Parish Staff

My name is Fr. Mac Lingo. I am a convert to the faith. No one in my family is religious or even believes in God, and I grew up that way myself. I experienced a profound conversion after living in many years of darkness and was baptized a Catholic at the Easter vigil of 2012. A few years later I felt God calling me again, this time to the priesthood. I didn't like this ideas at first, but after prayer, discernment, and a lot of though God made it very clear to me and I went to seminary for the Diocese of Oakland. I studied for one year at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, and them Bishop Barber decided to send me to St. John's Seminary in Boston for the remaining three years of my studies. I spent one year as a deacon at St. Louis Bertrand in Oakland (with your former pastor, Fr. Olman), and after my priestly ordination in September I was at St. Leander for five months before coming here. I'm looking forward getting  to know you all and serving the community here in Oakley. Please pray for me!