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By Dc. Tom Cuskey Editor

There is a song that says you “don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone.” Not necessarily true in this story about the slice of a man’s legacy that is devoted to his reason for living: Holy Orders, most especially the priesthood.

That man is Monsignor Eugene Michael Yennock who died last month at the age of 97, who devoted 73 years of his life to ordained service of God’s people. During the recent observance of liturgies and in the days afterward, The Catholic Sun had the opportunity to speak with those men he inspired to themselves seek ordination. They know very well what they’ve got in the man they followed in their own calling.