PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
The Rev. Emeritus Fr. Michael J. Bazzi, L.S.T., has pastored at St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Church in El Cajon, San Diego, from since 1985. Fr. Michael has also served as a professor of modern and classical Aramaic at Cuyamaca College in El Cajon for since 1989. Fr. Michael is a distinguished Bible authority, author, teacher, linguist, translator, and pastoral counselor. Born in Tilkepe, Iraq, a suburb of Nineveh, he graduated seminary at St. Peter's College, Baghdad, and was ordained into the priesthood in that same year, 1964. He served eight years in Tilkepe as an assisting priest speaking his native language of Aramaic, as well as Arabic. He then travelled to the Vatican in Rome where he earned a Masters Degree in Pastoral Theology. While in Italy he gained a broad knowledge of the Italian and French languages. Fr. Michael arrived in Oshkosh - Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1974. Here he taught and preached Scripture from the Aramaic point of view. Later, he established parishes in Oak Park and Troy, Michigan, and in 1983-85, served in Los Angeles, CA. Fr. Michael moved to San Diego in 1985. In 1987, he became pastor of St. Peters Church in El Cajon, where he is presently serving. Fr. Michael was the San Diego Law Enforcement Associations' Citizen of the Year in 2010.
