[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 12727]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




IN RECOGNITION OF FATHER BYRON COLLINS OF THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 
                     ORDINATION INTO THE PRIESTHOOD

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                          HON. JOHN P. MURTHA

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 11, 2002

  Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, June 21, 2002, a gentleman who 
has been a friend to many of us in this chamber over the last quarter 
century, Father T. Byron Collins, S.J., celebrated the golden 
anniversary of his ordination into the priesthood. He entered the 
Jesuit Order in September, 1940.
  Through fifty years of ordained priesthood, Father Collins has left a 
lasting impression on the lives of many devout Catholics. Virtually 
every weekend, Father Collins travels over 150 miles round trip to say 
Mass at Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church in Centreville on 
Maryland's Eastern Shore. During the week, he is an active presence on 
the campus of Georgetown University where he not only has played a 
major role in shaping the physical presence of that institution, but 
has also enhanced the understanding of the Catholic faith among the 
students. Now in his eighth decade of life, Father Collins is still 
seen rowing on the Chesapeake Bay and bicycling in the vicinity of the 
Georgetown campus. This is a man who is living life to the fullest and 
continuing in many ways to serve his faith.
  I know that Father Collins is immensely proud--in his very humble 
way--of having been able to play a significant role in the life of 
Georgetown University, the Nation's oldest Catholic university. 
Likewise, I know that many of us in this House have come to admire and 
respect this man of the cloth. He has been a friend who has been with 
us in times of joy and of tribulation. He is to be commended for the 
fifty years of service he has provided since his ordination.

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