“A glimpse into the wider Church” is what seminarian Peter Langenkamp calls the One Faith, One Hope, One Love campaign.

Peter sees his own journey toward the priesthood as an example of how parishes share resources to become stronger under one Archdiocese.

“I’m from the northern edge of the Archdiocese, I went to Cincinnati to study at the seminary, and now I’ve been sent to help in Clermont County,” he said.

Peter, 27, hails from Holy Trinity parish in Coldwater, more than an hour’s drive northwest of Dayton.

As a seminarian intern at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary of the West, he’s assisting four parishes in the Cincinnati Archdiocese’s southeast region. One is Holy Trinity parish in Batavia.

“I’ve gone from Holy Trinity in the northwest to Holy Trinity in the southeast,” he said.

He’s also assisting those parishes’ efforts for the One Faith, One Hope, One Love campaign.

The campaign will contribute $16 million (12 percent of the $65 million total goal) toward fostering vocations.

“We need to remember that there’s only a handful of seminaries in the country,” Peter noted.

“Cincinnati is blessed, but with that blessing comes needs, for upkeep of buildings, additional professors, other things.

“Mount St. Mary’s has experienced positive growth, but because of that growth, there are growing needs. It’s a good problem to have, but it is a problem.”

Holy Trinity parish in Batavia has a long tradition of ingenuity and sharing of resources.

More than a century ago, when no Archdiocesan priests were available for Masses in Batavia, local Catholics obtained a promise from the Franciscan Order to provide a priest, with the permission of Cincinnati Archbishop Henry K. Moeller. This enabled the foundling parish to celebrate Mass in Batavia for the first time in 1906.

Peter, Holy Trinity’s newest visitor, entered the seminary in 2010 and expects to be ordained in 2017. A couple of summers ago he studied classical Greek at the Strand Campus of King’s College in London, England.

“Helping with the fundraising campaign has been a good formation experience for me,” he said. “An unexpected one, but a good one.”

Photos atop article are from from the June pilgrimage by Mount St. Mary’s seminarians. In descending order: Peter and the log cabin at St. Philomena Church, Clermont County; Peter and Athenaeum faculty member Fr. Paul Keller at the Sea of Galilee on the pilgrimage; Peter with Holy Land fare. Below: Peter, Holy Trinity pastor Fr. Jerry HIland (middle), Holy Trinity pastoral vicar Fr. Martin Bachman.