"These were the things that after 20 years as a priest, I needed  to let  God's grace be poured out upon [those things including the] misery.  Saint Faustina said there is nothing in your life that God's mercy does  not want to be poured out upon - to heal and convert."

Very Reverend Bryan Brooks is the vicar for priests for the Diocese of  Tulsa & Eastern Oklahoma. Fr. Bryan was ordained to the priesthood  for the diocese of Tulsa in 1993. He grew up Methodist with his 3 siblings in Oklahoma City.  Fr. Bryan entered the Catholic church at St. John's Catholic Student Center  while  a college student at OSU in Stillwater. Fr. Bryan earned a Bachelors  degree in Forest Management  from Oklahoma State University and attended seminary college at Conception Seminary. He received his Master of  Divinity from St. Meinrad Seminary in Indiana. Fr. Bryan has served as pastor of three parishes in the Tulsa diocese before becoming pastor at his current parish, the Church of Saint Benedict in  Broken Arrow. In 2016 he was appointed the Vicar for Priests for the Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma.