From California-
“This is it,” the Rev. Dan Justin told me over the phone. “I’m here for as long as they’ll have me.”
Father Dan invited me to film him vesting for the Sunday service. He joked about sliding his monastic alb over his hairless pate.
Taking the pulpit for the first time at St. Michael & All Angels last Sunday, the rector seemed serene and confident. His new congregation opened the service with a procession in his honor, featuring representatives from every church ministry, from vestry to choir to solar outreach.
Justin comes relatively late in life to the Episcopal priesthood. Now 39, he spent 15 years in a career in higher education recruitment before he “discerned a call to the ministry” and put it to his church’s discernment committee.
“A priest is raised up by his community,” he explained, “people recognizing that call with you.”
After obtaining a Master of Divinity degree at the southern California campus of San Francisco Theological Seminary, Justin was sponsored for ordination by All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills, then completed his Ministry Study Year at St. John’s Cathedral in Los Angeles where he was ordained in 2009.
More here-
http://shermanoaks.patch.com/articles/the-reverend-f-c-daniel-justin-celebrates-his-first-holy-eucharist-at-st-michael-all-angels-episcopal-church#video-9066174
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