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23 DENVER CATHOLIC | AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2025 Deacon David Orozco Home Parish: Holy Family, Fort Collins Assigned to: Immaculate Conception, Lafayette Where else shall we go? The world has made its proposal, and many have embraced it; I practiced it for a time and found only banality and loneliness. Man's vocation arises from a true encounter with Jesus. Having had this encounter with Christ, my vocation to serve my brothers and sisters, especially those most in need, was revealed to me. Precisely because many are abandoning the practice of faith and seeking truth and happiness, my desire is to lead these brothers and sisters to Jesus, so that they, too, may recognize, as I do, that Jesus is the truth, the way and eternal life. DENVER CATHOLIC | AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 2025 23 Man's vocation arises from a true encounter with Jesus." DCN. DAVID OROZCO Deacon Alvio Rangel Home Parish: Our Lady Mother of the Church, Commerce City Assigned to: Our Lady Mother of the Church, Commerce City Jesus has been fighting for this lukewarm and sinful man many times, but with gentleness and love, giving me the freedom to choose with a YES the call to service right in these times. Likewise, understanding that all my past experience, the present discernment and the fact that as a permanent deacon it is possible to go to places where even priests find it difficult to go, have clarified my heart with hope and strength to go in search, guided by the Holy Spirit, of those souls that need to be brought back to the fold of the Church, because we are all children of God.