Dear Friend,

Catching a Glimpse - of God

Reflection by Msgr. James Turro, S.T.L, S.S.L., Ph.D., Faculty Emeritus ICSST

Mary sits and contemplates Jesus

and she is praised for doing so.

We, too, are expected to contemplate God—

        •   to consider the world in all

            its intricate parts,

            its utterly regular and predictable functions;

        •   to look on its morning fresh beauty,

            the breathtaking majesty

            of a redwood, for instance;

        •   to see in all this

            the power and greatness of the Creator.

It is said that we cannot see God,

face-to-face.

And that is true.

But we can catch a glimpse

of the hem of God's garment, so to speak,

in the splendor and magnitude

of God's creation.

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Rev. Msgr. James Turro, S.T.L., S.S.L., Ph.D., Faculty Emeritus ICSST from the Archdiocese of Newark. 

On May 22, 1948, Father James Turro was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Thomas J. Walsh in St. Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral in Newark, as Sacred Heart Cathedral was still in the process of being completed.

Msgr. Turro started teaching at the Immaculate Conception Seminary in 1959 and he remained on staff for 60 years.

As a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark, Monsignor Turro has served as retreat master, providing spiritual guidance to thousands of priests, religious men and women, and laity.  He also has led numerous pilgrimages to the Holy Land, Greece, and Turkey. As a shepherd of the Church, he began serving the parishioners of Holy Trinity Church in Hackensack in 1959. Subsequently, his assignment as a weekend assistant at Our Lady of Mercy in Park Ridge, a parish family with whom he has continued to celebrate Mass for more than 50 years. In service to his parish and the Seminary, Monsignor Turro has been renowned for concise homilies that skillfully motivate deep meditation on the message of God’s Word.