On Saturday, we went to the ordination of Father Omar. He is a young man we met in 1999 on our first trip to Venezuela. He traveled from Maracay to Caracus to the airport with Jonathon and I. He said he needed to practice his English. I have prayed for him ever since. He had left the seminary there and eventually came to the US to study. After graduating from St Cloud State Universery he told me he would be going back to the seminary here in the US and be a St Cloud diocese priest.

I made the stole for him as an ordination gift. I got the pattern by going to our church and borrowing one and making a pattern from that. He was going to wear it on Sun for his Sunday mass. We also got to the first mass he said on Saturday evening. What a thrill this has been. In August we are going back to Venezuela again for some visiting and hopefully Fr. Omar will be able to join us and say has first Mass at San Bartholome church where we have done mission work before.