About Me

I have been an EFM mentor for some 27 years in the Dioceses of Delaware and Massachusetts.

At U. D. I taught both traditional face-to-face classes and online classes for which where I received an Innovative Teaching Award.

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A professed member of the Third Order of St. Francis (TSSF), I was a rector of a parish in the Boston area, but, at canonical age limits, I have transitioned to become an itinerant, interim priest in 2023.

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In 2018, I went on sabbatical with a grant that enabled me to go on a solo pilgrimage hiking the Apennines to Assisi, walking pilgrim paths in the southern counties of Ireland, biking across Scotland from St. Andrews to the island of Iona, and hiking the Sentier Notre-Dame Kapatakan along the Saguenay River in Québec. In 2023, I returned to Ireland to complete my pilgrim journeys to achieve my Teastas Oilithreachta (pilgrim certificate) from Ballintubber Abbey, County Mayo.

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(Climbing the Pilgrim Path on Mount Brandon, County Kerry, Ireland, 2018)

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