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SPIRITUALITY
October 8, 2013
Fr. Brendan McGuire is pastor of Holy Spirit Parish in San Jose
and a Vicar General of the Diocese of San Jose. As Vicar General,
he is responsible for special projects such as the recently launched
Saint Katharine Drexel Initiative to revitalize Catholic Schools in
the Diocese. Before being ordained in 2000, Fr. Brendan was an
executive in a technology company and still loves to use technology
such as Facebook, podcasts and YouTube to bring people to a deeper
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