FALL RIVER \u2014 Diocesan seminarian Christopher Peschel will be ordained a transitional deacon by Bishop George W. Coleman at an 11 a.m. Mass on Saturday, January 11, in St. Mary\u2019s Cathedral, Fall River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peschel, 25, is in his final year of theological studies at St. John\u2019s Seminary in Brighton, Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once ordained a deacon, he will be able to assist the priest at Mass and be an ordinary minister of the Eucharist, proclaim the Gospel and preach, baptize, and minister at other services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is anticipated that he will be ordained a priest for the Fall River Diocese in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peschel, who is from Taunton and Annunciation of the Lord Parish in that city, is the son of Bruce Peschel and Linda Forte. He is a graduate of Taunton Catholic Middle School and Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After high school, he completed four years of study at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook in Philadelphia from which he earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in 2010. During his college years, he spent one summer studying Spanish in Mexico and another at the Institute for Priestly Formation at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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