About the Authors
Rev. Mark Connolly was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1970 he started THE SUNDAY MASS on television in the New York Area. In 1993, Fr. Connolly was named the Director of Radio and Television in the Diocese of Bridgeport. He is well known in the field of Radio and Television. Presently, Father is the host of an ABC syndicated show called THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK which is aired every Sunday morning throughout the country.
Rev. Raymond K. Petrucci was ordained for the Diocese of Bridgeport in 1973. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from St. Francis College in Loretto, Pennsylvania, a Master of Divinity from St. Mary Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland, and a Doctor of Ministry from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley in California.
Joseph Marcello was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and raised in nearby Huntington and Monroe. He is an alumnus of St. Joseph High School and Fairfield University. He graduated from Fairfield in 1998 with a degree in English and Communication. He frequently serves as a guest organist at many parishes in the Diocese of Bridgeport and is a first year pre-theology student at the St. John Fisher Seminary Residence in Stamford.
Rev. Nicholas Cirillo, a native of Trumbull, Connecticut, is a graduate of Fairfield University and the Gregorian University in Rome. He serves as Parochial Vicar at St. Lawrence Parish in Huntington, Connecticut.