My Transfers and various parishes (2014 through 2022)

My transfers and various parishes (2014 through 2022):

I posted the following, and the updated comments first on August 13, 2014, and then on August 13, 2022.  Eight years passed between the two entries below . . . 

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Posted on 08/13/2014:

I'M BEING TRANSFERRED!

Greetings all:

Now that the "dust is settling" from our recent Province Chapter, I want to let you know how recent decisions of the Minister Provincial and his Definitory (i.e., his "executive council") have impacted my life; I have no doubt that these decisions will also effect the lives of quite a few people who have been very dear to me for many years.

I'm filled with emotion (and quite a bit of anxiety) as I wish to share with you that I will soon be departing Most Holy Trinity--St. Mary and Brooklyn, New York.

I'm being transferred "up north" to Syracuse, New York and to another friary and parish, at "The Franciscan Church of the Assumption" (see: http: // assumptionchurchsyracuse. org   NOW [2022]: https://assumptionsyr.org/ ).

I've been stationed at Trinity for two separate assignments during the past twenty-two years--first, for seven years during the 1990s, and then more recently, for the past ten years (since June of 2004).  I've spent seventeen years of my life at Trinity, and every one of those years were filled with both wonderful moments and many blessings! 

I love Trinity, Brooklyn and New York City.  Leaving this place again, now for the second time, will no doubt be very difficult for me.  But with that in mind, I am now grateful for the opportunity to move on to a place where I hope to respond faithfully to God's call in my life and to minister to God's people in a new and challenging ministry.  That being said, I know the transition will not be easy.

I hope to have time, before my departure from Brooklyn on September 1, 2014, to say good-bye personally to the many people who have enriched my life for so many years at Trinity.  Words cannot express how grateful and blessed I feel to have had all of you as such a wonderful part of my life and ministry.

Please pray for me!

Peace . . . and Praise God!
Timothy

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Posted on 08/13/2022:

Wow!  How time does fly!  Eight years ago I was being transferred from Most Holy Trinity-St. Mary in Brooklyn, New York to Assumption Church, Syracuse, New York. 

So many highs and lows since then . . . 

Since August of 2014, I've been blessed, and am grateful for the opportunities I’ve had, to serve as the Pastor of six parishes (most of them simultaneously): Assumption, Syracuse (‘14-‘15), St. Ann and St. Wenceslaus, Baltimore City (‘15-‘18), and St. Michael, Annunciation, and St. Clement, Baltimore County (‘18-‘22).

How blessed I’ve been to journey for a time with so many wonderful and faith-filled people in each of those parishes!

Seventeen years of my life were spent at Trinity in Brooklyn (‘92-‘99 and ‘04-‘14); MHT-STM still holds a very central place in my heart!!! ❤️

Praise God!

Timothy

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