We have a new assistant Pastor too. He is from Colombia and was formerly a Military Policeman and was nearly killed. He was just ordained and speaks pretty good English. He’s been here about 4-5 years, so he came to milwuakee under Dolan. We have had a lot of good seminarians that were attracted to the priesthood by Cardinal Dolan when he was our Archbishop.
I haven’t heard a homily from him yet, but I’m hoping for good things. He’s excellent one on one. And handsome. Handsome always helps! He looks like he just stepped out of “The Greater Glory”. The interesting thing is that he has a Middle Eastern first name — Fr. Yamid Blanco — the Y is pronounced like J. Jah-meed’. I’ll have to hear the story about that. Maybe his mother was Lebanese.
When he got out of the military (after his near death experience) he was going to study law, but accepted a colleague’s invitation to apply to the Seminary in Milwaukee because of Abp. Dolan. He has 5 cousins who are priests. God Bless the Blanco family.
It sounds like He already has!
I speak Spanish and have spent time in Colombia. I also googled the name Yamid and even though it sounds middle eastern i could find nothing that indicated arabic derivation for it, and the only people named Yamid that it turned up on google were FROM COLOMBIA, so it could be that the name has some significance to the country? Several Colombian baseball players are named Yamid apparently.