My name is Deacon Adam Frey, and I am in my final year of seminary at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. I grew up in a Catholic family from New Orleans that was always involved in the parish. Throughout my time in High School, the idea of priesthood was in my head, but I never gave it any serious thought. I had my plan of going to university where I would study electrical engineering, but it was while I was at the University of South Alabama that I finally said “yes” to discern the priesthood. It was at university that the faith became my one insofar as that I was the one making the decision to go to Mass on Sunday as well as daily Mass along with weekly adoration.

Since being in the seminary I have matured as a man and grown in my spiritual life. Throughout these years I have had numerous summer assignments in parishes across the diocese where I was able to gain real parish experience and have a better idea of what the life of a priest entails. My longest time in a parish was at Sacred heart in Hattiesburg where I spend a year between my second and third years of theology where I was given the opportunity to really see what the calendar year of a parish entails.
When I have free time, I enjoy going for a bike ride on the levy along the Mississippi River in New Orleans. I am the house tailor of the seminary which entails resewing the hems of pants or buttons back on garments, as well as measuring guys for cassocks and other liturgical garments.  I have a great devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows, who is also the patroness of our state of Mississippi. I was always drawn to the sorrowful mysteries of the rosary, and when I learned of this Marian title there was a near immediate devotion formed.