This desire only deepened through many years of questioning and longing for a relationship with Jesus. Her spiritual journey began at even a younger age through a profound attraction to the Liturgy and especially to the Eucharist. May the Divine One bless the work of our hands to serve.īarbara Mattus first heard the call to priesthood at age nine. I believe my music ministry, will again be the open-door gift to developing a new faith community here. After years in Oregon, raising our family of six kids and now 18 grandchildren and one great grandchild with my husband, Larry, we have now moved back to Alaska. Now as I look back to the late 1980s, he was truly calling me to priesthood, and I’m delighted to say that his prophetic voice came to fruition on September 10th 2022 when I was ordained a Roman Catholic woman priest. When he asked me to consider being one of those people I hesitated because I saw myself as just a convert and someone who used her gift of music at Mass. When in Alaska and due to the priest shortages there, Bishop Michael Kinney was looking for people to lead the local parishes for weeks on end when we would be without a priest. As I grew to learn and love more about the Catholic Church and the Sacraments, I became very involved in my parish not only with music ministry but on the pastoral council and liturgy committees. A move to Alaska and the need for me to assist with my music abilities and guitar at a Dominican Brothers mission at the local Catholic Church, opened the door and awakened in me gradually my call to priesthood.
I was not raised Catholic but had very strong ties growing up in the Presbyterian Church.
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