Father Sean Wilson
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The First Five Years Father Sean Wilson Reflects on His First Years as a Priest BY KARY EL L EN B ER GER
Several versus in the Bible allude to whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith. For Father Sean Wilson, his dedication to prayer and faith led to his priestly ordination five years ago. Father Wilson noted that becoming a priest started as an idea, slowly becoming a reality over time. “I knew in high school [that I might want to be a priest] and I gradually began to take my faith more seriously,” Father Wilson said. “I got interested in the Church and what our Lord has continued to do.”
as a Lenten practice,” he said. “After Easter came, I kept praying the Rosary every day. That came with me to college and I think Mary kept working on me.”
There are tough days. There are beautiful days, but in all of them, we simply get to be His servant. And that’s
After graduating high school, Father Wilson attended the University of Dayton for a year before switching to Bishop Simon Brute College Seminary where he graduated in 2011. His next stop was Mount St. Mary’s Seminary & School of Theology in Cincinnati. He was ordained to the priesthood in 2016.
Father Wilson’s first assignment was parochial vicar to the Petersburg Pastoral Father Wilson grew up in Vandalia and enough. Region, which includes the parishes of attended Emmanuel Catholic Church Immaculate Conception, Botkins; St. John, Fryburg; St. in Dayton. During his senior year at Butler High School, Lawrence, Rhine; and St. Joseph, Wapakoneta. In 2018, he Father Wilson took a step that drew him closer to his fatih. was named the pastor of the region. “For Lent that year, I began praying the Rosary every day 2 8 | T H E C ATHOLIC TE LEGR A PH
