(Mirror photo by Gary M. Baranec) Monsignor Michael Servinsky is vicar general for the Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown and rector of Holy Rosay Parish.

It was a crisp September day in 1964 when 14-year-old Robert Mazur was dropped off at St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore. Mazur, a Cresson native, was not allowed any contact with family members for two months. Although he knew he always wanted to be a priest, it was the most difficult time of his life. “I mean you’re 14, going to Baltimore. I was like, ‘oh my goodness, what am I getting into?’ That was not easy on anyone. It was very hard on my mom and dad too,” said Mazur, rector at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament and director of the Office of Liturgy for the Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown. That day will forever be etched in Mazur’s mind. The other day that sticks out in Mazur’s memory is May 8, 1976, the day he was ordained at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Altoona. “It was sort of a little chilly spring day. As I was getting ready that morning, I was shaving and looking in the mirror and I thought this date is going to be on my headstone when I di.