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Obituary: Father Mark Carr former Abington pastor


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At the time of his retirement as pastor of St. Nicholas Parish in Abington in 1997, Father Mark Carr reflected that he remembered the first “documentation” of his desire to be a priest was in a composition he wrote at the Henry Adams School in Boston in fourth grade!
A Bostonian through and through and the son of two immigrants from Ireland, Mark and Mary (McNamara) Carr, Mark F. Carr was born in Boston and educated in its public schools. The names of the schools echo the proud history of the city itself: Henry Adams, Francis Parkman and Boston Latin. ....

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Obituary: Father Maurice J. O'Connor, retired Stoughton pastor


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Father Maurice J. O Connor, who retired from his leadership of Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in Stoughton on Nov. 16, 2003, died at Marian Manor in Taunton on Dec. 15, 2020.
Born in Boston on Oct. 8, 1928, Father O Connor was raised in Cambridge s St. John the Evangelist Parish. His parents were the late Maurice and Mary (Mitchell) O Connor. He attended local schools before entering St. John Seminary at Brighton.
Archbishop Richard J. Cushing ordained him to the priesthood on Sept. 29, 1953, a member of the second class of that year. The plethora of candidates for the priesthood in the archdiocese meant that they had to make space in the theology house for the rapidly increasing number of seminarians; this even so with the building of a minor seminary at Jamaica Plain. Many will recall that the first two years of the college division of the seminary were housed for two ....

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