Seminary at Regis

By: Agustin Alvarado

Regis has had a good number of students become priests, deacons, or are in the seminary. The students Regis knows now are Anms Berry, Father John Amsbery, Deacon Steve Tabor, Dan Parish, Mike Bence, Mickle Cruel, and Andrew Kelly. They may not all have been at Regis all four years of Regis but they graduated from Regis. The most information we have about some is from Mickle Cruel, Deacon Steve Tabor, and Father John Amsberry.

Mickle Cruel is from Stayton Oregon and grew up here. He has twelve siblings and two loving parents. He graduated from Regis in 2019. He was always open about discerning the priesthood and everybody knew. Everyone knew him as the happy smiley Cruel. Mickle Cruel joined the seminary soon after high school and is still doing seminary today. He took a two-year break but is now fully on track. During the summer of 2024, he went to Quo Vadis days and I met him and we talked about the seminary and certain focuses on the faith. 

 Father John Amsberry is the pastor of St. Joseph in Portland, Oregon. He was ordained in 1997. Father John has been spreading the faith for over 20 years. He was on the National Evangelization Teams for two years. Father did not completely do what he wanted to do and said  ¨in terms of my faith practice I would describe the first two decades of my life as basically going through the motions.¨ He describes this as being younger and misunderstanding the reason for attending Mass. Father John also shares this after he was confirmed “check-in-check-out mentality.¨