Priesthood
Aymond was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Philip Hannan on May 10, 1975. He then served as a professor and later rector at St. John Vianney Preparatory Seminary in New Orleans until 1981, when he became director of education and professor of pastoral theology and homiletics at his alma mater Notre Dame Seminary. From 1986 to 2000, he served as president-rector of Notre Dame; his tenure was the longest in the seminary's history.
During his priestly ministry, he also served as executive director of the Department of Christian Formation, with responsibility for Catholic schools and religious education. He was director of Society for the Propagation of the Faith and was a member of its national board (1977–2000). During the 1980s, Aymond and groups of seminarians from Notre Dame began to visit Mexico, where they built houses and offered religious training. In 1994 he founded Christ the Healer, a medical mission program of the New Orleans Archdiocese in Granada, Nicaragua.
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