The Chancellor’s Office was informed of the death of Reverend Michael Rock, O. de M., 62, Vicar Provincial of the Mercedarian Friars, U.S.A., on Tuesday, October 5, 2021. 

Funeral Masses will be held at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, in Philadelphia, where he had been serving as Pastor, and at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, in Cleveland. 

Please keep the Mercedarian community, especially our local Mercedarian priests, in your kind thoughts and prayers, as they mourn the loss of their confrere. 
Expressions of support may be sent to the local Mercedarian community at the following address: St. Peter Nolasco Residence, 5650 7^th Avenue N., St. Petersburg, FL  33710.

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May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed
rest in peace!