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Left: Legionary brothers James Cleary, Gabriel Wendt, David Spillane y Esteban Castellanos.
“Unless your talents become service, they remain sterile.” – Thomas Alexander
I knew Br James Cleary when he was a toddler running around my parents’ house. Now he is studying in Rome.
On May 12th Br. James and his brother Legionaries joined thousands of others seminarians and priests for an encounter with Pope Francis. During the Q&A, the Holy Father highlighted the importance of intellectual formation, community life and leadership as service.
All of us lead others in one way or another. How do I view that role? Is it only to feed my vanity and thirst for control? Or, do I truly see it as opportunity to serve?
Pope Francis is inviting us to look to Jesus, the Good Shepherd, who serves his sheep so closely that he shares their smell.
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The Pope greeting Legionary seminarian Br. Mauricio Ruiz, L.C.
About Fr Simon Devereux LC
FR SIMON was born on February 4, 1979, in Dunedin, New Zealand, the seventh son of Marie and Michael Devereux. He entered the novitiate of the Legionaries of Christ in Cheshire, Connecticut, on September 15, 1997. After his novitiate and year of humanities in Cheshire, he studied a bachelor’s in Philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome from 2000 to 2002 and from 2005 to 2007, a licentiate in Philosophy. In between, he worked as a youth minister in Quebec, Canada, and he made his perpetual profession in Rome on October 4, 2005. In 2010 he completed a three-year bachelor’s degree in Theology and was ordained on Christmas Eve of the same year with 60 of his brother Legionaries by Card. Velasio di Paolis. Two of his brothers are also Legionary priests. Fr Simon is now based at the Legion of Christ seminary in Cheshire, Connecticut.