Reflecting on My Ordination to the Priesthood on the Feast of Saint Melangell
An Icon of Saint Melangell created on the Island of Mull by the monks of Mull Monastery. A blessed Feast of Saint Melangell to you and yours in this year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-four! It was nineteen years ago today that I became a priest within the Free Catholic tradition. I was ordained to the Holy Priesthood by Archbishop Robert M. Bowman and Bishop Larry Cameron, of the United Catholic Church, on May 27, 2005, the Feast of Saint Melangell. The ordination took place at Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church, the church of my baptism and confirmation, surrounded by friends, family, and members of my ministry from the four corners of the country. In many ways it seems like a lifetime ago and in some ways it seems like just yesterday. The experience of the passing of time is odd, especially as one ages. The ebb and flow of time seems to move as it will, where it will; collecting in reflective pools of memories, or perhaps murky swamps of vague recollections, and sometime
