Fr. Augustine and Friends - Tribute to Fr. Leo Celano (Guest is Rob Bauer)

Fr. Augustine Puchner is a member of the Norbertine community of St. Michael's Abbey.  His topic today is Fr. Leo Celano, also a priest of the Norbertine community, who died recently at age 89.  Fr. Leo was the first American-born vocation of the Norbertine community after the community relocated from Hungary to the United States.  Fr. Leo was active in the pro-life movement, and worked in prison ministry.

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Welcome to Father Augustine and friend's father Augustine partner is a Norbertine priest and is the new host for Spirit filled radio. Each week, Father invites his friends in ministry to sit down and have a discussion about all things Catholic, expect to always feel part of the conversation as we dive in and explore our love of the faith. Here's father Augustine.

Fr. Augustine: 0:30

Hello again, everyone, and welcome to another episode of father Augustine and friends. For our listeners today, we have a very special show today is a tribute show. And we'll get to the details. After we have our opening prayer. And I'm going to welcome my guests for today and explain why this is going to be very special conversation, as always, but uniquely special today. Let us pray in the name of the Father to the Son of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this opportunity to share the gift of our faith in my conversation today with my dear friend. And as we remember, another dear friend who is with us spiritually today, may all that we do continue to be inspired by your grace, may we witness to your truth. May we continue to serve gratefully, the church and may that Holy Spirit continue to strengthen us. We ask all this through Christ our Lord. Amen. In the name of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit. Amen. All right. I mentioned in my prayer, that I am joined by my dear friend, Mr. Rob Bower Rob, welcome to the show.

R Evermode Bauer: 1:35

Thank you, father. It's an honor and a pleasure.

Fr. Augustine: 1:37

It is my pleasure to have you with me. Now we are also remembering another friend who is not with us spiritually because as we are recording the show today, it is the day after Robin I lost one of our best and dearest friends. Father Leo's Shimano Norbertine, priest of St. Michael's Abbey. He passed away yesterday, which was March 1 of 2022. And Rob and I have had a very special and unique friendship not only among ourselves, but also with Father Leo. So you know, we're still kind of in mourning that we lost such a great priest, a great Norbertine and a dear friend. He is like the third friend who's with us spiritually. So it's not just Robin i It's Rob and I and follow Leo, may he rest in peace. And we have a number of great stories that we're going to share today, as manifestations of again, as always, on my show the work of God's grace in our lives. So but before we get to our stories, and our reflections on the importance of father Leo, and his friendship in our lives, I just want to introduce Rob a little bit, Rob is a little reluctant to talk about himself. Right. So I'm gonna give you a little background of our friendship of almost 25 years, because I first met Rob when I was a very almost newly ordained priest, serving on Sundays at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Irvine, California, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. And Rob at that point, that was his regular Sunday parish. And we began a friendship that has been just very, very fruitful and very special in many ways. So that's sort o