After nine years without ordinations, Argentine diocese has a new priest. Here's his story

Father Alexis Oser. / Credit: Press Diocese of Alto Valle de Río NegroACI Prensa Staff, May 14, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).After nine years without priestly ordinations, the Diocese of Alto Valle de Río Negro in Argentina on May 1 celebrated the ordination of Father Alexis Oser, 27.Bishop Alejandro Benna of Alto Valle presided over the ordination ceremony, which took place at the cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in General Roca, the city where the new priest will carry out his ministry.The last ordination for the diocese was that of Father Vicente Alberto Bó in 2014, who died in 2021 from COVID-19.Oser's mother works in a hospital as an orderly and his father is retired from the oil industry. He has two siblings, and although his background is Catholic, his family was not practicing the faith.Speaking with the "Rio Negro" portal, the young priest acknowledged that his vocation "was born in the missions and among the sick" and that "it's a gift, a gift from God.""One simply has ...

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