This is the third installment in our series featuring our guest celebrants, to help you learn a little bit about them and put faces with names!
Fr. Arthur MacKay
Fr. MacKay is no stranger to the St. John-St. Paul Collaborative, having served as the Parochial Vicar at St. Paul from 2012-2015, and then at the newly-formed Collaborative until 2017, but we wanted to “re-introduce” him to everyone!
A son of the late Charles and Marjorie (Sullivan) MacKay, Fr. Arthur is presently a Priest Hospital Chaplain at Lahey Hospital and Framingham Union MetroWest Hospital. Fr. MacKay grew up in Newton with a sister, and received degrees from Boston College, The New England College of Optometry, and Pope John XXIII National Seminary. He was ordained in 2008 as a late vocation priest of the Archdiocese of Boston. Fr. MacKay was an Optometrist specializing in Abnormalities of the Cornea and Low Vision, and is a Diplomate in Low Vision with the American Academy of Optometry. He was Chief of Optometry at The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, NY and was an Optometrist at Newton Wellesley Hospital to Ralph H. Hinckley, M.D. Before coming to Wellesley, Fr. MacKay served at St. Catherine Parish in Norwood, St. Charles Parish in Woburn, and Assumption Parish in Marshfield.
His sister told him that he “saw the light” in becoming a priest!
Fr. John Baldovin, S.J.
Fr. Baldovin is Professor of Historical and Liturgical Theology at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. He is a priest of the New York Province of the Society of Jesus. He received his BA from the College of the Holy Cross, an MDiv from Weston School of Theology, an MA, MPhil and PhD from Yale University.
Fr. Baldovin has taught at Fordham University, the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, and, since 1999 at Weston and now BC’s STM. He has also been visiting professor at The University of Notre Dame and St. John Vianney National Seminary in Pretoria, South Africa. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Fairfield University. His fields of expertise are the history and theology of the liturgy, sacramental theology and the theology of ministry ordained and lay.
Fr. Baldovin has a number of presentations with Now You Know Media, the latest of which, The History of the Mass, has recently been released as a DVD. His latest books are Living Bread, Saving Cup: Understanding the Mass (2003), Reforming the Liturgy: A Response to the Critics (2008) and Catholic Sacraments, edited with David Turnbloom (2015).
If you missed our profiles of Fr. Richard Clifford, S.J., Fr. Joseph Hennessey, and Fr. Brett O’Neil, S.J., you can find them here: Getting to Know Our Guest Celebrants
If you missed our profiles of Fr. Borja Miró Madariaga, S.J., Fr. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., and Fr. Michael Steele, you can find them here: Getting to Know Our Celebrants, Part II.