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Mass of Thanksgiving
You are invited to the Mass of Thanksgiving celebrated by Fr. Emmanuel Wenke on Sunday, August 20th at 11:00 a.m. followed by a reception in the Bradley Centennial Hall where Fr. Manny will be giving individual blessings.
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Friar Emmanuel Wenke, OFM Conv., who grew up in Olean and was a member of St. John the Evangelist Parish, served at daily Mass at the Basilica and was a member of the Morning Star Family Holy Hour, will be ordained to the priesthood at Our Lady of Victory National Shrine & Basilica in Lackawanna on Tuesday, Aug. 15, at 2 p.m. He is a member of Our Lady of the Angels Province Franciscan Friars Conventual which is based in Ellicott City, MD. He will be ordained by Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., archbishop of Atlanta and a native of the Town of Tonawanda.
Friar Emmanuel completed his studies for the priesthood at Regis College in Toronto while residing at St. Bonaventure Friary. He served as a transitional deacon at the Franciscan Church of the Assumption in Syracuse. Prior to that, he spent three years as a theology instructor at Archbishop Currey High School in Baltimore.
He is the son of Deacon Matt and Mary Wenke of Olean. Deacon Wenke serves at the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels in Olean. One of six children, Friar Emmanuel’s sister, Sr. Frances Marie Wenke, CP, is a member of the Passionist Nuns of St. Joseph Monastery, a contemplative order in Whitesville, KY.
Friar Wenke will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving on Wednesday, Aug. 16, at St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church, 4263 St. Francis Dr., Athol Springs, N.Y., with a second Mass of Thanksgiving to be celebrated Sunday, Aug. 20, 11 a.m., at the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels in Olean.
Editor’s note: The ordination Mass will be livestreamed. To view OLV National Shrine & Basilica’s livestream platform, please go to https://www.olvbasilica.org/live-streaming -
