The Rev. Philip J. Cascia, D. Min. Ph.D., was born on Dec. 27, 1951, in Springfield, Mass., a son of the late Charles and Rose (Montagna) Cascia. He began his religious training at St. Adalbert Preparatory School in Enfield from 1957 to 1965. He graduated from St. Thomas Seminary in 1971 and also attended Our Lady of the Angels in 1971. He attended Mount St. Mary Seminary in Emmitsburg in 1972 and received his degree in theology at Mount St. Mary Seminary in 1976. He served as a prefect at St. Thomas Seminary from 1976 to 1977 and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Hartford on May 28,1977, at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford with the Most Rev. John F. Whealon, S.T.L. officiating.
He began his career as an assistant at St. Francis Xavier Church in Waterbury in 1977, and was transferred to St. Anthony's Church in Prospect where he served as an assistant from 1978 until 1985. He was chaplain of Sacred Heart High School from 1985 to 1989. On Aug. 1,1989, Rev. Cascia was named as pastor of St. Anthony's Church in Prospect serving there until July 31, 2005. His last assignment was as administrator of Our Lady of Mercy Church in Plainville where he served from July 31, 2005, until taking a medical leave of absence in August of 2006.
In 1978 he founded the St. Vincent DePaul Society in Waterbury, an organization dedicated to eliminating the root causes of homelessness in the Greater Waterbury Area. The society has a soup kitchen, thrift store, the largest homeless shelter in the state and also has mental health centers in the East and North End of Waterbury.
While chaplain at Sacred Heart High School Rev. Cascia coached wrestling. He arranged to take wrestlers to the Soviet Union. Due to this trip, the late President Ronald Reagan commissioned Rev. Cascia to establish a program to develop cultural exchanges between sports teams in the U.S. and other countries around the world. This program is the Intersports USA. On Feb. 1, 2000, Congress nominated Rev. Cascia for the Nobel Peace Prize for all his work through Intersports USA.
He was also instrumental in making possible the trip by Pope John Paul II to Cuba in 1998. It was due to his previous contacts with the Cuban government through arranging the wrestling teams he coached through Intersport USA. He led the Connecticut delegation to Cuba for this visit of Pope John Paul II.
Rev. Cascia is survived by a brother, Michael P. Cascia of Enfield; his nieces and nephew, Jona and Jim Tarnowicz of Enfield, Trinidad, Christopher Neil of Tampa, Fla., Michael Cascia of New York City, and Philip of Brooklyn, N.Y.: and also great-nieces and great-nephews, Michaela Tarnowicz, Danielle Tarnowicz, Katherine Neil and Christopher Neil.
A funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 20, at Our Lady Mercy Church, 19 South Canal St., Plainville. A reception will follow at Our Lady of Mercy Parish Hall. Graveside prayers 4 p.m. at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Enfield. Friends may call at the church on Friday, Jan. 19, from 2 to 7 p.m. A parish Mass will be celebrated at 7 p.m. Friday evening.
Memorial contributions may be made to: St. Vincent DePaul Society, P.O. Box 1612, Waterbury 06721; Our Lady of Mercy Parish, 19 South Canal St., Plainville, 06062; or St. Francis/Mt. Sinai Regional Cancer Center, c/o Peter Tutschka MD., 114 Woodland St., Hartford 06105; or Intersport USA, P.O. Box 2005, Waterbury 06722.
The Buckmiller Brothers Funeral Home, 26 Waterbury Road, Route 69, Prospect, are in charge of the arrangements.
Source: Republican-American, 17 Jan 2007
He began his career as an assistant at St. Francis Xavier Church in Waterbury in 1977, and was transferred to St. Anthony's Church in Prospect where he served as an assistant from 1978 until 1985. He was chaplain of Sacred Heart High School from 1985 to 1989. On Aug. 1,1989, Rev. Cascia was named as pastor of St. Anthony's Church in Prospect serving there until July 31, 2005. His last assignment was as administrator of Our Lady of Mercy Church in Plainville where he served from July 31, 2005, until taking a medical leave of absence in August of 2006.
In 1978 he founded the St. Vincent DePaul Society in Waterbury, an organization dedicated to eliminating the root causes of homelessness in the Greater Waterbury Area. The society has a soup kitchen, thrift store, the largest homeless shelter in the state and also has mental health centers in the East and North End of Waterbury.
While chaplain at Sacred Heart High School Rev. Cascia coached wrestling. He arranged to take wrestlers to the Soviet Union. Due to this trip, the late President Ronald Reagan commissioned Rev. Cascia to establish a program to develop cultural exchanges between sports teams in the U.S. and other countries around the world. This program is the Intersports USA. On Feb. 1, 2000, Congress nominated Rev. Cascia for the Nobel Peace Prize for all his work through Intersports USA.
He was also instrumental in making possible the trip by Pope John Paul II to Cuba in 1998. It was due to his previous contacts with the Cuban government through arranging the wrestling teams he coached through Intersport USA. He led the Connecticut delegation to Cuba for this visit of Pope John Paul II.
Rev. Cascia is survived by a brother, Michael P. Cascia of Enfield; his nieces and nephew, Jona and Jim Tarnowicz of Enfield, Trinidad, Christopher Neil of Tampa, Fla., Michael Cascia of New York City, and Philip of Brooklyn, N.Y.: and also great-nieces and great-nephews, Michaela Tarnowicz, Danielle Tarnowicz, Katherine Neil and Christopher Neil.
A funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 20, at Our Lady Mercy Church, 19 South Canal St., Plainville. A reception will follow at Our Lady of Mercy Parish Hall. Graveside prayers 4 p.m. at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Enfield. Friends may call at the church on Friday, Jan. 19, from 2 to 7 p.m. A parish Mass will be celebrated at 7 p.m. Friday evening.
Memorial contributions may be made to: St. Vincent DePaul Society, P.O. Box 1612, Waterbury 06721; Our Lady of Mercy Parish, 19 South Canal St., Plainville, 06062; or St. Francis/Mt. Sinai Regional Cancer Center, c/o Peter Tutschka MD., 114 Woodland St., Hartford 06105; or Intersport USA, P.O. Box 2005, Waterbury 06722.
The Buckmiller Brothers Funeral Home, 26 Waterbury Road, Route 69, Prospect, are in charge of the arrangements.
Source: Republican-American, 17 Jan 2007
The Rev. Philip J. Cascia, D. Min. Ph.D., was born on Dec. 27, 1951, in Springfield, Mass., a son of the late Charles and Rose (Montagna) Cascia. He began his religious training at St. Adalbert Preparatory School in Enfield from 1957 to 1965. He graduated from St. Thomas Seminary in 1971 and also attended Our Lady of the Angels in 1971. He attended Mount St. Mary Seminary in Emmitsburg in 1972 and received his degree in theology at Mount St. Mary Seminary in 1976. He served as a prefect at St. Thomas Seminary from 1976 to 1977 and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Hartford on May 28,1977, at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford with the Most Rev. John F. Whealon, S.T.L. officiating.
He began his career as an assistant at St. Francis Xavier Church in Waterbury in 1977, and was transferred to St. Anthony's Church in Prospect where he served as an assistant from 1978 until 1985. He was chaplain of Sacred Heart High School from 1985 to 1989. On Aug. 1,1989, Rev. Cascia was named as pastor of St. Anthony's Church in Prospect serving there until July 31, 2005. His last assignment was as administrator of Our Lady of Mercy Church in Plainville where he served from July 31, 2005, until taking a medical leave of absence in August of 2006.
In 1978 he founded the St. Vincent DePaul Society in Waterbury, an organization dedicated to eliminating the root causes of homelessness in the Greater Waterbury Area. The society has a soup kitchen, thrift store, the largest homeless shelter in the state and also has mental health centers in the East and North End of Waterbury.
While chaplain at Sacred Heart High School Rev. Cascia coached wrestling. He arranged to take wrestlers to the Soviet Union. Due to this trip, the late President Ronald Reagan commissioned Rev. Cascia to establish a program to develop cultural exchanges between sports teams in the U.S. and other countries around the world. This program is the Intersports USA. On Feb. 1, 2000, Congress nominated Rev. Cascia for the Nobel Peace Prize for all his work through Intersports USA.
He was also instrumental in making possible the trip by Pope John Paul II to Cuba in 1998. It was due to his previous contacts with the Cuban government through arranging the wrestling teams he coached through Intersport USA. He led the Connecticut delegation to Cuba for this visit of Pope John Paul II.
Rev. Cascia is survived by a brother, Michael P. Cascia of Enfield; his nieces and nephew, Jona and Jim Tarnowicz of Enfield, Trinidad, Christopher Neil of Tampa, Fla., Michael Cascia of New York City, and Philip of Brooklyn, N.Y.: and also great-nieces and great-nephews, Michaela Tarnowicz, Danielle Tarnowicz, Katherine Neil and Christopher Neil.
A funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 20, at Our Lady Mercy Church, 19 South Canal St., Plainville. A reception will follow at Our Lady of Mercy Parish Hall. Graveside prayers 4 p.m. at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Enfield. Friends may call at the church on Friday, Jan. 19, from 2 to 7 p.m. A parish Mass will be celebrated at 7 p.m. Friday evening.
Memorial contributions may be made to: St. Vincent DePaul Society, P.O. Box 1612, Waterbury 06721; Our Lady of Mercy Parish, 19 South Canal St., Plainville, 06062; or St. Francis/Mt. Sinai Regional Cancer Center, c/o Peter Tutschka MD., 114 Woodland St., Hartford 06105; or Intersport USA, P.O. Box 2005, Waterbury 06722.
The Buckmiller Brothers Funeral Home, 26 Waterbury Road, Route 69, Prospect, are in charge of the arrangements.
Source: Republican-American, 17 Jan 2007
He began his career as an assistant at St. Francis Xavier Church in Waterbury in 1977, and was transferred to St. Anthony's Church in Prospect where he served as an assistant from 1978 until 1985. He was chaplain of Sacred Heart High School from 1985 to 1989. On Aug. 1,1989, Rev. Cascia was named as pastor of St. Anthony's Church in Prospect serving there until July 31, 2005. His last assignment was as administrator of Our Lady of Mercy Church in Plainville where he served from July 31, 2005, until taking a medical leave of absence in August of 2006.
In 1978 he founded the St. Vincent DePaul Society in Waterbury, an organization dedicated to eliminating the root causes of homelessness in the Greater Waterbury Area. The society has a soup kitchen, thrift store, the largest homeless shelter in the state and also has mental health centers in the East and North End of Waterbury.
While chaplain at Sacred Heart High School Rev. Cascia coached wrestling. He arranged to take wrestlers to the Soviet Union. Due to this trip, the late President Ronald Reagan commissioned Rev. Cascia to establish a program to develop cultural exchanges between sports teams in the U.S. and other countries around the world. This program is the Intersports USA. On Feb. 1, 2000, Congress nominated Rev. Cascia for the Nobel Peace Prize for all his work through Intersports USA.
He was also instrumental in making possible the trip by Pope John Paul II to Cuba in 1998. It was due to his previous contacts with the Cuban government through arranging the wrestling teams he coached through Intersport USA. He led the Connecticut delegation to Cuba for this visit of Pope John Paul II.
Rev. Cascia is survived by a brother, Michael P. Cascia of Enfield; his nieces and nephew, Jona and Jim Tarnowicz of Enfield, Trinidad, Christopher Neil of Tampa, Fla., Michael Cascia of New York City, and Philip of Brooklyn, N.Y.: and also great-nieces and great-nephews, Michaela Tarnowicz, Danielle Tarnowicz, Katherine Neil and Christopher Neil.
A funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 20, at Our Lady Mercy Church, 19 South Canal St., Plainville. A reception will follow at Our Lady of Mercy Parish Hall. Graveside prayers 4 p.m. at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Enfield. Friends may call at the church on Friday, Jan. 19, from 2 to 7 p.m. A parish Mass will be celebrated at 7 p.m. Friday evening.
Memorial contributions may be made to: St. Vincent DePaul Society, P.O. Box 1612, Waterbury 06721; Our Lady of Mercy Parish, 19 South Canal St., Plainville, 06062; or St. Francis/Mt. Sinai Regional Cancer Center, c/o Peter Tutschka MD., 114 Woodland St., Hartford 06105; or Intersport USA, P.O. Box 2005, Waterbury 06722.
The Buckmiller Brothers Funeral Home, 26 Waterbury Road, Route 69, Prospect, are in charge of the arrangements.
Source: Republican-American, 17 Jan 2007
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