Rev. Taylor Sanford

I was born and raised in Baton Rouge in a Catholic home with my younger brother, attending St. George School and Church. In highschool I was an avid runner and proud member of the “orange wave” of Catholic High under the legendary Coach Pete Boudreaux. I first felt the Lord calling me to the priesthood in my senior year during a time of Eucharistic Adoration on a summer mission trip in 2010 through the St. George youth group. But lacking trust, I just pushed the thought to the back of my mind and went on to LSU to study chemical engineering. It was at the Catholic Student Center on campus (Christ the King) that I fell in love with Jesus Christ and desired to lay down my life for His Bride, the Church. But it was not that easy of a decision. It was accompanied with much prayer, discernment, and typical millennial angst, until my heart finally found peace in entering seminary after graduation. "It was not you who chose me, says the Lord, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last."