Veritas - Winter 2003 Newsletter

’02 Doctor of Ministry Grads Commissioned at Cor Jesu Chapel

Four D.Min candidates and their mentors responded to the Call to Commission and the Proclamation of the Word during the Commission ceremony at Cor Jesu Chapel on December 13, 2002. In the audience of family, friends, colleagues, and fellow students were scores of supporters from St. Vincent DePaul Regional Seminary and the First Hungarian United Church of Christ in Miami as Sister Margarita Gomez and Reverend Eva Lukacsi, Jeffrey Krauss and Patricia Sandall gave synopses of their thesis-projects.

“We are very proud of our graduates and of the cultural and theological diversity their work represents,” said Dr. Alicia Marill, Director of the DMin program. The thesis-projects addressed a variety of ministries: Prophetism and Ordained Priesthood in the Light of Jeremiah the Reluctant Prophet (Gomez); Hospice Chaplaincy and the Virtue of Hope (Krauss); Theology of Proclamation as Evangelization in the First Hungarian United Church of Christ, Miami (Lukacsi); and Toward Pastoral and Liturgical Guidelines for the Celebration of the Quinceanera at Old Mission Santa Barbara (Sandall). The four were awarded the doctorate in ministry at the December 14 commencement.