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Capuchin
Vocation Update
July 2010
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Four Candidates Accepted as Capuchin
Postulants
 Nemesio
Santana
was born
in Guerro, Mexico and came to the U.S. in 1990. At age 14, he was invited to
attend a Spanish youth group. It was his involvement with this group where he
found his calling for Religious life. In 1998, Nemesio and his father founded a
group called "Adoracion Nocturna" (the Nocturnal Adoration) at St.
Helen Parrish. He also was instrumental in launching a new radio program with
his Youth Ministry called "Por Siempre Adonai" (Forever Adonai). The
program airs every Saturday at 9:30 a.m. To keep the program going, he has
planned and organized many fund raising events. He has also been involved in the
Annual Fiesta for St. Helen parish, scheduling and hiring the different
performers. He has been an active member of his parish and gives his volunteer
time to parish needs and activities.
 Thomas
Park was born in Seoul, Korea. He is the oldest of
three children. He immigrated to the United States in 1971, where they lived in
San Francisco for a brief time until making the move to Los Angeles. He served
as an altar boy at St. Agnes Church. He also volunteered at a convalescent home
every week through his church. He attended USLA as pre-biology major, but later
transferred to UC San Diego with a Electrical Engineering major. He worked for a
engineering company called Burroughs Corp. and then later was employed by
General Dynamics Electronics Division in San Diego. He later moved back to Los
Angeles when he was offered a position with Rockwell International. After many
years away from the church, he started reading his bible again and praying the
rosary. While on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje in 2009, he met a priest who was
ordained at the age of 52. It was this pilgrimage that further encouraged his
desire to serve God as a priest for the poor. His sister, who is a third order
Carmelite, had given him information on St. Padre Pio and Br. Casey Solanus. It
was this that attracted him to the Capuchins.
 Ernesto
Sanchez
spent most of his young life in Mexico before
coming to the United States at the age of 25. He is the fifth of twelve
children. His father was involved in a serious car accident when he was nine
years old and was not able to work for many years.
He worked part time and went
to school full time until he finished elementary school, and at this time it
became necessary for him to work full time. He met an elderly lady who took him
to mass and sent him to many retreats. He prayed the rosary regularly with his
mother. He has been interested in religious life since he was a young child. He
spent a year and half at a diocesan formation house for candidates for the
seminary in Gardena, CA. He participated in prayer groups and attended mass
daily at La Purisima, in Lompoc, CA. Here he met Fr. Richard Vega who has been
helping him with his discernment.
 Christopher
Silva
was
directed to the Capuchins by two Sacred Heart Sisters, while working at a Sacred
Heart Retreat Camp at Big Bear, CA. He was born to a military family in Loma
Linda, California and moved to Edwards Air Force Base when he was one year old.
Both his parents taught CCD and volunteered at St. Edwards Church. He spent many
summers as a child involved in a day camp, where he met the Sacred Heart
Sisters. He attended Paraclete High school and then went on to major in Graphic
Design in college. It is his long term relationship with the Sacred Heart
Sisters that brought him to visit with the Capuchin Franciscans. He has thought
of religious life for quite some time.
Last updated October 5, 2010
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