HOUSTON - Auxiliary Bishop Italo Dell’Oro, CRS, set four men onto their next step toward the priesthood when he ordained seminarians James Schnitzler, David Basil, CSB, Joshua Svajda and Thomas Vũ as transitional deacons on May 10 at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.
Deacons Schnitzler, Svajda and Vũ were ordained as transitional deacons for the Archdiocese, while Deacon Basil was ordained for the Congregation of St. Basil, a religious community that serves in several Catholic institutions in the Archdiocese.
In his homily, Bishop Dell’Oro called the transitional deacons to remain faithful to the call of Christ and be the “faces of charity” of the diaconate to the Church and to the world.
