My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, and especially you, my dear brothers who are about to be ..............., I want to welcome all of you here today, and I want to welcome all of you who are joining us through the Internet.

• Ordinated

• Ornamented

• Ordained

• Obtained

This is a beautiful day in the life of the family of God here in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. This is a unique ....................... — the first time we’ve ever celebrated an ordination outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

• celebration

• celebry

• celebra

• celebrration

The ............................ is so important, not only for the Church, but also for the whole world. Every priest is a sign of God’s love, a sign that he is still working in the world, still carrying out his plan of redemption.

• priest

• priesthod

• prist

• priesthood

Today, our Lord is sending these men out to be messengers of his merciful love, stewards of his holy mysteries, and teachers of the truth about God and the sanctity and dignity of the ................... person.

• humann

• humans

• humilitas

• human

Dear Filiberto, Daniel, Michael, Jonathan, Justin, Thomas, Manuel and Louie: Jesus is ................. to each one of you today, personally, in the Gospel that we just heard.

• speaking

• telling

• claiming

• screaming

Jesus says to you: “It was not you who ......... me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain.”

And your ordination today is historic.

• choos

• chosen

• chosing

• chose

My brothers, you are the first priests of the .................. generation. And you will play an important role in the Church’s healing and rebuilding of our society in the wake of this deadly disease that has swept away so many of our certainties and securities.

• pandemic

• pandemia

• pandem

• pandemnic

The Church in this moment is called to go out to the places where people are hurting and suffering, the places that Pope Francis calls the “................ peripheries.”

• extremal

• exsotical

• exist

• existential

The words of the prophet that we hear in today’s first reading speak to your particular mission as priests:

He has sent me to bring .............. news to the afflicted, to bind up the brokenhearted. (…) to comfort all who mourn.

• god

• good

• gooding

• goding

Brothers, in a special way, you must bring ...... and help to restore people’s trust in the love of God and his mercy. And my the way we do that, is by the way we love.

• hopee

• hope

• hoppe

• hoping