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“I found myself woven into a love story so ancient and intricate - one where ‘the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.”
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My name is Myles Forgue. I am called to serve Christ and His Church as a priest with the Diocese of Fall River. This is my story.
I was raised in a Catholic family and attended Catholic schools, finding Sunday Mass to be a steady constant in a variable world. As a young boy, I became an altar server and saw myself as part of a larger story, immersed in the grandeur of the Goodness, Truth, and Beauty of our Faith.
When I was in the second grade, my mother was diagnosed with leukemia. This, along with the closing of our parish and school, led me to question the suffering of good people. I wrestled with the Lord, yet realized that in order to wrestle, it meant that God and I were close. Through all of this, I came to know Christ as I stood in the shadow of the Cross. Confiding in the Father, I found hope in our suffering Lord. I learned that suffering, sickness, hope, and healing were a common thread linking me to the Faith of our Fathers. Through this thread, I found myself woven into a love story so ancient and intricate – one where “the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.”
I followed this thread eagerly, longing to know more about this Jesus of Nazareth. As I pulled more on the thread, He continued to tug on the strings of my own heart, undoing the knots and bringing me to greater friendship with Him and His people. The stronger He has tugged, the further I have followed; the Lord Himself taught me how He doesn’t see things as the world sees them. The more I learned of the ‘upside down’ logic of His Kingdom, the more earnestly I sought to see His will be done and to be His ambassador.
Following high school, I continued my Catholic education at Providence College. Studying marketing and theology came as a natural combination for me: marketing for its emphasis on authentic storytelling, and theology for its ability to discover how we seek and share meaning in the Truth.
Within our college campus ministry, I found joy in serving as a retreat leader and peer minister. I found myself making friends with those on the outskirts and realized that leadership is about laying down one’s life for your friends. I felt a true connection with our Lord who “loved His own and loved them to the end.”
Though successful in my studies and service, something was missing. My heart was restless. On Holy Thursday of my sophomore year, I was invited by my campus minister from high school to attend a Seven Churches visit, adoring our Lord at different parishes throughout my home diocese. The night culminated at the parish affiliated with my high school, and it was there that I experienced the Real Presence of our Eucharistic Lord in a way I never had before. As the priest read from John 16 – the account of the Last Supper – I recognized the Lord as He spoke to His disciples, and ‘the Word became flesh’ in my mind and heart. I realized that He was speaking to me, and His words pierced me to the core. I sensed a summons to set out on the great adventure of a life laid down for others.
Settling back into home life after college, our Lord prepared the way for me to share what I had been storing up in the treasury of my heart. I came to serve my parish and Diocese as a catechist, youth minister, and extraordinary minister of the Holy Eucharist, and it was through the encouragement of many that I learned I have the “heart of a priest.” As I turned to the direction of priests I knew and trusted, I discovered a deep and unique brotherhood in Christ. I came to see how the priesthood truly is the love of the Heart of Jesus. He wants to bring his healing, hope, peace, and joy to the world, and I get to share those gifts through my life.
God-willing, one day as a priest for my home diocese of Fall River, I will be blessed to bring God to the people and the people to God through the Sacraments, especially the Eucharist & Confession. I most look forward to offering the Sacrifice of the Mass and breaking open the Scriptures to God’s beloved children. I seek to inspire the hearts of others to burn within them, so they may recognize the Lord who walks with them daily.
Please pray for me and for my fellow Labouré classmates on our vocation journeys. Feel free to reach out with any questions you might have at: mylesforgue@rescuevocations.org
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