Final Vows 2013-Two to be Ordained Holy Cross Deacons. Adam, who was born in London, is the eldest of David Booth’s three children. He has two younger sisters who still live in Hertfordshire, United …More
Final Vows 2013-Two to be Ordained Holy Cross Deacons.
Adam, who was born in London, is the eldest of David Booth’s three children. He has two younger sisters who still live in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 2004 with a degree in math.
He converted to Catholicism when he was in graduate school at the University of California Berkeley, where he received a master’s degree in math in 2008. During that time, Adam taught math at the San Quentin Prison Community College. That’s when he started seriously considering a religious vocation. “This was a truly inspirational environment for me and this way of serving felt at once perfectly right and an invitation to something else: I wanted my serving to become explicitly a witness to Christ’s self-emptying service so that I might invite others into relationship with God whose charity was urging me on.”
Adam entered Holy Cross as a Postulant in 2008 and earned his M.Div. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2013. “The ministries of the community certainly excited me – a diverse range of institutions of higher education, but also working as authentic educators in the faith in parishes and in direct service to the poor,” he said of his encounter with the Holy Cross Community.
Adam will serve his diaconate year at Holy Cross and St. Stanislaus Parish in South Bend, Ind., where he previously taught Bible study and CCD as a postulant. He is looking forward to more fully participating in Mass by preaching homilies, Baptizing people young and old into the Catholic faith, marrying couples and taking on the deeper responsibility of presiding and assisting at funerals. “It’s the holistic combination of all of these things into a parish where you build community and relationships that I’m looking forward to most about the coming year.”
As a former teacher, Adam is excited about being involved in the parish school and helping children deepen their faith and engage more fully in the Church’s sacramental life. He’s also looking forward to being there for sports, drama and other activities as a way to show that the Church values the students and is there for them in every aspect of their lives.
Eventually, Adam would like to continue his studies in Scripture and teach at one of the Congregation’s colleges or universities.
During his formation, Adam also performed social work at Parroquia Nuestra Madre Santísima de La Luz Parish in Monterrey, México. During his novitiate year in Colorado Springs, Adam served as a chaplain at Penrose Hospital and visited the homebound and taught RCIA at Sacred Heart Parish. He also worked with middle schoolers at St. John Vianney Parish in Phoenix. As a professed seminarian, Adam facilitated grief support groups at Ryan’s Place in Goshen, Ind.; performed financial counseling at Stone Soup in South Bend; offered marriage preparation and adult faith formation at St. Joseph Parish, South Bend; and did formation work at the Old College Undergraduate Seminary at Notre Dame.
Adam, who was born in London, is the eldest of David Booth’s three children. He has two younger sisters who still live in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 2004 with a degree in math.
He converted to Catholicism when he was in graduate school at the University of California Berkeley, where he received a master’s degree in math in 2008. During that time, Adam taught math at the San Quentin Prison Community College. That’s when he started seriously considering a religious vocation. “This was a truly inspirational environment for me and this way of serving felt at once perfectly right and an invitation to something else: I wanted my serving to become explicitly a witness to Christ’s self-emptying service so that I might invite others into relationship with God whose charity was urging me on.”
Adam entered Holy Cross as a Postulant in 2008 and earned his M.Div. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2013. “The ministries of the community certainly excited me – a diverse range of institutions of higher education, but also working as authentic educators in the faith in parishes and in direct service to the poor,” he said of his encounter with the Holy Cross Community.
Adam will serve his diaconate year at Holy Cross and St. Stanislaus Parish in South Bend, Ind., where he previously taught Bible study and CCD as a postulant. He is looking forward to more fully participating in Mass by preaching homilies, Baptizing people young and old into the Catholic faith, marrying couples and taking on the deeper responsibility of presiding and assisting at funerals. “It’s the holistic combination of all of these things into a parish where you build community and relationships that I’m looking forward to most about the coming year.”
As a former teacher, Adam is excited about being involved in the parish school and helping children deepen their faith and engage more fully in the Church’s sacramental life. He’s also looking forward to being there for sports, drama and other activities as a way to show that the Church values the students and is there for them in every aspect of their lives.
Eventually, Adam would like to continue his studies in Scripture and teach at one of the Congregation’s colleges or universities.
During his formation, Adam also performed social work at Parroquia Nuestra Madre Santísima de La Luz Parish in Monterrey, México. During his novitiate year in Colorado Springs, Adam served as a chaplain at Penrose Hospital and visited the homebound and taught RCIA at Sacred Heart Parish. He also worked with middle schoolers at St. John Vianney Parish in Phoenix. As a professed seminarian, Adam facilitated grief support groups at Ryan’s Place in Goshen, Ind.; performed financial counseling at Stone Soup in South Bend; offered marriage preparation and adult faith formation at St. Joseph Parish, South Bend; and did formation work at the Old College Undergraduate Seminary at Notre Dame.