THE FUNERAL FOR REVEREND FATHER COLIN MACDONALD.............

Reverend Father Colin MacDonald, a priest of the Diocese of Sacramento for more than thirty one years has died at age 75.  Father MacDonald, the Pastor-Emeritus of St. Clare's Parish, in West Roseville, where he oversaw the construction of the 1,100 seat Spanish Mission style Church edifice, was a member of the De LaSallian Christian Brothers religious order for twenty two years before attending St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California and then being ordained a Priest of the Diocese of Sacramento, on November 7, 1981, along with Reverend Father Roy Doner, currently the Pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Oroville.  Their ordinations were the first I ever attended, ten months before entering the seminary myself.  Father served for his first five years as a priest as Associate Pastor of St. Rose's Parish in South Sacramento, where I came to know him and worked with him as a parishioner and lay minister.  in 1987, Fr. MacDonald was transferred to St. Rose Parish in Roseville, where he ministered as Parochial Vicar, before being appointed Pastor of All Hallows Parish in the Tahoe Park area of Sacramento from 1990-1994, not far from Christian Brothers High School, were he had servedv as a teacher and Vice President.  Becoming Administrator, then the Pastor of St. Clare's Parish in 1995, he ministered there until retiring from active ministry in 2007.  His Funeral Mass will be concelebrated this morning at 11 a.m. in St. Clare's Catholic Church, 1951 Junction Blvd. off Baseline Road, in West Roseville, with Bishop Jaime Soto, presiding.  I will join my brother priests and the People of God in commemorating his life and ministry.  God Grant Him Peace and Light in the Kingdom of Eternal Life.............Fr.  Troy