Fr. Craig G. Carolan was born on August 26, 1959 in Pigeon, Michigan, the son of Paul and Evelyn Carolan. After his father tragically died in an auto accident in 1963, his mother remarried the late Francis Goslin in 1966. Craig was a student at St. Agatha School in Gagetown until the fourth grade and when the school closed, he transferred to the Gagetown Elementary School for 5th and 6th grades. From 1972-74, Craig attended Owendale-Gagetown Junior High in Gagetown. From 1974-77, he attended Owendale-Gagetown High School in Owendale. After graduation, Craig attended St. Meinrad College Seminary, in Saint Meinrad, Indiana, majoring in Spanish. After college, Craig took a leave of absence, and joined the U. S. Navy for four years and was assigned to Commander Second Fleet/Commander Striking Fleet Atlantic onboard USS
Mount Whitney homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. After Craig’s honorable discharge from the Navy, he returned to study for the priesthood at Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio. After a pastoral year in Brownsville, Texas, Craig was accepted by the Diocese of Brownsville. During his final year of seminary he served as a transitional deacon.
Fr. Craig was ordained to the Priesthood by the Most Reverend John Joseph Fitzpatrick
on June 8, 1991 at St. Agatha Church in Gagetown. He has served a total of ten parishes during
his 34 years of priesthood. Fr. Craig was the founding pastor of the new San Cristobal
Magallanes and Companions Parish in Mission, Texas. He had served a total of 20 years in the
Diocese of Brownsville. After the death of his step-father, Francis Goslin in 2011, Fr. Craig
returned to Michigan and to the Diocese of Saginaw to take care of his mother, who still resides
in Gagetown. So far, the parish where he has served the longest has been Annunciation of the
Lord Parish in Port Austin, for a total of 12 years.
Mount Whitney homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. After Craig’s honorable discharge from the Navy, he returned to study for the priesthood at Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio. After a pastoral year in Brownsville, Texas, Craig was accepted by the Diocese of Brownsville. During his final year of seminary he served as a transitional deacon.
Fr. Craig was ordained to the Priesthood by the Most Reverend John Joseph Fitzpatrick
on June 8, 1991 at St. Agatha Church in Gagetown. He has served a total of ten parishes during
his 34 years of priesthood. Fr. Craig was the founding pastor of the new San Cristobal
Magallanes and Companions Parish in Mission, Texas. He had served a total of 20 years in the
Diocese of Brownsville. After the death of his step-father, Francis Goslin in 2011, Fr. Craig
returned to Michigan and to the Diocese of Saginaw to take care of his mother, who still resides
in Gagetown. So far, the parish where he has served the longest has been Annunciation of the
Lord Parish in Port Austin, for a total of 12 years.
Fr. Craig Carolan as a twelve-year-old altar boy in 1971.
Please pray for our pastor, Fr. Craig!
And please pray for all priests, and for an increase to priestly vocations!
Lord Jesus, we your people pray to You for our priests. You have given them to us for OUR needs. We pray for them in THEIR needs. We know that You have made them priests in the likeness of your own priesthood. You have consecrated them, set them aside, anointed them, filled them with the Holy Spirit, appointed them to teach, to preach, to minister, to console, to forgive, and to feed us with Your Body and Blood. Yet we know, too, that they are one with us and share our human weaknesses. We know too that they are tempted to sin and discouragement as are we, needing to be ministered to, as do we, to be consoled and forgiven, as do we. Indeed, we thank You for choosing them from among us, so that they understand us as we understand them, suffer with us and rejoice with us, worry with us and trust with us, share our beings, our lives, our faith. We ask that You give them this day the gift You gave Your chosen ones on the way to Emmaus: Your presence in their hearts, Your holiness in their souls, Your joy in their spirits. And let them see You face to face in the breaking of the Eucharistic bread. We pray to You, O Lord, through Mary the mother of all priests, for Your priests and for ours. Amen.
And please pray for all priests, and for an increase to priestly vocations!
Lord Jesus, we your people pray to You for our priests. You have given them to us for OUR needs. We pray for them in THEIR needs. We know that You have made them priests in the likeness of your own priesthood. You have consecrated them, set them aside, anointed them, filled them with the Holy Spirit, appointed them to teach, to preach, to minister, to console, to forgive, and to feed us with Your Body and Blood. Yet we know, too, that they are one with us and share our human weaknesses. We know too that they are tempted to sin and discouragement as are we, needing to be ministered to, as do we, to be consoled and forgiven, as do we. Indeed, we thank You for choosing them from among us, so that they understand us as we understand them, suffer with us and rejoice with us, worry with us and trust with us, share our beings, our lives, our faith. We ask that You give them this day the gift You gave Your chosen ones on the way to Emmaus: Your presence in their hearts, Your holiness in their souls, Your joy in their spirits. And let them see You face to face in the breaking of the Eucharistic bread. We pray to You, O Lord, through Mary the mother of all priests, for Your priests and for ours. Amen.
