Recently, my bishop, Donald Degrood visited to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. He preached at a beautiful homily, which proved to me that he “gets” redemptive suffering. Thus, he gets my mission. I wept all during the homily. It was a blessed time.
Fr. Dana Ambrose Christensen, Obl. OSB is a priest of the diocese of Sioux Falls, SD and an Oblate of the Monasterio di San Benedetto in Monte, in Norcia, Italy. He was diagnosed with ALS in 2019. Since then, he has retired from active ministry and now spends most of his time praying before the Blessed Sacrament, writing, and providing commentary on current events on various social media platforms.