foster the vocation to the priesthood that the Lord put on my heart.”

Deacon Pringle was an altar server in third grade when he began to pay particular attention to the priest at Mass. As Pringle stood near the altar, something began to stir within him. He remembers thinking, “I could do that.” He acknowledges, “There were days that I ran from it and didn’t want to address it and didn’t want to think about it, but the Lord kept bringing me back to that vocation.”

Years passed and his vocation only grew stronger. He decided to see the vocations director, Father Miguel González, at the time. He told no one until afterward.“When I told (mom), we kinda just cried together; we hugged each other,” he recalled. “My parents have been incredible from the very beginning.”

Moved by the birth of his nephew in 2009, he struggled with his desire to be a father. Still unsure about what exactly God was asking of him, he took some time away from the seminary. His parents respected his decision. During that time, “The Lord kept inviting me to go deeper with Him,” he recalled. In 2014, he chose to return to the seminary and give it another chance.

Reflecting on his struggles and discernment, Deacon Pringle noted, “I think for any man discerning the priesthood, having the desire to be a father is a really good thing, because as a priest we are going to be fathers. That desire is a good thing, because that is what gives us the drive to be there for our people.” It is this very desire that propels him as he anticipates his Ordination.

He prays that St. Charles give him a heart like his own. Remembering his days as an altar server, moved by the Consecration, he is grateful for the powerful impact the Eucharist has had in his life. “It is really Jesus in the Eucharist that I run to. And I think being able to bring Jesus and make Jesus present in the Eucharist, as a priest, and bringing that Eucharist to others, that’s going to be such an incredible and powerful part of my ministry.” He added, “Had it not been for the Eucharist, I am not sure that I would be here. It is really Jesus in the Eucharist that I run to.”