This is Father Jim who has had a really long career as a priest in the the Diocese of Rockville Center. He was ordained 50 years ago, and has been pastor of a number of churches on Long Island. He speaks Spanish, French, and Italian, and has visited the countries of El Salvador, Haiti, Chile and Argentina, where a number of his parishioners were from. When he retired from being a full-time pastor, he came to live at St. Brigids and said masses during the week and on the weekends, which is how we came to know him. Now that he is older, he is going to live at a retirement home for priests. So today was his last mass for a while here, and all the priests from the church celebrated mass with him, and then blessed him at the end of the mass. We will miss him.
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