Fr. Matthew Gomez
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"Trust Him that He's gonna lead the way"
Deacon Gomez, 27, was born Sept. 4, 1990 in Hialeah to Luis Fernando and Laura Gomez. He is the first of three brothers. He graduated from Immaculate Conception School in Hialeah in 2005 and Msgr. Edward Pace High School in Miami Gardens in 2009. He was the coordinator of Encuentros Juveniles, the youth movement of the Archdiocese of Miami. After attending St. Thomas University for a year right after high school, he entered the seminary, earning a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from St. John Vianney Seminary in 2013. He is completing a master’s in divinity at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary
His home parish is Immaculate Conception. His pastoral assignments have included service at San Lazaro, Hialeah, St. Michael the Archangel and the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity, Miami, and St. Louis in Pinecrest, as well as clinical pastoral education at the VA Health System Manhattan, New York City. He has served his diaconate year at Nativity Parish, Hollywood.
He will celebrate his first Masses Sunday, May 13, at 11 a.m. at Immaculate Conception and at 7 p.m. at San Lazaro; Sunday, May 20, at 9:30 a.m. at Nativity; and Sunday, May 27, at 12:30, 5:30 and 7:15 p.m. at St. Louis.
Currently Fr. Gomez is Faculty at St. John Vianney College Seminary.
