On Dec. 1, Jesuit Father Michael Magree, an assistant theology professor at Boston College, spoke to 45 priests about Christmas in the early Church during the annual Priests’ Advent Day of Recollection at St. Paul Inside the Walls in Madison, N.J.
Participating priests, active and retired, gathered for the day of recollection. Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney greeted the priests and welcomed Father Magree. The event was preceded by a luncheon and followed by a holy hour with evening prayer.
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Father David Monteleone, pastor of St. Philip the Apostle Parish in Clifton, N.J.; Father Christopher Barkhausen, pastor of St. Francis de Sales Parish in the McAfee neighborhood of Vernon, N.J.; and Father Greg Golba, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in the Haskell neighborhood of Wanaque, N.J., coordinated the event.
“The Priests’ Advent Day of Recollection was a time for fraternity and prayer. We priests were able to step away from our busy schedules to more prayerfully enter into the season of Advent,” Father Monteleone said.
