Viatorians Celebrate More Vocations in Colombia
12/9/2011

Br. Frank Enciso, CSV, serves as vocation director for the Viatorians in Bogotá, Colombia, and now he has acted on his own advice. He has responded to God’s call in his life and was ordained a deacon as part of his formation process in becoming a priest.

“This is a significant moment in the Foundation of Colombia,” says Fr. Thomas von Behren, CSV, provincial. “The community has been blessed with a steady stream of vocations over the past several years and Frank’s ordination is a visible sign of new life happening within the Viatorian Community.”

As an ordained deacon, Br. Enciso is completing his internship at San Basilio Magno Parish, under the direction of its pastor, Fr. Edgar Suarez, CSV. He will celebrate baptisms and marriages, and be assigned to visit to the hospitalized and homebound, as well as preach at Masses and work in youth ministry.

Br. Enciso is the first diaconate ordination in three years in Colombia, but there are more men moving into the formation process. Currently, there are four men entering their second year in the pre-novitiate at Colegio San Viator, with another four starting discernment at the Viatorian Formation House.

This latest ordination further underscores the Viatorians as an international community. Its priests and brothers work with lay Viatorian associates in the provinces of Canada, Chile, Spain and the United States.

They also serve in the Viatorian foundations of Belize, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Colombia, the Ivory Coast, Haiti, Honduras, Japan, Peru and Taiwan, as well as in the delegation of France.

No matter where they serve, Viatorians strive to carry out the vision of their founder, Fr. Louis Querbes, as being educators of faith and advocates for “those accounted of little importance.”