The Northern Star
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CATH NEWS REPORT: Three young men will dedicate their lives to the faith during an ordination ceremony at St Carthage's Cathedral in Lismore, borthern NSW, tomorrow night, reports the Northern Star.
Reverend Foster said he had a calling to become a priest when he was seven years old. "I said to the teacher and the students, when I grow up I want to be a priest," he said.Roland Agrisola, 27, Shelwin Fernandez, 25, and James Foster, 29, will each be ordained priests, the first time since 1967 three men have been ordained on the same day in the Lismore Diocese.
"So I don't feel nervous. I just feel a sense of deep joy and deep peace because this is the moment we have been preparing for for many years."
Foster completed his pastoral placing as a deacon in the parishes of Iluka, Yamba and Maclean, while Fernandez served in Kempsey and Agrisola was placed in Casino.
Agrisola said his deaconship gave him the opportunity to visit the sick and learn how to conduct funerals, baptisms and marriages.
The men will be expected to live simply but their personalities will not change completely.
"It's not about giving up everything ... because as spiritual leaders we have to go to where people are and lead them to God from there," he said.
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