[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 111 (Friday, August 7, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1629-E1630]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 CONGRATULATING MONSIGNOR ALLIEGRO ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF 
                             HIS ORDINATION

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                          HON. MICHAEL PAPPAS

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, August 6, 1998

  Mr. PAPPAS. Mr. Speaker, it is my honor to congratulate Monsignor 
Michael J. Alliegro as he celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of 
his ordination to the priesthood.
  Since his ordination in May 1973, Monsignor Alliegro has served the 
people of New Jersey in many ways. Upon ordination, he served as 
associate pastor of his childhood parish, Our Lady of Peace in Fords, 
New Jersey. He then served as vice principal of Saint John Vianney High 
School in Holmdel, New Jersey, as principal of Bishop Ahr High School 
in Edison, New Jersey and on the faculty of Immaculate Conception 
Seminary in South Orange, New Jersey.
  When the Diocese of Metuchen was established in 1981, Monsignor 
Alliegro held various leadership posts in which he assisted parishes 
and citizens with their spiritual needs, in addition to helping to 
increase vocations to the priesthood.

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  The community-at-large has also benefitted from Monsignor Alliegro's 
dedicated service. Since 1990, he has served as chaplain to the men and 
women of the East Brunswick Police Department. He also lives by the 
command to ``serve the least of my brothers and sisters'' through his 
support of the Saint Vincent de Paul food pantry. The countless hours 
which Monsignor Alliegro dedicates to those in need of clothes, food, 
emotional and physical support is an example which all of us should 
model.
  Monsignor Alliegro's humble work on behalf of the people of New 
Jersey earned him the title ``Monsignor,'' which was bestowed on him by 
Pope John Paul II in 1993. Today, he continues to serve the diocese's 
spiritual life as pastor of Saint Bartholomew Parish in East Brunswick.
  Mr. Speaker, Mother Teresa asked all of us ``to quench the thirst of 
Jesus by lives of real charity.'' Monsignor Alliegro has done this 
throughout his life. I wish him many more years of selfless charity to 
all of God's people.

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