Rev. Daniel Baillargeon, Parochial Vicar

I was born, raised, and educated in Old Town, Maine. I attended St. Mary’s Parochial School and Old Town High School. I graduated from the University of Maine at Gorham with a degree in education and continued my career in middle school education as a teacher, administrator, coach, and director of musical theater. I also had a secondary career in social work, focusing on abused middle schoolers and their families.

Blessed John XXIII Seminary has provided wonderful spiritual, academic, and pastoral formation, especially in the integration of these pillars of formation.

As a priest, I seek to grow in appreciation of my life as being grace-laden and my spirits refreshed, again and again, by the One who comes to shower me with grace in the ordinariness of my days. Nurtured through prayer and manifested through service, I need only to reach out and take this gift of grace. May I be God’s instrument of peace, pardon, and hope; God’s instrument of answer to the question, “What is it that God sees in me?” inviting those to whom I minister, especially the little ones in our society: the sick, the forgotten, the imprisoned, the abusers, and the abused, to discover God’s gracious activity in the stories of their lives. I seek to help God’s faithful to realize that God may give graces in places they may not have looked before. I hope to invite them to see their lives in terms of the graced activity and encourage them to become active cooperators and co-creators with the Triune God. I believe that God is not bound by certain institutions or building or persons. I reverence the unlimited possibilities of God’s graciousness in our blessed world and invite the people of God to accept God’s grace as potential newness in all of life.