On Saturday the 4th June, Deacon Ron Peters was ordained by Bishop Peter Ingham as a priest of the Wollongong diocese.

Ron Peters, an ex-student of Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield,  was a Patrician Brother for over twenty years. He was a popular classroom teacher; inspiring staff member; exceptional Religious Education co-ordinator; innovative vocations/formation director; a man of prayer who enjoyed and enlivened any Patrician community he was a member of. (Photo: Ron at right, cutting a house-warming cake with John Verhoeven and Joseph Crowley RIP, as a founding member of the Bradbury community.)

As a Brother, Ron was at the fore-front of proposing ordination for some of the Brothers so primarily they could act as school chaplains. Eventually the Congregation, after much discussion and prayer, decided that this was not an option. So it was not all that surprising that Ron eventually made the choice to leave the Brothers and to become a priest. While very disappointed to loose Ron, the Brothers were delighted that he was able to make the difficult decision to follow what he believed Christ was calling him to.

It was then on a magnificent Saturday morning then that hundreds of family and friends gathered at the sea-side Cathedral of Wollongong to witness Ron's ordination to priesthood. His road to ordination after leaving the Brothers had taken five years with time spent in study (some in Rome) and ministry in parishes, schools, and the women's gaol at Berrima.