Rev. Jim McCormack, MIC, STL

Bio

Fr. Jim received his Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Yale University and his Master’s at Stanford University. Following graduate school, he worked for seven years as an electrical engineer for Hewlett-Packard in Colorado. It was during graduate school when Fr. Jim had his first sense of a calling to the priesthood, “but I did my best to ignore it,” he says with a smile. After he broke up with his fiancée, he decided to take God’s call more seriously.

Fr. Jim was given the grace to follow the Lord’s call during a pilgrimage to Italy in 2002. “Due to Mary’s help, I came away from that pilgrimage with a deep sense of peace about becoming a priest,” he says. In 2005, he joined the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception because of their devotion to Our Blessed Mother, their active apostolic spirit, and their desire to spread devotion to Jesus, the Divine Mercy.

Father Jim professed his perpetual vows as a Marian on Aug. 16, 2009. Following his priestly ordination on July 10, 2010, he was sent to Rome where in 2013 he earned his Licentiate degree in the Theology of the Consecrated Life. Since then, he served as Novice Master for the American Province for 10 years and Parochial Vicar at St. Patrick’s Parish in Yorkville, IL for nearly two years, before being assigned to St. Patrick’s Seminary as the Rector of the Marian Seminarians and as a spiritual director.