St. Peter Prince of the Apostles Catholic Church
     

 Meet our Pastor

Monsignor Thomas Murphy celebrated his 40th Anniversary
of his Ordination to the Priesthood on June 11, 2006 with a
Mass of Thanksgiving at 11 Am.  A reception honoring Fr Murphy
was held in the Parish Hall following Mass. 

He was born in Rock Chapel County Cork in Ireland.  He was ordained in the
Cathedral of Carlow on June 11, 1966 and has been in the United States since
his ordination.  He became an assistant at St Thomas More in 1970 and was
then appointed to the Archdiocesan Personnel Board in 1972.  He was appointed to found St. Marks the Evangelist in 1976, dedicating the church building in December  of 1979, with the number of families growing from 400 to 600 during that time.

He was named chairman of the Northeast Urban Deanery, overseeing 15 parishes in 1979, in addition to his own parish work. 

In 1987 ,Msgr. Murphy coordinated a fund raising drive that netted $85,000 toward rebuilding a girls school in San Salvador after the areas was hit by an earthquake in October 1986.

As the incoming Pastor, Monsignor Murphy said" I would hope St Peter's will be known as a home for people, and I mean that in all the ways we think of home--a comforting place, a meeting place, a healing place." He continued "People should have a sense of well-received hospitality , and I think we can accomplish that together.  That needs to come about with church participation."

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