“Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.” — Will Rogers
Yesterday morning we had our first businessmen’s faith and finance breakfast at a local diner. Brenner Lecompte from Morgan Stanley shared his journey from the seminary to finance, and pointed out how we can easily place wealth over our relationships. He also said his own business took off once he started asking God what his mission was. He now sees how God is using him to help others use their talents at the service of relationships. Finally, he highlighted the great assistance having a priest as a spiritual coach has been for him as he juggles work with his duties as a husband and father while completing an MBA.
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.
“Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.” — Will Rogers