SEMINARY DIRECTOR
AND JAMAICAN PASTOR

 

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On his desire to become a priest

My friends and I were happy to get to church on Sunday morning to hear the priest's sermons that centered largely on apocryphal stories from his own career. We were mesmerized, and I can remember quite clearly articulating a desire to follow in his footsteps, so that one day I could stand at the same altar and do what he did so well. Mom and Dad encouraged me, each in their own way. Nothing seemed impossible to me despite our economic environment.

Our students learned ecumenism

useful later in ministry

It was exciting to have in my classes, in addition to our Catholic seminarians, students from non-Catholic denominations. When these students from the affiliated colleges were ordained, they began their priestly careers with a close knowledge of one another in Jamaica that made the teaching and preaching of ecumenism at the parish level easy to implement.

On God's providence

My modest and still unfinished autobiography had a subtitle. It is, "God Writes Straight with Crooked Lines." It filled and still fills my mind, and I can still go with it today. In his own way, the Lord brings to pass what He wants of us during the span of our lives. Either you decide what the Lord wants for you or, if you don't decide what the Lord wants for you, since He is in charge, it happens. I'm grateful for this. I leave it at that!

 

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