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. Charles McClean, SSC…
is assistant priest at Mt. Calvary. Born in Baltimore in 1942, Father McClean is the son of the late Charles Louis and Anna Eleanor McClean. He was graduated from the Baltimore City College High School in 1959.
He holds the Bachelor of Arts degree from Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Indiana; the Master of Divinity and the Master of Sacred Theology degree from Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis, Missouri; the Master of Science in Information Studies degree from Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at the General Theological Seminary in New York City in its Anglican Studies program.
Father McClean was for fourteen years a pastor in The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. Ordained to the priesthood at Saint Paul's Church, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, in 1987, he served as curate at that parish. He has also served as assistant priest at Saint John's Church, Norristown, Pennsylvania and as assistant to the rector at the Church of the Advent, Boston. He served as rector of Saint James's Church, Westernport, Maryland and of Saint Mary's Church, Staten Island, New York.
Father McClean is a priest of the Society of the Holy Cross (SSC) and a priest associate of the All Saints Sisters of the Poor, at Catonsville, Maryland. He is a member of the Council of the Guild of All Souls. He is also a member of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, the Society of Mary, and the Society of King Charles the Martyr.
His interests include classical music, history (especially European history), and biography. He is a lover of cats.
Father McClean has served as an assistant priest at Mount Calvary since August 2002.
