More on Fr. Selzer ...

Rest in peace...Update: A correction to the first story below-that is Msgr. Rowland was the pastor of St. Joseph's in Columbia-Fr. Selzer's first assignment (not Newberry). And directly below is the Obituary, run in the Post and Courier this morning (8/17):

The Relatives and friends of Reverend Lee A. Selzer are invited to attend his Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 AM Saturday, August 18, 2007 at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. The Rite of Committal will be in Hoy Cross Cemetery. The Vigil Service will be held at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist this Friday evening at 7:00 PM, the family will receive friends after the Vigil Service until 9:00 PM. Father Selzer was the director of pastoral ministry to the Hispanic community of Charleston. He was born August 5, 1968 at Patrick Air Force Base, FL a son of Robert and Catherine Selzer. Father Selzer was a graduate of The Citadel Class of 1990 and Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein, ILL. from which he holds a Licentiate of Sacred Theology degree. After his graduation from The Citadel, Father worked as a computer expert in a publishing house in Massachusetts and then went to Belize as a lay missioner with the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity before he entered the seminary to study for the priesthood. Father Selzer was the only priest ordained for the Diocese of Charleston on June 8, 2002 at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. His first assignment was as pastoral associate at St. Joseph in Columbia and than as administrator for St. Mark in Newberry, Holy Spirit Mission in Laurens and St. Boniface Church in Joanna. He is survived by his parents and four sisters

From the Charleston Post & Courier:

Father Lee A. Selzer, director of Pastoral Ministry to the Hispanic Community of Charleston, died Tuesday after slipping into a diabetic coma, the Catholic Diocese of Charleston reported. He was 39.

Selzer, who was ordained a priest in 2002, worked at three parishes in the Newberry area before Bishop Robert Baker, concerned about the young priest's health, recently reassigned him to Holy Spirit Catholic Church on Johns Island, according to the bishop's office.

Selzer had celebrated his first Spanish Mass over the weekend, exclaiming afterward, "It's like being in heaven!" according to the Rev. Msgr. Charles Hutson Rowland.

"He was so happy to be assigned to assist the Hispanic people, whom he loved," Rowland said. "And now he is in heaven."

Rowland and Selzer had worked together at Holy Spirit in Newberry. "This was like a reunion," Rowland said.

Selzer's funeral will be held at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist at 11 a.m. Saturday. The wake service is at 7 p.m. Friday, also at St. John the Baptist.