Ordination 2023
It is not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain.
– John 15:16a
Watch the recording of the Mass at JesuitsMidwest.org/Ordination23
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Fr. Nicholas A. Albin, SJ
Born: November 4, 1989
Entered Society: August 25, 2012
As a Jesuit: Father Albin served as a deacon at St. Leonard of Port Maurice Parish, a Franciscan church in Boston’s North End neighborhood; taught theology and mathematics at Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; and led high school students in academic summer immersions to the Ignatian sites in Spain, France and Italy.
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Fr. Andrea Bianchini, SJ
Born: September 4, 1981
Entered Society: August 25, 2012
As a Jesuit: Father Bianchini worked one summer with migrants at the Kino Border Initiative at the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona; trained as a hospital chaplain for a summer at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois; volunteered as a kindergarten teacher’s aide at St. John Chrysostom School in the Bronx, New York.
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Fr. Daniel J. Dixon, SJ
Born: June 11, 1987
Entered Society: August 25, 2012
As a Jesuit: Father Dixon helped to start The Welsh Academy, a middle school for families of modest economic means in Cleveland; taught classes for English language learners to migrants and refugees at Saint Rita’s Center in the Bronx, New York, and at Oakland Catholic Worker in Oakland, California; taught RCIA classes for adults and served as a deacon at St. Elizabeth Parish in Oakland, which exposed him to the beauty and joy of sacramental ministry in the church.
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Fr. Daniel J. Kennedy, SJ
Born: February 20, 1990
Entered Society: August 25, 2012
As a Jesuit: Father Kennedy worked at Creighton Preparatory School in Omaha, Nebraska, as a theology faculty member and the director of student activities, overseeing student clubs; volunteered as a telephone crisis worker for Lifeline, the national suicide and crisis hotline; served at Eastern Point Retreat House in Gloucester, Massachusetts, as a spiritual director, accompanying individuals on eight-day Ignatian retreats.
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Fr. Aaron W. Pierre, SJ
Born: April 26, 1988
Entered Society: August 25, 2012
As a Jesuit: Father Pierre coordinated a summer program for gang-involved youth in Chicago through the Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation; taught ethics to juniors, worked on the campus ministry team and drove a school bus route at Red Cloud Indian School in Pine Ridge, South Dakota; ministered to inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, through the Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative; studied for a semester at Hekima University College in Nairobi, Kenya, and volunteered with Jesuit Refugee Service.
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Fr. Damian G. Torres-Botello, SJ
Born: July 15, 1978
Entered Society: August 25, 2012
As a Jesuit: Father Torres-Botello was a founding member, and remains a member, of the Jesuit Antiracism Sodality leadership team; worked with the Detroit Mercy Theatre Company during regency; saw God’s hand in how he was loved, cared for and accompanied by the Jesuits when his mother passed away in 2014.
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