Father Alan Jurkus new pastor at St. Alphonsus

While I was at Mass last Sunday in Townsend, Tennessee, the rest of my fellow-parishioners (or the one-fourth or so that attend) heard that our new pastor will be Father Alan Jurkus, now at St. Monica Church in Whitefish Bay. He'll have adjust to a change of architecture, at least.

St. Monica's has its Mission Statement & Philosophy on the Archdiocesan web site. (I don't know where St. Al's vision and mission statement are; having worked on them, I'm not going to try to find them, either.) Like St. Al's used to, St. Monica has a quarterly newsletter, the Monicazette. Father Jurkus says an anticipatory good-bye in its Spring 2007 issue [8 pp. pdf].

Father Jurkus's name has popped up in a few posts, but I missed that he concelebrated the funeral Mass of Reggie "The Crusher" Lisowski.

Update: The reader who passed along the above news also notes this Sunday's St. Al's bulletin (p. 4) says,

We are pleased to announce that at the recommendation of the Priests’ Placement Board, Archbishop Dolan has appointed Rev. Alan F. Jurkus as the new Pastor of St. Alphonsus Parish.

We will welcome Fr. Alan the weekend of June 23-24.

However, due to a long-planned summer sabbatical, Father Alan will officially begin his appointment as Pastor on September 1, 2007. (From June 19 until September 1, Fr. Larry Sepich will be the Temporary Administrator.)

We ask God’s blessings for Fr. Alan Jurkus and for the community of Saint Alphonsus.