.The. Rev Philip C. Cleary.
Photo thanks to NPH Mu00e9xico.The Rev. Philip C. Cleary, resigned priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago as well as former associate priest of Our Girl of Good Advice Parish on Hermitage Method in Chicago’s McKinley Playground neighborhood, died Sunday, Nov.
3, 2024, at the age of 71, in Mexico. Cleary was born upon Sept. 5, 1953, in Chicago.
He went to Quigley Preparatory Academy in Chicago, Niles University of Loyola University and the Educational Institution of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Academy in Mundelein. Cleary was blessed to the priesthood on May 9, 1979, through Cardinal John Cody, and he commemorated his very first solemn Mass on May thirteen of the exact same year at St.
Jerome Parish in Chicago. He after that worked as associate priest at St. Boniface Parish on Noble Road in Chicago and Our Lady of Excellent Advice Parish.From 1982 to 1984, Cleary acted as president of the Affiliation of Chicago Priests and was selected to the National Alliance of Priests’ Councils Exec Panel in 1983.Nuestros Pequeu00f1os Hermanos.It was during this time around that Cleary learnt more about Rev.
William B. Wasson as well as his purpose at Nuestros Pequeu00f1os Hermanos (NPH), a non-profit association that aims at enhancing the lives of orphaned and deserted kids in Latin United States as well as the Caribbean. Cleary’s initial plan was to offer services for one summer season at NPH’s major orphanage in Mexico but “he rapidly experienced contacted us to remain past his three-month phrase, embarking on what came to be a long-lasting commitment to the little ones of NPH,” the NPH site said.
Cleary served for several years as National Supervisor of NPH Mexico before becoming executive supervisor of NPH International. He stayed at NPH’s principal home in Miacatlu00e1n, Morelos, Mexico, where he devoted his lifestyle to the association’s purpose as well as the children. He after that came to be chaplain for the Diocese of Cuernavaca in Mexico as well as retired in 2023.Life With Great Devotion.Diocesan Ronald Hicks, head of the Diocese of Joliet and one of Cleary’s closest buddies, bears in mind Cleary as a mentor, good example and friend that “resided life with wonderful dedication.” Before entering the University of St.
Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, Hicks devoted a year in Mexico offering for some of NPH’s orphanages in Mexico.” He (Cleary) not just given spiritual guidance yet likewise an actual devotion to the objective of improving the youngsters’s lifestyles,” Hicks mentioned. Unconditional Love as well as Company.” Due to watching his priesthood and also exactly how he resided it, he encouraged me to enter into the priesthood myself.” Hicks carried on that “over times, plenty of youngsters have actually profited from his love as well as dedication he adhered to concepts of outright affection and solution, making sure that the kids increased in the home were certainly not only recipients yet found out just how to repay.”.Rev. Gregory Sakowicz, remembered his good friend as well as schoolmate as a terrific clergyman with a “missionary heart that was actually extremely well ased if and also respected through his classmates.” Sakowicz additionally recalled that “Philip never searched for the limelight as well as always attempted to carry others in to the limelight.”.
Provider on November 21.An additional friend and also friend was actually Rev. Stanley Rataj. “He was one of the best reputable participants of our lesson and also an accurate innovator,” Rataj pointed out.
He recalled Cleary’s enthusiasm for life and his charisma pointing out “he was actually a fast friend to all and also lived an incredibly faithful as well as terrific lifestyle.”.All lasts rites will happen at St. Zachary Parish, 567 W. Algonquin Roadway in Des Plaines.
Visiting hrs will certainly be actually Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, from 10 to 11 a.m. The funeral Mass will definitely adhere to at 11 a.m.
as well as is going to be celebrated by Diocesan Hicks. A personal interment will definitely happen at All Saints Catholic Burial Ground in Des Plaines.