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How fitting for Msgr. McGrath, chaplain of Ave Maria School of Law, to have gone to his eternal rest on the vigil of Corpus Christi, around the time Mass was being offered for him in the Chapel of the Eucharistic Miracle in Orvieto, Italy.
Jane Adolphe, with degrees in civil law (LLB/BCL) and canon law (JCL/JCD), is a professor of law at Ave Maria School of Law, in Naples, Florida, with an expertise in international human rights law. …
Msgr. Frank McGrath, who for the past eight years more than ably served as chaplain for the Ave Maria School of Law, died June 10 in Naples, Florida. On loan from the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, since 2014, Msgr. McGrath was 78. His Masses were always simple and solemn with special reverence for the Holy Eucharist that always allowed the participant to quietly revel in an atmosphere of divine intimacy.
The day Msgr. McGrath entered eternity, a Mass was offered for him at the Cathedral of Orvieto, Italy, on the vigil of the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, at the request of members of the International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF), who were on an annual retreat, at the time. News about the terminal nature of his condition had reached ICJF members, but the word was that he had some weeks to live. The Mass took place at 9am in Italy and from my understanding, he either passed at that time of the Mass or some hours later, with rosary in hand. ….