Angelus News | June 30, 2023 | Vol. 8 No 13
On the cover: Everywhere you turn, it seems as if everyone is focusing on artificial intelligence — how it can be used, how it should be used, or if it should be used at all. Starting on Page 12, Elise Italiano Ureneck speaks with two Catholics experienced in artificial intelligence on how it could impact everything from education, well-being, and human demise.
On the cover: Everywhere you turn, it seems as if everyone is focusing on artificial intelligence — how it can be used, how it should be used, or if it should be used at all. Starting on Page 12, Elise Italiano Ureneck speaks with two Catholics experienced in artificial intelligence on how it could impact everything from education, well-being, and human demise.
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Eight new ‘living<br />
instruments’<br />
For this year’s class of new LA priests, the <strong>June</strong> 3<br />
Ordination Mass marked the celebration of a lifetime.<br />
BY CHRISTA CHAVEZ<br />
The eight newly ordained priests receive applause from their fellow priests and those in attendance<br />
during the Ordination Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on <strong>June</strong> 3. | VICTOR ALEMÁN<br />
Sitting in a shady corner of the plaza of the Cathedral<br />
of Our Lady of the Angels, Luisa Galan fought back<br />
tears watching her son, Cesar, give first blessings from<br />
his wheelchair just moments after his ordination to the<br />
priesthood.<br />
“This is one of the most important days of my life,” she<br />
said in Spanish. “I’m very happy about the choices my son<br />
has made and where God has led him.”<br />
Of the eight men ordained priests the morning of Saturday,<br />
<strong>June</strong> 3, Galan’s story was perhaps the most visibly<br />
moving. Paralyzed from a shooting that took the life of his<br />
brother more than 20 years ago, Galan is now the first paraplegic<br />
priest in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. All thanks,<br />
he says, to a tragedy that ultimately brought him closer to<br />
God and led to his calling to the priesthood.<br />
The milestone moment drew more than 3,000 people to<br />
the cathedral for the joyous, two-hour ticket-only liturgy.<br />
During the Ordination Rite, the candidates prostrated<br />
themselves around the altar as the congregation chanted<br />
the Litany of the Saints. The rite also included the Laying<br />
on of Hands, the Investiture with Stole and Chasuble, and<br />
the Kiss of Peace — ancient rituals that signify their incorporation<br />
into the presbyterate.<br />
“Jesus Christ makes every priest another Christ,” said<br />
Archbishop José H. Gomez as he addressed the candidates<br />
in his homily. “You become living instruments of Christ,<br />
the Eternal Priest. … And it is a beautiful thing to be his<br />
instruments, to be his voice, his hands.”<br />
After the Mass, the newly vested priests — Fathers Michael<br />
DiPietro, Cesar Galan, fsp, Rene J-C Haarpaintner,<br />
Hieu Nguyen, Luis Gerardo Peña, Enrique Piceno Jr.,<br />
Emmanuel Sanchez, and Sergio Sandoval Martinez —<br />
16 • ANGELUS • <strong>June</strong> <strong>30</strong>, <strong>2023</strong>
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