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J-Glenn Murray

Father J–Glenn Murray, S.J. has been recently assigned as a parochial vicar at Saint Aloysius Gonzaga Church, a Jesuit parish in the shadow of our nation’s Capitol, in the Archdiocese of Washington, DC. He has been a member of the Maryland Province of Jesuits for the last 39 years; having been ordained to priestly ministry twenty-eight years ago in June 1979.
Father Murray received his Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Communications from Saint Louis University in 1970, and a Master’s Degree in Divinity with a concentration in Liturgy from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California in 1983. He has pursued studies in Preaching at the Aquinas Institute in Saint Louis (1992-1993) and recently completed a Doctor of Ministry degree with a concentration in Liturgy at the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago (May 2006). He was an Associate Pastor at Holy Cross Church in Durham, NC while a campus minister at Duke University. He taught and was Vice-Principal at Saint Frances Academy, the oldest Black Catholic High School in the Western Hemisphere, from 1981 to 1988. He was the principal drafter of the United States Bishops’ document, Plenty Good Room: the Spirit and Truth of African American Catholic Worship. Since that publication, the majority of his articles have appeared in the bi-monthly liturgical newsletter, Plenty Good Room C a former periodical of Liturgy Training Publications of Chicago.
From 1989 until June of 2007, Father Murray worked for the Diocese of Cleveland in the Office of Pastoral Liturgy, serving as its director from 1995. He has taught at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley as well as Saint Mary’s Seminary and University in Cleveland, Ohio. He lectures widely in the areas of Liturgy and Culture, as well as conducting parish missions and priests’ retreats. His memberships include the North American Academy of Liturgy, The Catholic Association of Liturgy and the newly constituted Jungmann Society, an international organization of Jesuits working in the liturgy and allied fields.
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