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Nicaragua native becomes deacon

Luis Roger Largaespada will be ordained a transitional deacon Saturday, April 19.

Published: 04.11.08

Luis Roger Largaespada, 29, whose home parish is Good Shepherd in Miami, will be ordained a transitional deacon — the final step before priestly ordination — Saturday, April 19, 11 a.m. at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach.

Largaespada is currently in his eighth year of formation and third year of theological studies at St. Vincent de Paul, where he is working toward a master’s degree in theology.

He was born June 23, 1978, in Managua, Nicaragua, the third of seven children, six boys and one girl. His parents, Luz Marina Gutierrez and Luis R. Largaespada, live in Nicaragua with four of his brothers, and another brother and his sister live in Miami.

Largaespada graduated from G. Holmes Braddock Senior High in 1997 and worked in retail sales, automobile mechanics, as security in a discount store and as a youth minister before entering St. John Vianney College Seminary in Miami in 2000.

His pastoral assignments in the Miami area include service at Camillus House, a homeless shelter; work in youth ministry; work at St. Catherine of Siena Parish and a pastoral year at St. Joseph Parish, Miami Beach; door-to-door evangelization at Corpus Christi Parish; ministry to the elderly at Green Briar Nursing Home; and AIDS ministry at Genesis House.

He also spent summers working in migrant ministry in Clarksville and South Hill, Va., and in the Palm Beach Diocese’s School of Evangelization, as well as at Veterans Administration hospitals in New York and as a vocational radio program host for Radio Paz, the archdiocesan station in Miami. He will spend his diaconate year serving at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Miami.

After his April 19 ordination, he will serve as a deacon at the following Masses:

• Good Shepherd Parish, Miami: Sunday, April 20, 10:30 a.m. Mass in English and noon in Spanish;

• St. Joseph Parish, Miami Beach: Saturday, April 26, 5:30 p.m. Mass in English and Sunday, April 27, 9:30 a.m. Mass in English and 12:30 p.m. in Spanish.

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