Formation Stage: Propaedeutic
Diocese: Austin
Hometown: Waco, TX
Home Parish: St. Philip, China Spring
Mason David Phythian
I first felt the call when I was 16 at a Steubenville Lonestar Conference. I was there with my youth group, and it was going great, and I was having a good time. On the last day, following Mass, the bishop who said Mass called for any young man who felt like God might be calling him to holy orders to come forward to be blessed. I was scared out of my mind. It was a completely new call to me, and no people were going up, but I knew I had to go, so I did. We received a blessing and a few resources. After that I did a few retreats and talked to my vocation director.
Favorite Quote or Bible Verse
“No one should eat this flesh without first adoring it; we should sin were we not to adore it.” – St. Augustine
Fun Fact
I can almost do the splits.