I had one class with him. He was light as a feather but solidly grounded ... if push came to shove.
I remember some students being frustrated with his levity ... they thought a priest should be more serious. Ha!
To the Georgian Court Community,
As you may know, Father Norman Demeck died on Thursday, May 22. Services were held in Scranton on Tuesday, May 27.
There will be a Memorial Mass here on campus in the Dorothy Marron University Chapel on Monday, June 16, at 5 p.m.
All are encouraged to come and join in prayer and thanksgiving for the life of Father Norman and his years of service at Georgian Court.
Please continue to remember Father Norman's family and his Passionist Community in prayer.
The obituary from the Scranton Times follows for those who missed it:
The Rev. Norman Demeck, C.P., died Thursday in Mercy Hospital.
Born Dec. 21, 1925, in Scranton, son of the late William and Gertrude King Demeck, he took his Passionist Profession of Vows on Aug. 15, 1946, and was ordained to the Passionist Priesthood on Feb. 28, 1952. Educated in St. Paul's School, he was a graduate of St. Paul's High School and a 1952 graduate of St. Michael's Passionist College, Union City, N.J., with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. He received a master's degree in theology at St. Michael's Passionist College in 1953; Licentiate and Sacred Theology from Angelicum University in Rome in 1955; and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from Angelicum University in 1956.
Father Norman's ministries included theology professor at St. Michael's Passionist College from 1956 to 1973; theology professor at St. John's University from 1970 to 1973; theology professor in Georgian Court College and University from 1973 to 2006, where he was chairman of the Department of Theology for many years. His courses were widely popular throughout his teaching career. He was a member of the College Theology Society, Catholic Theological Society of America, the Civil Air Patrol in New Jersey and the New Jersey Consortium for Graduate Theology School. He received numerous citations and awards from the New Jersey Civil Air Patrol and Georgian Court College and University.
Surviving are a sister, Jean McGrath, Scranton; a brother, John Demeck, Scranton; a sister-in-law, Susan Demeck; and nieces and nephews who will miss him deeply.
He was also preceded in death by three brothers, Paul, Jerome and William; and three sisters, Dorothy Gavin and Mary and Carolyn Demeck.
1 comment:
I, too, am a GCU grad and was so saddened to learn of Fr. Norman's passing! I took 3 classes with Father; he was without equal. As a priest, as a friend. He knew our family well, and had been to our house for my son's high school graduation years before. We loved his homilies at St. Mary of the Lake every Sunday, and his humor and smiles everywhere he went.
May he now go with God.
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