Priesthood Ordination

Deacon Oscar was born in Mazamitla, Jalisco in Mexico in 1985. He is one of five children born to Jose Anaya and Maria Cuevas. He completed his primary and secondary education in Mexico. His family eventually moved to California and settled in Farmersville. Deacon Oscar began his seminary studies in the Seminario Hispano de Santa Maria de Guadalupe in Mexico City in 2011. He completed his BA in Philosophy at Mt. Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, OR in 2016 and earned his M.Div. from St. John’s Seminary, Camarrillo, CA in 2021. Since completing his seminary formation Deacon Oscar has been serving in St. Alphonsus/Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parishes in Fresno. He will be ordained to the Priesthood on May 28, 2022.
 

With his ordination to the Priesthood on May 28, 2022, Deacon Juan Carlos will complete a long journey of formation. Juan Carlos was born in 1988 in Cuxpala, Zacatecas, Mexico. He is the third of six children born to Gloria Patricia Lozano and the late Jesus Reynoso. Coming to this country when he was 13 years old, his family settled in Orange Cove, CA. He became an active member of St. Isidore the Farmer Parish in Orange Cove and eventually discerned a call to the priesthood. In 2013 Juan Carlos began his study of philosophy in the Seminario Hispano de Santa Maria de Guadalupe in Mexico City. In 2017 he transferred to Mt. Angel Seminary in St. Benedict, OR where he completed his Theological formation and earned his M. Div this last April 2022.
 

Originally considering a career in the political arena, Deacon Dalton will be our third new priest to be ordained on May 28, 2022. Born in Visalia in 1993, Dalton is the second of three children with which the Lord chose to bless Tony and Penni Rogers. Raised in the Porterville/Terra Bella area, Dalton attended St. Anne Catholic School, where he was eventually received into the Catholic Faith. Very active in the leadership of his school, parish and community, he decided to pursue studies at U.C. Merced, where he earned his B.A. in political science. God kept tugging at his heart until he couldn’t resist the call to discern whether he might best serve the Lord as a priest. In 2015 Dalton entered seminary formation at Mt. Angel Seminary in St. Benedict, OR. There he completed his M.A. in Philosophy (2019) and his M.A.,  M. Div and S.T.B. in Theology (2022).