The Promise of Obedience

Shawn and his fellow deacons

In July 2007, Shawn spoke to the Globe about experiencing the Eucharist as a deaf person:

“The deaf, we’re very visual people,” said the 34-year-old seminarian. “We depend on [vision] for learning; we can’t hear. Whenever I see the Blessed Sacrament at adoration, the Eucharist, I see Christ there. I use visual imagination [to see] how Christ suffered and died. There’s a picture inside my brain, like a movie. That’s my spirituality. That’s how I communicate with God.”

The New Deacon

More information on Shawn’s story can be found at the links below:

• Boston Globe: Deaf seminarian has visual sense of religion
• Boston Pilot: Meet our seminarians: Shawn Carey
• YouTube interview with Shawn Carey
• Vocations Boston interview with Shawn Carey

As a sign of Serra’s commitment to affirm priestly vocations, each of the newly ordained priests for the archdiocese of Boston will receive a clerical shirt and collar from Serra Boston, along with assurance of prayer from club members.

Serra Boston is also planning to introduce an “Adopt-a-Priest” Apostolate, whereby every diocesan priest would be spiritually adopted by a layperson of the archdiocese.

Congratulations again to all our new priests!

Click here to view the ordination on Catholic TV.

You can read Cardinal Sean’s account of the ordination on Cardinal Sean’s blog.