{"id":11139,"date":"2025-06-26T23:11:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/actualites\/nouvelles\/ordination-jonathan-baker\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T23:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:11:27","slug":"ordination-jonathan-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/ordination-jonathan-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordination of Jonathan Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A calling rooted in prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>We are delighted to announce that Jonathan Baker will be ordained a deacon for the Archdiocese of Montreal on Friday, September 12, 2025, at 7:30 p.m., at Saint-Thomas-\u00e0-Becket Church in Pierrefonds. The celebration will be presided over by Archbishop Christian L\u00e9pine.<\/p>\n\n<p>Born in Montreal and raised in a Catholic family, Jonathan has always maintained a connection to the faith, even during periods of spiritual lukewarmness. Consecrated to Our Lady from childhood, he attributes the key moments of his conversion and discernment to her intercession.<\/p>\n\n<p>For more than ten years, he explored the&nbsp;<b>contemplative life<\/b>&nbsp;in religious orders such as the&nbsp;<b>Trappists<\/b>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<b>Carthusians<\/b>, before discerning a call to the&nbsp;<b>priesthood<\/b>. After studying philosophy in Canada and the United States, he entered the&nbsp;<b>Grand S\u00e9minaire de Montr\u00e9al<\/b>&nbsp;in 2018. He completed his pastoral internship at Saint-Thomas-\u00e0-Becket Parish, where he will be ordained.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cI have come to bring fire to the earth&#8230;\u201d (Lk 12:49)<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cOur God is a consuming fire\u201d (Heb 12:29)<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cBe still, and know that I am God\u201d (Ps 46:10)<\/p>\n\n<p>  Please keep Jonathan in your prayers and join us in this celebration of hope and fidelity to God\u2019s call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A calling rooted in prayer We are delighted to announce that Jonathan Baker will be ordained a deacon for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}