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Rev Paul D. Burns

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Rev Paul D. Burns

Birth
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
6 Mar 2023 (aged 87)
Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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REV. PAUL D. BURNS, C.S.S.
AGE 87 YEARS

Rev. Paul D. Burns of Framingham, passed away March 6, 2023. Son of the late Alfred and Margaret (McDonnell) Burns. Brother of Donald (wife, Mary) of Billerica and Barbara of Wells, ME, and the late Alfred, Richard, and William Burns, and Beverly Strang. In addition to his Stigmatine community, Father Paul is survived by many nieces, nephews, and numerous friends.

Father Burns was raised in Watertown and entered the Stigmatine Seminary in Waltham and Wellesley in 1949 and graduated in 1956. After that he earned his Bachelor's degree from Catholic University in Washington in 1963 and his Master's degree from Fordham University in the Bronx, New York two years later. He made is first religious profession on June 22, 1956 and his perpetual profession on the same date in 1959. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 9, 1963 in Washington, D.C. by Archbishop Philp Hannan.

His assignments included teaching at the Stigmatine Seminary in Wellesley, Director of the Espousal Retreat House in Waltham, Associate Pastor at Sacred Heart Parish in Feeding Hills, Mass., Pastor of Our Lady of the Angels Parish in Woodbridge, Virgnia, Pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Milford and Associate Pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Springfield. In 2010 he retired to the Stigmatine Residence in Waltham.

Visitation on Monday, March 13, beginning at 9:30 a.m. in Sacred Heart Church, 5 East Main Street, Milford, where his Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Burial will follow in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Milford.

Published by Boston Globe from Mar. 11 to Mar. 12, 2023.
REV. PAUL D. BURNS, C.S.S.
AGE 87 YEARS

Rev. Paul D. Burns of Framingham, passed away March 6, 2023. Son of the late Alfred and Margaret (McDonnell) Burns. Brother of Donald (wife, Mary) of Billerica and Barbara of Wells, ME, and the late Alfred, Richard, and William Burns, and Beverly Strang. In addition to his Stigmatine community, Father Paul is survived by many nieces, nephews, and numerous friends.

Father Burns was raised in Watertown and entered the Stigmatine Seminary in Waltham and Wellesley in 1949 and graduated in 1956. After that he earned his Bachelor's degree from Catholic University in Washington in 1963 and his Master's degree from Fordham University in the Bronx, New York two years later. He made is first religious profession on June 22, 1956 and his perpetual profession on the same date in 1959. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 9, 1963 in Washington, D.C. by Archbishop Philp Hannan.

His assignments included teaching at the Stigmatine Seminary in Wellesley, Director of the Espousal Retreat House in Waltham, Associate Pastor at Sacred Heart Parish in Feeding Hills, Mass., Pastor of Our Lady of the Angels Parish in Woodbridge, Virgnia, Pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Milford and Associate Pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Springfield. In 2010 he retired to the Stigmatine Residence in Waltham.

Visitation on Monday, March 13, beginning at 9:30 a.m. in Sacred Heart Church, 5 East Main Street, Milford, where his Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Burial will follow in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Milford.

Published by Boston Globe from Mar. 11 to Mar. 12, 2023.

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  • Created by: Peggy English
  • Added: Mar 11, 2023
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/250464215/paul_d-burns: accessed ), memorial page for Rev Paul D. Burns (8 Sep 1935–6 Mar 2023), Find a Grave Memorial ID 250464215, citing Sacred Heart Cemetery, Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Peggy English (contributor 48201161).