Deacon Ordained in SUE

At the Marian Shrine in Haverstraw-Stony Point, N.Y., Brother Michael Leschinsky was ordained deacon on Saturday, May 22. The ordination Mass was part of the New Rochelle Province’s annual Marian Day celebration–the external feast of Mary Help of Christians for the Salesian Family and the friends of the Marian Shrine. Bishop Dominic Marconi, a retired auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Newark, N.J., presided. Bro. Leschinsky, a member of the community of Orange, N.J., is studying theology at Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University.

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Photos show the bishop imposing hands; the new deacon assisting at the altar (the other deacon is Joseph Caporaso, a Cooperator from the Salesian parish in Elizabeth, N.J.); Bro. Leschinsky speaking at the end of Mass, with the provincial, Fr. Thomas Dunne, listening behind him; and Bro. Leschinsky’s parents, Anne and Thomas, posing with Bishop Marconi and Fr. Dunne.