For the fifth year in a row, St. Mark's University Parish in Isla Vista (UCSB) is pleased to welcome OFM, cap novices. As many students know, the friars are primarily here to work with the graduate student community on Fridays during the UCSB Fall through Spring quarters, but if you see them walking around campus or IV, please give them a shout out! as always, please pray for those in discernment to the religious life and priesthood. If you are more interested about becoming a Franciscan friar, please go to http://www.olacapuchins.org/
Br. Nathan Linton OFM, Cap.
Br. Nathan was raised in Cumberland, a small town in Northern Wisconsin. He was raised in the Catholic faith and always regarded it with a sense of importance, but can’t really say that he took it seriously until his father started the application to become a deacon in his home diocese of Superior, WI . Seeing his father answer the call, Br. Nathan starting asking questions and praying about his own life. After a lot of resistance, he finally gave the idea of priesthood a chance. The idea of giving himself completely to God in a life of poverty and simplicity became more and more attractive and the next thing he knew, he was studying for the Capuchin Franciscans at Loyola University Chicago. However, at the end of the first year, he had a few questions that needed answering and left to study for his home diocese at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. During this year, he realized the incredible gifts that God had given to him in the Capuchins and he entered as a postulant last August.
Hobbies: reading, hiking, listening to music
Music: Classical, Country
Saints: Venerable Solanus Casey, St. Hildegard Von Bingen
Sports Team: Green Bay Packers
Brother Scott Leet, OFM, cap
Brother Scott comes from St. Mary's Province of the Capuchin Order (New York- New England Province) and hails from a small town north of New York City called White Plains. He is a graduate of DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, with a BA in Philosophy and Classical Religion. Upon graduation, he spent 2 years in The Democratic Republic of the Congo as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer working in the area of water and sanitation. He has, also, completed two years of Theology Study at Seton Hall University, Orange, New Jersey, before deciding his true vocation was to be a lawyer. He attended and graduated from Fordham University School of Law with a JD, and then began a career with the New York County District Attorney's Office in New York City. While at DANY he prosecuted over 1200 cases that ranged in severity from petit larceny to rape and murder. During his career with DANY he served as a member of a number of different units including Welfare Fraud, Sex Crimes, Domestic Violence, and Homicide. Br. Scott also ran the Summer Intern Program for Three Years, was Deputy Chief of the Hate Crimes Unit and concluded his career as the Bureau Chief of a Trial Division in the Office of Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York. Br. Scott was also an Adjunct Faculty Member for 9 years at Fordham Law School.