Our First USA Parish of St. Charles, loses its beloved Pastor

and our Family Groups lose a friend.

Father Steve Concannon has served 45 years as a priest and recently retired after 12 years as Pastor of the vibrant parish of St. Charles in Brunswick Maine. Fr. Steve was an extraordinary preacher, mover & shaker and friend to all. Many thought that he would be the next Bishop of the Portland Maine Diocese.

With our Family Groups, it was the former Pastor of St. Charles, Fr. Don Jacques, who initiated and nurtured our PFGM in Maine. You could say that Fr. Steve was the icing on the cake. When ever I traveled and worked in his parish, he would welcome us with open arms.

At his packed farewell Mass, he talked about the flourishing Family Groups of the parish being a “key part of the vitality and friendliness of the parish”. With his vast Pastoral experience, this was a very precious and affirming judgment of the grass roots work and Faith of so many of our American brothers and sisters who have shared their lives together, loving one another, as Christ would have us.

Our Passionist Family Group Movement salutes Fr. Steve Concannon, thanks him for all his generosity and support and wishes him every blessing and joy in his ‘retirement’. We believe that retirement will be full of reaching out to people and continuing his ministry as the good shepherd, following the Master.

Peter McGrath cp

Founder PFGM