A ‘yes’ to vocations: Keeping good on his promise, Cardinal Timothy Dolan returns home for priest's first Mass

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Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org

Cardinal Timothy Dolan addressed newly ordained Father Brian Fallon during his homily May 27 at Holy Infant Church. This is the second time in two years that Cardinal Dolan has returned to St. Louis for a first Mass of a Holy Infant parishioner. In 2010, he was the homilist at Father Anthony Yates’ first Mass.

Surrounded by family, friends and supporters, Father Brian Fallon and four other newly ordained priests celebrated their first Masses last weekend, just one day after their May 26 ordination at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. It was a culminating moment, a realization of all the hard work they had achieved through their years of formation in the seminary and a visible “yes” to God’s vocational calling.

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