Brother Michael Duffy, O.F.M. Conv., dies at 65 December 9, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Conventual Franciscan Brother Michael Thomas Duffy will be offered Dec. 11, at 2 p.m., at the Shrine of St. Anthony in Ellicott City. Brother Michael died Dec. 6. He was 65. Born in Baltimore, Brother Michael graduated from Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore in 1977. He entered the novitiate of the Franciscan Friars Conventual, making his first profession of vows on Aug. 15, 1978. His solemn profession of vows occurred on June 29, 1982. Brother Michael, who held a bachelor’s degree in nursing from American International College in Massachusetts, and a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Lowell in Massachusetts, ministered in a variety of roles in Massachusetts, including working as an assistant professor nursing at the College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee from 1988 to 1997. In 1997, Brother Michael was appointed vocation director of his religious community’s legacy St. Anthony of Padua Province, as well as associate director of candidates in Philadelphia, where he resided through 2002 when the home base of vocation operations moved to Baltimore. At that time, he also became animator of the province’s Franciscan Youth Ministry efforts. Brother Michael helped establish the former Franciscan mission in Above-Rocks, Jamaica, in 2005. After six years in the missions, Brother Michael returned to Massachusetts, residing in Chicopee while teaching nursing at Elms College and pursuing a doctoral degree from Regis University. He also ministered in New York before arriving in 2022 at his religious community’s finance office in Ellicott City, where he served as manager of Province Cemeteries. He also ministered at The Franciscan Center of Baltimore and cooked for the friars of St. Joseph of Cupertino Friary. Visitation hours will be held Dec. 10, 3-7 p.m., at the Shrine of St. Anthony, with a Franciscan wake service at 7 p.m. Read More Obituaries Jesuit Father Vincent de Paul Alagia dies at 99 Sister Sigrid Simlik, former teacher in Baltimore, dies at 97 A silent life behind three popes: Farewell to Angelo Gugel, the iconic papal butler John L. Allen Jr.: A Man for All Seasons, at a Roman Table Crux editor, veteran Vatican journalist John Allen loses battle with cancer Father Zanardini, top missionary anthropologist among Indigenous groups, dies in Paraguay at 83 Copyright © 2024 Catholic Review Media Print
