Fr. David Smith, MIC
Washington, D.C.

Father David Smith, MIC, grew up in Southern California in the city of Azusa.  He is from a large family of nine, with five sisters and three brothers. While growing up in the faith, David had a closeness to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and her presence in his life lead him to serve Christ and the Church. God’s grace and goodness in the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary opened his heart to God, and to the tender care of his Heavenly Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary.  

Father David graduated college with a business degree and worked in the business field for seven years before he heard the call to pursue the vocation of religious life. After a period of prayer and reflection (and some pilgrimages), Father David entered the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception in 2011 as a postulant.  Upon completion of his peminary work at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington D.C., Father David graduated in May 2020.  He was ordained to the Priesthood on August 17, 2020.  

Father David has been in active ministry at the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, as well as in parish ministry in several of the Marian Fathers’ parishes in Illinois and Wisconsin.  Currently, Father David is serving the Church in Washington D.C. in the Marian House of Studies, as well as at the Pentagon and the National Shrine of Saint John Paul II.