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Hello, I'm Fr. Sam Futral!
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June 5, 2023Greetings in Christ!
I am Father Sam Futral, recently appointed as Senior Parochial Vicar for St Elizabeth Ann Seton parish. I look forward to serving you as priest when I arrive at the end of June. Some of you may remember that I previously served at Seton as Parochial Vicar from 2012-2014.
I was born in Savannah, Georgia on May 30, 1954. My desire after I graduated from high school was to go into chemical engineering. So I went to school at Georgia Tech and received my engineering degree in 1976. I served as an engineer for almost 30 years. Eventually my career would take me to Lafayette, Indiana where I worked as a process engineer for a contractor at what was then an Eli Lilly plant outside of town.
I was a convert to the Catholic Church. My parents raised me as a Baptist. Later I entered the Episcopal Church. When I arrived in Lafayette, I entered RCIA at St. Lawrence in Lafayette and was received into the Church on April 15, 2006.
It was in Lafayette that I began to discern that God was calling me to serve as a priest. I entered seminary in August 2007 at the Pope John XXIII seminary in Weston, Massachusetts and was ordained on June 9, 2012.
As I said before, my first assignment was at Seton for two years. I was then moved to St Francis Xavier in Attica and St. Joseph in Covington where I served as a Pastor for six years. After the reorganization in 2020, I moved to the Kokomo pastorate at St. Patrick and St. Joan of Arc in Kokomo. In August of 2021, my parents health was declining and I took a leave of absence to go to Roswell, Georgia to take care of them before they passed away. I was allowed to minister at St Peter Chanel Parish in Roswell and was in residence there during my stay in Georgia. I also helped out at Mary Our Queen parish in Peachtree Corners, Georgia as well as St. Lawrence parish in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
On April 26, 2023, I finished my work in Georgia and returned to the diocese on a temporary basis at Our Lady of Mount Carmel until I was assigned to Seton.
It has been an Interesting Journey but I would say that the 11 years of priesthood have been the best years of my life.
Blessings!
Father Sam
