OVERLAND PARK — Seminarians of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas participated in a send-off on Aug. 7 at Church of the Ascension here as they prepared to head back to the seminary.
The evening included Mass celebrated by Archbishop Shawn McKnight, dinner and a short program introducing the new seminarians and updating attendees on the returning ones.
Unique to this year’s send-off, three of the men — Andrew Buyle, Zach McGuinness and Landry Weber — who are moving on from pre-theology to theology to begin their final four years of seminary formation at St. John Vianney Seminary in Denver — were installed by the archbishop as candidates for holy orders.
Typically, the men would be admitted into candidacy at the seminary during their first year of theology.
The archdiocese currently has 22 seminarians, and those at the send-off were joined by parents, pastors and about 60 members of the Serra Club.
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