Fr. Jorge Omar Moncada Hernandez

Age: 28
Hometown: Mexico City, MX
Home parish: St. Cornelius, Long Beach
Favorite Hobby: Spending time with family and friends
First parish assignment: Resurrection Church, Long Beach
First Mass: Sunday, June 1 at 5pm – St. Cornelius Catholic Church (Long Beach)

Fr. Jorge is a self-proclaimed extrovert was born and raised in Mexico City and his family wasn’t exactly practicing Catholics. He grew up attending church three times a year: Christmas, Easter, and Ash Wednesday, however that didn’t stop him from taking his father’s dress shirts as a kid and pretending to use them as a priest’s chasuble or from cutting his grandmother’s flowers — much to her dismay — and going around pretending to bless people. After moving to Oxnard, Calif. in 2008 with his mother he became an altar server at his parish, Santa Clara Church in Oxnard, and other ministries followed. In high school he was set on joining the seminary but didn’t feel like he had enough life experience yet to fully commit to the priesthood, so he enrolled at Thomas Aquinas College and it was during his junior year that he responded to the calling to the priesthood.