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In the Heart of the Church- Priesthood Ordination |
PRIESTHOOD
ORDINATION
Archdiocese of Miami
Cathedral of Saint Mary
May 12, 2007
Roberto
Manuel Cid, 41 was born in Buenos
Aires, Argentina on November 14, 1965. He is the fifth child
of Oscar and Raquel Jacqueline Abadi. He received his elementary and
high school education at the Colegio de La Salle in Buenos Aires. He
has an undergraduate degree in Accounting from the Universidad de
Buenos Aires. Upon graduation he worked for Arthur Andersen and
DuPont in Argentina. In 1991 DuPont offered him a job in Coral
Gables, at the Latin American headquarters of their Agricultural
Products Business. In 1994 Roberto finished his MBA studies at the
University of Miami and in 2000 he successfully defended his
doctoral dissertation in Economics.
Roberto taught
Accounting and Finance at the University of Buenos Aires (1985-1991)
and Economics at the University of Miami (1997-2001). He entered St.
Vincent de Paul Seminary in Boynton Beach in August
2001.
His pastoral experience includes
visitation of patients at Doctor's Hospital in Coral Gables with
other volunteers from St. Augustine, his home parish, and prison
ministry both at the Federal Detention Center in Miami and Dade
Correctional Institution in Florida City. He has also done volunteer
work at Vida Humana International, the Miami-based outreach of Human
Life International.
During his seminary
formation he taught confirmation classes at St. Luke Catholic Church
in Lake Worth, he visited Alzheimer patients in Delray Beach and
hospice patients in Fort Lauderdale. He also facilitated Bible Study
groups with students from Florida Atlantic University at the Boca
Raton and Jupiter campus and other activities with Campus Ministry
in the Diocese of Palm Beach. He has taught in the lay formation
program of the Archdiocese of Miami and is currently teaching a
course on the Catechism in the Permanent Diaconate Program of the
Archdiocese. Since 2005 he is a chaplain in the Boynton Beach Police
Department. During his years of formation he has been assigned to
St. Timothy, St. Catherine of Siena and Good Shepherd Catholic
Church in Dade County. Roberto was ordained a deacon on March 25,
2006, the solemnity of the Annunciation.
Israel
Eduardo Mago, 37 was born in Caracas, Venezuela on March
25,1970 to Margarita
Gonzalez and Israel Mago. He is the
youngest of two children. His sister is two years older than him and
is an attorney. His mother is retired and his father is still
working. Israel came to United States in January of 2000. He
graduated and received a bachelor in Marketing in 1994 in Venezuela.
He had work experience in the area of Customer Service and Sales.
Before entering the seminary he worked in American Express Co. for
four years, BellSouth Co. for two years and Hilton Chain for five
years.
He was raised in Caracas
until 1994 but after that he moved to Margarita Island, part of
Venezuela, where he started to be part of a prayer group in the
Parish San Nicolas de Bari. It was there that his vocation began to
grow and finally he felt the calling to priesthood. He spent two
years as pre-theologian at Saint John Vianney College Seminary and
was a transitional deacon at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Miami.
His Pastoral Assignments
includes: San Isidro Parish, Broward County; Saint Andrews Parish,
Coral Springs; Camillus House, Miami; Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
Parish, Pompano Beach; Saint Mark Catholic School, Boynton Beach
;Corpus Christi Parish, Miami; and Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish,
Miami.
Hector
Angel Perez, 34 was born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba on July 9,
1972 to Rodolfo Perez and Dinorah Lopez. He is the second of a
family of two children. He completed in 1984 his primary education
at Jose Marti School in San Luis, Pinar del Rio. He then completed
in 1987 his secondary education in Raul Sanchez School in Pinar del
Rio. He completed his college education in 1990 at Hermanos Barcon
School and later he graduated in 1993 from Primero de Mayo Technical
Institute in Pinar del Rio. He then entered the Hector Alfredo
Pineda Saldivar University in Havana City, and in 1994 he left the
University to join the religious Congregation of the Passionist in
Havana City. After six months he was sent to Queretaro, Mexico, for
two years where he did the novitiate and professed his religious
vows in June of 1997. As a Passionist he went to Guatemala City in
Central America to study Philosophy for two years.
Moved by the guidance of
the Spirit he left the community in 1999, and in the summer of that
year he came to Florida, U.S.A. with the firm desire to become a
priest. He applied to the Archdiocese of Miami and was accepted in
2000. He entered St. John Vianney College Seminary in Miami where he
continued his philosophy studies for two years. He then attended St.
Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary.
His Pastoral Assignments
includes: Our Lady of Charity, National Sanctuary, Miami; Our Lady
of Divine Providence, Miami; Palmetto Hospital, Hialeah; Maya
Ministry, Palm Beach; The Caring Kitchen, Palm Beach; Our Lady of
Lourdes, Miami; Prison Ministry, Palm Beach; and St. Catherine of
Siena, Miami.
Lucien
Eugene Pierre, 35 was born on July 24, 1971 in Lory, Cap
Haitien, Haiti to Serge Eugene and Marie Lita Pierre.He completed
his elementary school at Fondation Vicent directed by the Salesian
of Don Bosco, Cap Haitien, Haiti. Then, he graduated from his high
school at Dominque Savio in Petion Ville also directed by the
Salesians. He joined the Salesians in the aspiranta and
pre-novitiate in Haiti. He did his novitiate in Jarabacoa, Dominican
Republic. He studied two years of Philosophy at Notre Dame Seminary
in Port-au Prince. He spent some times in Aibonito, Puerto Rico.
He left the Salesians
and moved to the United States of America in 1996. He went to Miami
Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus to study English as a second
language. He moved to Boston for a year and two months with the
Salesians and worked at the Boys and girls Club of America in East
Boston, MA.
Lucien came back to
Miami and after a studying English and working; he joined the
Archdiocese of Miami in 1999. He obtained a Bachelor of Art degree
in Philosophy from Saint John Vianney College Seminary in 2002. He
spent two summers at Barry University. His home parish is Holy
Family Catholic Church, North Miami. His Pastoral Assignments
includes: Holy Family Catholic, North Miami; Mayan Ministry in Lake
Worth; St Mark Parish in Boynton Beach; St Catherine of Sienna in
Miami; St Agatha Parish in Miami; Immaculate Conception in Hialeah;
Migrant Ministry in the Eastern Shore, Richmond Virginia; Women
Circles, Boynton Beach; St Brendan Parish in Miami; and Baptist
Hospital in Jacksonville.
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