From Angelus News:
As a kid in Mexico, Ruben Quezada was already learning what it took to serve others, being the errand boy for the family. If anyone needed anything, be it milk or tortillas, Quezada went off to get it and bring it back.
“I liked it,” Quezada said of his errands as a youth. “They were not paying me or anything, but I liked to serve.”
That experience helped prepare Quezada for another kind of service years in the future. On Saturday, June 6, he and six other men — Anton Trang Dang, Edgar Rafael Jimenez, Jose de Jesus Martin, Eduardo Martinez Rivero, Enrique Mota Hernandez, and Paulinus Osy Ofondu — were ordained as permanent deacons at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
For Quezada, once the ordination Mass was over, he could hardly contain himself.
“Oh, my heart doesn’t feel like it’s in my chest; it’s like trying to explode,” he said. “I can really feel God, his presence in all this. He was with us the whole way since the beginning.
“I just want to be humble and put myself in God’s hands to follow him and to listen to his voice, whatever he wants to send me. I’ll be there.”
In his homily, Archbishop José H. Gomez called on the new deacons to be a sign to those whose hearts are “divided” and who have “stopped believing that love is possible.”
“Deacons are called to live as the personification of goodness, and friends of God,” Archbishop Gomez said. “Jesus sent you out to bear fruits of love in this world, where love has gone cold.
“Love the people you serve. Love them as Jesus loves them. And through your love, help them to see the beautiful reality that God is with us.”
Congratulations, brothers, and welcome! Ad multos annos!
