Why College? was the title of a presentation that Maura Brennan, Director of College Counseling at the Loyola School, gave to a group of LSA (Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service) high school students and their parents during a College Access Workshop at LSA on March 8th. The audience comprised eighteen students, predominantly sophomores and juniors, who are the first generation in their families to apply to college.
This year, the workshop took on a new dimension as Olga, a freshman at College of the Holy Cross and a recent graduate of our College Access Program, shared her experience with those in attendance. Her story served to prove that the college dream is real. Danny, a current member of our College Access Program, also shared his college application experience with those in attendance. Both are incredible ambassadors and embody the community spirit that is involved in assisting LSA families to realize their college dreams.
We are blessed in our partnership with the Loyola School because Maura shares the same passion, and she welcomed the opportunity to give this presentation. Melina Gonzalez, LSA Community Engagement Manager, and Lucia Bravo, LSA Director of Advocacy, were her guides and translators. One of the earlier impactful slides was how the range of college degrees available relates to a college graduate’s expected salary. FAFSA, Pell, HEOP, EOP, SEEK, IEP, Questbridge, Posse, and BigFuture were mentioned as some of the programs and organizations that will now become welcome allies in easing college attendance financial concerns for the families of our future software, biochemical, and electrical engineers and social workers in attendance.
The word ‘families’ is mentioned a lot during the workshop. This is our third year providing this type of presentation to LSA. In the first year, we had the mindset that we were supplementing the sparse and sometimes unhelpful college guidance currently available to these students in school. We were pleasantly surprised in our feedback to discover that we were also providing a tremendous benefit to the parents in attendance, as they were excluded from the college guidance process provided by their children’s high schools. After the presentation, I spoke to some of the families in attendance. I shared their excitement about having their parents in attendance as they embark on the college application process on equal footing.
— Jimmy Coffey, Ignatian Social Justice Ministry member
March 24, 2024 Essay: Jesus Christ Has Redeemed the World
Jesus Christ, by his suffering, death, and resurrection, has redeemed the world. This Holy Week affords us the opportunity to remind ourselves of what it means for us personally and for our world to have been redeemed by Jesus Christ.
The suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ did, indeed, redeem each one of us. We who were once enslaved to sin were set free, redeemed, by the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We participate in this redemption from our slavery to sin through our baptism, in which we are brought to share in the risen life of Christ now so as to have the hope of one day sharing in his risen life forever. Every day, we have to choose to affirm our participation in the risen life of Jesus Christ by conforming ourselves to his life and teaching. As we conform ourselves to his life and teaching, we deepen our participation in his risen life so as to strengthen our hope of one day enjoying the fullness of his risen life forever.
Our daily struggle is to avoid capitulating to our sinful desires. Two sacraments serve as essential weapons in our daily battle to choose for Christ rather than choosing to enslave ourselves to sin: Eucharist and Reconciliation. In every celebration of the Eucharist, we remember the saving sacrifice of Jesus Christ. In our remembrance, we make his saving sacrifice present once more. We then receive his risen body and blood to nourish us in our efforts to conform our lives to his. When we have fallen short in doing so, the sacrament of reconciliation allows us to be restored to right relationship with our God, and with our brothers and sisters in God. In this way, we avoid enslaving ourselves to patterns of sin that alienate us from the life of Christ into which we have been brought by our baptism and in which we are renewed each time we receive his body and blood in the Eucharist. During this Holy Week, we ought to reflect prayerfully on how deeply we appreciate the redemption won for us by Jesus Christ. Do we manifest our appreciation in our daily efforts to conform ourselves to the life of Christ while striving to put aside sinful thoughts, words, and actions?
Jesus also redeemed this world. Our world has been corrupted by human sinfulness. We see the effects of human sinfulness on creation in the adverse impacts of climate change and in the ways that the beauty of creation has been marred by pollution and irresponsible exploitation of natural resources. We see the effects of human sinfulness in the horror of the ongoing wars in Ukraine, in Gaza, in Yemen, in Syria, and in multiple nations in Africa. We see the effects of human sinfulness in the collapse of civil order in Haiti. We see the effects of human sinfulness in the gun violence that our nation seems incapable of controlling and in the ongoing crisis of opioid addiction. Yes, our world has been corrupted by human sinfulness.
Yet, our world has also been redeemed by Jesus Christ. Jesus inaugurated the reign of God in human history and that reign continues to unfold wherever persons speak and act for what is right, good, and just. Remember, justice, love, and truth have prevailed. Jesus was triumphant over sin, hatred, and injustice. We, therefore, have to choose whether we will advance that victory by our commitment to doing the good and working for justice, or slow the advance of that victory by capitulating to falsehood, evil and injustice.
In this Holy Week, pray for the grace to live in faithfulness to the redemption won for you by Jesus Christ. Pray for the grace to be an agent of the continuing redemption of our world through your commitment to living in faithfulness to gospel values.
— Fr. Mark Hallinan, S.J., Associate Pastor
March 17, 2024 Essay: The Blessing of St. Patrick’s DayHappy St. Patrick’s Day to you and yours! In my family, full of names such as Noonan, Shields, Byrne, Donahue, and Dunion, we take this day rather seriously. There is no question of whether we are getting together but rather a nudging amongst family members to be sure we can all attend the day’s celebration.
My Irish roots have been planted in America for a long time. My grandmother’s grandfather came over to America in the 1880s. However, on both sides, the rest of my Irish ancestors landed in America just after the American Revolutionary War. Despite my family’s many generations in the USA, we are still proudly Irish. Interestingly, according to our DNA, my siblings and I are over 75% Irish, clocking in at 90% Celtic. We did not hop into the melting pot.
My Gran is why we still find joy and connection to our Irish heritage. She loved being Irish. She was born just as the days of No Irish Need Apply were ending in America. Her family was not keen on advertising their heritage, but my Granny, Peggy Shields, was Irish all the way.
She passed down the love of her Irish roots to our family. She instilled in us a fondness of wit and somehow the ability to laugh at things others might find a bit macabre. We understood with little overt instruction that it is good to be Irish.
Each St. Patrick’s Day, we gather as a family at Finn McCool’s in Port Washington, NY. We often take over the entire back room with three generations of my family celebrating together. It is a wonderful day free of the pressure of gift-giving at Christmas or the task of the Thanksgiving meal. We eat loads of Irish soda bread, corned beef, and cabbage. The more traditional of us choose shepherd’s pie or salmon. Of course, the day would not be complete without a nice, slow-poured Guinness.
We all don some version of green or shamrock-laden clothing. The hats and headband, well, they are just too much. This regalia may be why we are relegated to the back room. Our celebration is full of laughter, love, and tradition. I’ve been to the St. Patrick’s Day parades in NYC, Chicago, and Dublin. I’d take our St. Patrick’s Day party at Finn McCool over these parades any day.
I leave you with An Irish Blessing for St. Patrick’s Day:
May the Irish Hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessing of St. Patrick behold you.
— Kate Noonan, Director of the Interparish Religious Education Program
ISJ Essay: Our Neighbors on the StreetIn a recent essay for this parish newsletter, Father Hallinan asked, “What can you do this Lent to direct your focus to others in need?” Members of our parish Ignatian Social Justice Ministry, organized by Laura De Boisblanc, answered the call and participated in Don’t Walk By, an annual outreach collaboration with City Relief, New York Common Pantry, Salvation Army, and other groups. Volunteers canvassed Manhattan streets, met dozens of unhoused individuals, and invited them back to the host site, the Salvation Army headquarters on West 14 Street, for a nutritious meal, clothing, medical care, and referrals to city agencies for more services.
So, what insights/experiences/thoughts did St. Ignatius volunteers have? Below are comments from parishioners who participated in the 2024 Don’t Walk By.
JUDY AND KELLY KEENAN: We were inspired by the people we met on the street, like the man who became our best advertisement, encouraging all his friends to talk with us, and the person, though homeless, who told us he had enough to eat and did not want to take a meal from someone in greater need.
LAURA DE BOISBLANC: One man living on the street for 15 years walked ten blocks with us, chatting the entire time. All he wanted from us was to speak with a social worker and get his GED.
DOLORES TROY-QUINN: Seeing a few hundred volunteers, especially young people, reminded me there are so many people living their faith every day.
TERRY QUINN: Matthew 25 came alive on the streets of New York.
ANNE MELANSON: I am always inspired to see how a kind word, a smile, and a show of interest are welcomed by our brothers and sisters on the street.
JIMMY COFFEY: I experienced the grace of God when our team leader, Thomas, spoke with a young man who has lived on the streets for nine years. I saw that grace again when Terry and Priscilla dug deep to find the right words in Spanish to keep up a long conversation with a migrant family.
PETER WOOD: What stood out for me was that despite being stripped of the material benefits that we take for granted, our neighbors living on the streets expressed gratitude…on this special day, we recognized our neighbors as just that. Neighbors.
— Terry Quinn
March 10, 2024 Essay: John F. Kennedy & The Houston SpeechIn September 1960, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, had what he and his advisors called a “Catholic Problem” that never seemed to go away. Despite famous interviews in Life magazine and regular statements in the press outlining an exceedingly solid wall of separation between church and state, Protestant and secular voices regularly issued thinly veiled warnings of the danger of a Catholic in the White House. Their concerns spanned the spectrum from hooded patriots burning crosses in the night to highly respected public intellectuals like Union Theological Seminary’s Reinhold Niebuhr, the most respected Protestant theologian in mid-twentieth century America. Niebuhr’s critique (typically brilliant) was not that Kennedy was a Catholic, but rather that he was a bad Catholic, not really understanding his own faith tradition. The only previous Catholic candidate to receive his party’s nomination for that office—New York State’s “wet” governor, Al Smith—had lost the 1928 presidential election by the largest margin of votes up to that time, and officials of both major parties viewed the chances of any Catholic candidate winning a presidential election as very thin after the 1928 debacle. In the fall of 1960, Kennedy seemed headed for a similar loss at the polls, and the secular press made much of the fears of Protestant voters across the spectrum in allowing a Catholic to function as the “high priest” of America’s civil religion.
It was, therefore, with a heavy heart, that Kennedy accepted the invitation to address the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, 300 evangelical Protestant clergymen strong, gathered in the ballroom of Houston’s Rice Hotel two months before the election. In the course of that address—now generally known as the “Houston Speech”—JFK outlined what many at the time (and since) considered a problematic “privatization” of religious belief for public officials: “I want a president whose religious beliefs are his own private affair,” Kennedy asserted before the assembled ministers, “a president for whom no religious belief or commitment takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution.” Catholic journals at the time voiced surprise and confusion about the Houston Speech. The Jesuit editor of America, in his editorial the week after the address, noted that “Mr. Kennedy can’t really believe that: no religious person can believe that.”
Kennedy’s address is credited with winning him the presidency, but pundits at the time and since (both Catholic and Protestant) have questioned the price of that win: While the Houston Speech did seem to convince enough voters that Kennedy’s Catholicism posed no threat to the separation of church and state to elect him, many scholars—especially Catholic historians—have raised troubling question of whether JFK’s speech made the road to the presidency a much more difficult task for Catholic politicians. Many Catholic bishops at the time, most publicly New York Cardinal Francis Spellman, supported the Republic candidate, Richard Nixon, and Catholic bishops since have tended to be quite critical of Catholic candidates who—like JFK—have erected a wall between their personal faith and their public policy commitments.
— Mark Massa, S.J., Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life & Professor of Theology at Boston College
Join us on Monday, March 11th at 7 PM in Wallace Hall , as Fr. Massa presents John F. Kennedy, The Houston Speech, and Catholic Citizenship, which will explore the impact of John F. Kennedy’s ‘Houston Speech’ on the Catholic presidential candidates who followed him.
First Station of the Cross Reading: Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to feel sorrow and distress. Then he said to them, “My soul is sorrowful even to death. Remain here and keep watch with me.” He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet, not as I will, but as you will.” When he returned to his disciples, he found them asleep. He said to Peter, “So you could not keep watch with me for one hour? Watch and pray that you may not undergo the test. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Matthew 26:36–41)
When Jesus went into the garden of Gethsemane, Matthew’s Gospel tells us that he brought “Peter and the two sons of Zebedee.” It was a family event. Jesus was going to pray to his father for strength to face His greatest challenge yet, and he wanted his earthly family around him. And yet, they couldn’t stay awake. They missed the opportunity to support Jesus in his time of need and left him completely alone.
When my children were young, my husband and I thought bringing them to a Carnegie Hall concert would be fun. In my mind, this was an amazing opportunity for them to witness a beautiful event. Instead, they spent the entire first half of the show complaining about how tired they were. My husband and I tried in vain to get them to engage with the music, listen, and not annoy everyone around us—but we failed. They fell asleep.
Over this season of Lent, our church will offer several opportunities to follow the Stations of the Cross and two specifically sponsored by the Family Ministry. On March 3rd, there will be a Family Ministry Stations of the Cross after the 11 AM Mass. On March 20th, there is an evening opportunity to follow the Stations of the Cross for Migrants, followed by a panel discussion co-sponsored by Ignatian Social Justice and Family Ministry.
But why should families attend these events? Why would we bring our children, when they might be tired, busy, or hungry, to walk the final steps of Jesus? What if they cry, run around, or fall asleep? When Jesus went to His suffering, he wanted His earthly family there with Him, even if they could not understand what was happening. He wanted them in the garden, even when they fell asleep. He wanted them to observe His sufferings, even when they could not and would not intervene. Even in His final sufferings, He wanted those who loved Him close by. And today, He still wants this from us. He wants us to bring our children even when they cry, even when they complain about being tired, even when they fall asleep. We follow a Savior who knows that family is messy and still wants us all together during the fun times and the sober times. This is why I am bringing my children to the Stations of the Cross this year. And why I encourage anyone who is a child of someone to join us.
— Sarah Tintle
March 3, 2024 Essay: Jesus Reveals Who He IsHave you ever noticed or thought about why Jesus has the most protracted dialogue and encounter with the woman at the well, Jacob’s well, than any dialogue with his disciples? Although the “woman at the well” remains nameless, she represents people in any community who are the least respected, the marginalized of society, and they are the people Jesus always reaches out to in his ministry.
Jesus chose her because she was not a Jew and not the usual male persona we generally meet in the Gospel stories. She was an outsider, a Samaritan who was both Gentile and Jew and not highly regarded in her community. As a Samaritan, she believes in foreign or idolatrous gods, along with the Hebrew God.
Think about this, she had to get her water from the well at high noon so she wouldn’t encounter other women from her community because they viewed her as a fallen woman.
Suddenly, a man appears who is sitting next to the well and asks the woman for a drink of water from her bucket. She knows he is not from Samaria because of his features and realizes he must be a Jew. Yet, Jesus disregards who she is and where she is from and asks for water. He has had a long journey and is thirsty and in need of a drink. She cannot understand why this Jewish man asks her, a Samaritan woman, for a drink of water.
At this moment, she meets the Light of the World at noon—the brightest hour of the day. Jesus offers her the Living Water of life, “those who drink of this water will never be thirsty again.” Something stirs up in her heart. As their conversation unfolds, it is a bit unnerving to the Samaritan woman to hear Jesus recount the innermost personal aspects of her life. He knows she was married five times and is now not married but living with a man.
She thinks of him as a prophet, and it is here at Jacob’s well where the Samaritan woman becomes enlightened and discerns who this man might be. She speaks of the Christ, the Anointed One, who will come and proclaim all things to humankind. When Jesus says, “I am he,” the Christ, her eyes are opened, and she realizes he is the One who will lead, teach, and save God’s people. She heads back to her village to proclaim the “Good News” that the Messiah is among them right now. In our world today, if she had an Instagram account, it would have taken seconds to proclaim the news! And she probably would have taken a selfie with Jesus!
Why does Jesus reveal himself first to a woman? A Samaritan? An “outcast?” Jesus intentionally breaks down the religious, racial, and gender barriers in this one encounter with a Samaritan woman. This is our lesson to learn. Throughout the ages, humankind has put up barriers. We cannot bridge the divide if we continue to shut out those who are different from us. It is time to open our eyes and see the possibilities. See the wonder and beauty in diversity. Jesus shows humankind that it takes a variety of people to build any community. We, too, are all related to each other in some way—whether by blood, religion, church, nationality, ancestry, friendship, neighborhood—and we are related to Jesus.
Johannine theology emphasizes that all of us must come into personal contact with Jesus. Jesus himself, shows us in the Samaritan woman how important an encounter is to him. This Lenten season how will you encounter Jesus? How can you bridge the divide and bring the living water of Christ to others? How will Jesus reveal himself to you?
— Jean Santopatre, Pastoral Associate
February 25, 2024 Essay: Journey Into ExileAll I wanted to do was roll over, one more time, in my cozy bed. However, I told my mom I would accompany her to an immigration program on Saturday morning. What was I thinking? I need my sleep. After all, I was out late the night before with my friends at the Fordham Prep vs. Xavier basketball game. All I wanted to do was hit the snooze button for five more minutes. Heck, I would rather study for my SAT. But no, as promised, I walked to Wallace Hall with my mother for Journey Into Exile, an interactive immigration simulation exercise.
Within minutes of my arrival, I was no longer a privileged Upper East Side kid. I had become Mohammad, a 49-year-old refugee from Somalia looking to flee my country as soon as possible. I sat in my assigned camp with eight other simulated refugees, including my mom, who had become a 72-year-old widow from Burundi with no education or money. All eight of us campers had different stories, talents, and economic situations. But we all had one common goal. We needed to leave our country as soon as possible!
We had minutes to decide what three possessions we would bring on our journey. Would it be my phone, a bottle of water, the Bible, a blanket, my passport? Such decisions! All I had were the clothes I was wearing, $3k, oh, and they took my shoes. I would begin my journey barefoot. I only had 30 seconds to organize and leave my home that I would probably never see again. Maybe I wanted to bring a picture of my home or family with me?
Needless to say, my campers did not vote for me to attempt to flee our camp for the US. I ended up as an urban refugee living in Istanbul. I decided to take a dangerous job to make the most money quickly. Unfortunately, I was injured on the job. Could not afford my medical bills. That was the end of my journey.
Of the 42 campers in our simulated program, only one person made it to the US. One person!
Looking back, I am happy I spent my morning in Wallace Hall. I have a better understanding of what migrants around the world are experiencing—quick decision-making, which affects their future. The migrants want safety, security, and a better life. These are all things we never ponder when rolling over and hitting snooze in our cozy beds. I will congratulate the migrants who have made it to our city. They beat the odds! These people are not bad people. These people are fleeing horrific lives. Lives that may have been interrupted by natural disasters, slavery, crime, gangs, famine, or war.
As a junior at Fordham Prep, I am a Man for Others. It is my responsibility to assist my neighbors the best I can. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr said, “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” This Lenten season, consider helping a refugee family in our city. Consider doing a small thing in a great way by donating clothing to the Little Shop of Kindness. Volunteer at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi Migrant Center, helping migrants complete asylum applications. Or attend the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola Stations of the Cross for Migrants on March 20th, followed by a panel discussion about what our parish is doing to welcome migrants through our Migrant Accompaniment Program.
Saint John the Baptist, pray for us. Saint Ignatius Loyola, pray for us.
— Anthony Lucarelli III, Parishioner
February 18, 2024 Essay: Reflections Upon Baptism and Service[This First Sunday of Lent, our Parish celebrates two Rites for 22 adults: the Rite of Sending (for those preparing for baptism) and the Call to Continuing Conversion (for our already baptized candidates). Then at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the afternoon, Cardinal Timothy Dolan welcomes the catechumens and accepts their desire to be baptized into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil. This essay is written by Wayne Weddington, who was received into the Church in 2022.]
I have always felt that God has been with me, an always-present whisper of encouragement and guidance for as long as I can remember. After joining RCIA, God’s presence was confirmed to me through our readings from the Bible, our textbook, and other prayers that we prayed together. I did not always call the Word, God. I am not certain what I called God before this journey, but I knew God was there. Each week’s readings spoke to me, and the voice seemed familiar.
At one point during this RCIA journey to Christ, we were asked to reflect on what we desire from God’s Church. I said: “To affirm that the Lord Jesus Christ has always been, and forever is, my companion and Savior.”
In reading the Gospels, I came to love the tacit emphasis of what I call the “low barrier to entry.” God’s Kingdom is immanently accessible. ANYONE can enter, no matter where one has been or how lost or damaged one’s GPS may be. The principles of love for one another, forgiveness, redemption, humility—and the recognition that we are all imperfect—bring us closer to God. The joy of God’s love is available to anyone who seeks it. God’s love is still there even if one does not seek it (perhaps that “guiding whisper”).
I am particularly grateful and proud to have completed the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults at St. Ignatius Loyola. I felt I had been called. I was deeply grateful to hear about the experiences of others in our group. Finding Christ is such a personal journey; no one person has precisely the same calling or reason for living.
And yet, here we stood together, well-aligned on the path to God. It has been a gift to experience integration through self-examination in and through Christ the Word and the Holy Spirit. At the Easter Vigil, I could not wait to experience the baptismal water on my head. I let it run down my face. I was reluctant to wipe it away. Amen! Hallelujah! I rejoice.
Now today, I am thrilled to be a member of the Ministry of Hospitality and a Lector. It is a responsibility and a joy to ‘touch’ my fellow parishioners on their way to receiving the Eucharist at Mass. Some are burdened, others happy, some simply curious or sad, but we are all there, convened, to experience Christ and to offer our connection with Him and offer prayers for one another. The Hospitality Ministry deepens my connection to the Body of Christ, and the honor of being a Lector enables me to learn the Scripture in a tangible way. It is also a great responsibility and honor to participate in the worship of my fellow parishioners. The parish response to the Readings, in unison, “Thanks be to God,” always moves me.
I think of the Mass as a celebration . . . that Christ is among us and that the Holy Spirit lives in each and every one of us. I look forward to every Mass, the Scripture Readings, the Gospel, and homily as if they are rays of Light. If you see me smiling at Mass, it is because, well, I am happy. As we begin Lent and walk toward the Cross and Resurrection, I truly treasure this journey.
— Wayne P. Weddington III, Hospitality Minister and Lector
February 11, 2024 Essay: Unanswered QuestionsSomeone has said that a person faces four questions as one goes through life.
As an adolescent, one of the main questions is: “Who am I?” As a young adult, the main question becomes: “What am I to do?”. Later, around 40, “Whom am I with?” And finally, around 60, “What does it all mean?”
You could quarrel with the timing, with how old a person usually is when he or she asks these questions, but it would be hard to quarrel with the questions themselves. They are always relevant and provocative.
Because we are about to enter the season of Lent, and because Lent is often a time to be more consciously introspective, it might be a good time for us to look at what’s currently happening in our own lives. A few questions come to mind.
Is my life taking me outside myself, beyond the range of my own needs and concerns? We only start to live when we can get outside ourselves and away from the very stubborn tendency to be self-centered and self-serving. The Christian scriptures keep reminding us that the point of being human is the effort to care passionately about others, not the effort to care passionately about myself.
I see this altruism, oftentimes strangely enough, in people who are dying! The dying are often more concerned for their loved ones who will survive them than they are for themselves and their own pain. I often think of the story told by Fr. Lawrence Jenco, the priest abducted in Lebanon and held as a prisoner for a year and a half. After his release, he talks about visiting his mother as she lay dying in a hospital. When he approached her bed, she tried to speak to him, but he couldn’t hear her.
So, he bent closer to hear her last words of wisdom, words that would surely be filled with great meaning and insight. With great effort, she clearly whispered: “Did you have lunch?” She died within the hour.
I’m always moved by this story, and I tell it frequently. It shows so clearly the complete lack of self-concern in a person who had every reason to be self-concerned at that moment.
This coming Wednesday, we will be entering the season of Lent. For a Christian, this may be an ideal time for some healthy self-questioning.
“Am I becoming a more self-giving person?
A more caring person?
A more forgiving person?
Is life teaching me that I am not as independent as I may think I am, or as I may want to be?
And where is God in all of this?”
May the season of Lent be a rich and rewarding time for all of us.
— Rev. William J. Bergen, S.J., Senior Priest