Mt. Calvary’s Clergy
The Rev. Jason Catania, SSC…
is the 15th rector of Mount Calvary Church.
A native of New Jersey, Father Catania grew up in West Milford Township and graduated from West Milford High School in 1989. As an undergraduate, he attended the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana where he majored in music history and participated in a number of musical activities, including the Notre Dame Band. He graduated in 1993 and entered the Ph.D program in musicology at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
Although raised a Lutheran, it was at this time that Fr. Catania discovered the Anglican tradition and rapidly became an “extreme” Anglo-Catholic, a label he wears proudly to this day. Having discerned a call to the priesthood, he opted to conclude his musical studies with a thesis on musical settings of the Burial Office from the Book of Common Prayer and was awarded an M.A. in musicology in 1995. Father Catania began theological studies at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. in the fall of 1996. While in Washington, he attended the Church of the Ascension and St. Agnes and became acquainted with the All Saints Sisters of the Poor in Catonsville, Maryland, where he is now a priest associate.
Having become a postulant for Holy Orders in the Diocese of Quincy, Illinois under the Rt. Rev. Keith Ackerman, SSC, Fr. Catania completed his M.Div. at Catholic University before spending a year at Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin beginning in August, 1999. He was ordained deacon by Bishop Ackerman at St. Paul's Cathedral in Peoria on May 27, 2000 and began his curacy at St. George's Church, Schenectady, New York on August 15, the Feast of the Assumption. He was awarded the S.T.M. cum laude by Nashotah House before being ordained to the priesthood on December 21, 2000 at St. George's by the Rt. Rev. Daniel Herzog, Bishop of Albany. In November of 2001, Fr. Catania left Schenectady to become priest-in-charge of St. James Church, Lake Delaware in rural Delhi, New York, where he served until being elected the 15th Rector of Mount Calvary in December 2005. He took up his duties at Mount Calvary in April 2006.
In addition to being a priest associate of the All Saints Sisters of the Poor, Fr. Catania is a priest of the Society of the Holy Cross (SSC) and a member of the Society of Mary, the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, the Guild of All Souls, and the Society of King Charles the Martyr. He is also active in Forward in Faith, North America. Since 2002, Fr. Catania has been a faculty member of St. Michael's Conference Midwest, an Anglo-Catholic summer conference for youth ages 13-21.
The Rev. David Reamsnyder…
came to Mount Calvary in June, 2009, shortly after graduating from Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin. While at Nashotah House, Fr. David served as a Deacon at both St. John Chrysostom in Delafield and Holy Apostles in Pewaukee. Between his middler and senior years, he completed his clinical pastoral education at Three Pillars Retirement Community in Dousman, WI and served one month at St. Mary Magdalene Parish in Lundwood, England. Fr. David received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and religion, cum laude, from Spring Arbor University in Michigan.
Prior to his calling to the priesthood, Fr. David was a sergeant in the United States Army. He served in the 101st Airborne Division at Ft. Campbell, KY and with the 508th Airborne Battalion in Vicenza, Italy. While attending college at SAU, he was mobilized for Operation Iraqi Freedom II, and served with F company, 425th Infantry Regiment, Long Range Surveillance Company, as an assistant team leader.
Father David and his wife Beth have been married seven wonderful years, and are proud parents of their six year old son Charles.
