Class Notes Fall 14.10_Class Notes Spring04.4 8/20/14 6:20 PM Page 1 Class NotesNotes News and Information for Alumni of St. Charles College, IN THIS ISSUE St. Mary’s Seminary College and St. Mary’s Seminary Faculty News. 2 Community Highlights. 4 Senior Priests . 6 Continuing Formation Programs 7 Graduation . 8 Alumni News . 10 St. Charles College & St. Mary’s Seminary Deacon class at Graduation 2014 College . 10 St. Mary’s Seminary . 12 n Thursday, May 15, the St. Mary’s Seminary & University community gathered In Memorium . 15 Ofor graduation to mark the achievements of twenty-one seminarians and twen- ty-two E.I. students. It was a celebratory evening with diplomas handed to each grad- Heritage Society. 22 uate by the Chancellor, Archbishop William E. Lori. Honorary doctorates were given to two leaders of faith communities. We honored Bishop Donald Trautman, the bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Erie who had been a long time Board member and a shepherd of the flock in Erie for more than twenty years, and Rabbi Joel Zaiman who was Senior Rabbi of Chizuk Amuno in Baltimore for 23 years. A simulating and inspiring graduation address was delivered by Dr. Christopher Leighton, the Executive Director of the Institute for Jewish and Christian Studies. While that May evening marked the completion of an academic program, it also ini- tiated a commencement, especially for the 12 deacons who were leaving the next day to prepare for ordination in their respective dioceses. This commencement, this movement to ordination as priests after the heart of Christ, the Good Shepherd is the center of what St. Mary’s has always been about. New assignments for the recent Fall 2014 graduates are listed in this issue of Class Notes. They have begun their ministry of Word, Sacrament, and Shepherding. They have joined their thousands of priest brothers who are alumni. Our prayers go with them in a special way in these early months of priestly ministry as our prayers go with all of our alumni in their lives as disciples and priests. Ad multos annos! Rev. Thomas R. Hurst, S.S. and St. Mary’s Seminary Community Class Notes Fall 14.10_Class Notes Spring04.4 8/20/14 6:20 PM Page 2 Faculty News Graduation 2014: (left to right) Rev. Thomas R. Hurst, S.S., Rev. Thomas Burke, O.SS.T., Dr. Christopher Leighton (Commencement Speaker), Most Rev. Donald Trautman (Honorary Degree Recipient), Dr. Brent Laytham, Rabbi Joel Zaiman (Honorary Degree Recipient), Rev. James L. McKearney, S.S., Most Rev. William E. Lori. Fr. Thomas R. Hurst, S.S., President Fr. Burke traveled to St. Patrick's in Menlo Park to observe the Rector, SMS’73, made a presentation to the STB comps as the Praeses of the Ecclesiastical Theological Serra Club of Baltimore “Jesus the Faculty with whom St. Patrick's is affiliated to grant Proclaimer of the Kingdom and his Parables” Ecclesiastical degrees. At the end of May, he attended Joint on February 27. Also in February, he spoke Pilots Project for the ATS/NCEA Seminary Department at the Mid- Atlantic Congress in Baltimore Assessment Project to that focused on assisting Catholic sem- “Preaching the Paschal Mystery: The New inaries to be in mutual compliance in outcomes assessments of Evangelization.” In June, Fr. Hurst gave a the education and formation programs with the PPF (5th ed.) presentation at the Priests Convocation in the Diocese of Erie, and the accreditation standards of ATS so as to eliminate “The Letters of St. Paul: Insights for Priestly Ministry.” duplicate reporting. Fr. Burke was on the panel as Fr. Andrew Nelson, SMS’13, (Manchester), defended his STL thesis on May 13. He will Fr. Thomas J. Burke, O.SS.T., SMSC’74 also be on the panel when Fr. Royd Mweemba defends his STL and SMS’78, attended the Middle States thesis at a later date. Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) in Philadelphia to learn more about the Periodic Review Report (PRR) Msgr. David I. Fulton, SCC’61 and required of all colleges and universities in SMS’67, presented a breakout session lecture the Middle States Region that is required at the MAC Congress, titled “A New every five years between the decennial Paradigm for Leadership in the New report. SMSU continues to be fully accredited and this is part Evangelization.” He also spoke at the of the agency's regular process. The next full accreditation NOCERCC Convention, which met in visit will be in 2021. Baltimore in February. This was a plenary- session lecture on the Seal of Confession. 2 Class Notes Fall 2014 Class Notes Fall 14.10_Class Notes Spring04.4 8/20/14 6:20 PM Page 3 In February, Dr. Michael Gorman gave the Fr. Lawrence B. Terrien, S.S., SCC’66 and annual Harrison Lectures, on the book of PS’68, held an instructional session with Revelation, at Mount Olive University in the Permanent Deacon Candidates on Mount Olive, NC. During Lent he gave two Sacraments in General and the Sacraments presentations at St. Anne’s Episcopal Church in of Baptism and Confirmation in January. In Annapolis as well as lectures in person or by March, he participated in a day of recollec- Skype at the Frederick (MD) School of Religion tion for the priests of the Diocese of and at several churches and colleges around the Camden. From March 31-April 4, he par- country. From Easter Monday to May 2 he led a study tour to ticipated in a session of formation for Sulpician candidates of the Greece, Turkey, and Rome, accompanied by 15 others, including French and Canadian Provinces on diocesan priestly spirituality. Fr. Chris Lubecke, SMS’14 (Louisville). Fr. Terrien assisted Fr. Dominic Maruca with the “Veterans of the Campaign” retreat, with a group of 18 senior priests here at St. Dr. Gorman has recently published an article on the theme of Mary’s Seminary from May 19-23. peace in Revelation and a review article on N. T. Wright’s book Paul and the Faithfulness of God. Dr. Gorman’s newest book, The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant: A (Not So) New Model of the Atonement, came out from Cascade/Wipf and New Faculty Stock in June. Several of Dr. Gorman’s photographs of the St. Mary’s campus have been printed on canvas and hung in the Fr. Scott Detisch, Associate Professor Forum Café. of Systematic Theology is from the Diocese of Erie, PA, where he was ordained in 1987. He holds a doctor- Fr. Robert F. Leavitt, S.S., SMS’68 organized ate in Systematic Theology and taught and chaired a blue ribbon committee of parish- for many years at Gannon University ioners which planned the 40th anniversary cel- in Erie. In that time he also became ebration of Our Lady of Grace Church in Director of the University’s Center for Parkton, MD on Saturday, March 29. One of the Pastoral Studies. Fr. Detisch then served on the faculty at last official acts of the late Lawrence Cardinal Christ the King Seminary in East Aurora, NY and helped Shehan was to appoint St. Mary’s alumnus to direct the Spiritual Formation Program there. Upon (1957), Msgr. Edward Lynch, now retired, as the returning to the Erie Diocese, Fr. Detisch became pastor of first pastor of the parish. St. Mary’s Seminary’s Schola and jazz Holy Cross Parish in Fairview, PA. While serving as pas- band members, James O’Reilly, James Smith, Nicholas Petrillo, tor, Fr. Detisch also taught as an adjunct professor at St. and Mateus de Souza, along with music director, Paul Binko, sang Mary Seminary in Wickliffe, OH. and played as part of the evening’s festivities. St. Mary’s alumnus (1989), Father Sam Young, is currently pastor. In addition to Fr. James L. McKearney, S.S., a St. teaching at St. Mary’s, Father Leavitt currently assists at Our Lady Mary’s alumnus, returns to St. Mary’s of Grace Parish. His weekly homilies can be found on the parish as associate professor of systematic the- website www.ourladygrace.org. ology. He earned his master of science Fr. Leavitt and the trustees of the “Food for Thought Learning degree in Music Education from the Center” will relocate the after-school tutoring program in fall Western Connecticut State University 2014 to the newly-renovated Archbishop Borders School in East at Danbury, (1988) his M.Div. and Baltimore. Sister Mary Ann Hartnett, SSND, will remain as the STB from St. Mary’s (1996) and his program’s director. Food for Thought was begun in 1990 by Father licentiate in systematic theology at the Gregorian Leavitt and St. Mary’s trustees Michael J. Batza, Jr., Earl Linehan, University, Rome (2004). Fr. McKearney also received his and James T. Cavanaugh, and it has remained under their direc- doctorate in systematic theology also at the Gregorian in tion since then. The program serves twenty elementary school 2008. Ordained a priest of Hartford in 1997, he was children and fosters scholarship aid for students in private appointed by the Sulpicians to St. Patrick’s Seminary & Catholic secondary schools and college programs locally. Over University in 1999 later serving the same seminary as dean the years, many St. Mary’s seminarians have generously volun- of students, vice rector and president-rector in 2009. teered at Food for Thought. Fall 2014 3 Class Notes Class Notes Fall 14.10_Class Notes Spring04.4 8/20/14 6:20 PM Page 4 Community Highlights Spring Semester 2014 Most Rev. Francis X. DiLorenzo, Bishop of Richmond, ordained Rev.