Monsignor James P. McMENEMIE

Msgr. McMenemie will be missed dearly. He was a gentle, kind, loving priest who had a way a speaking to you that just made you know everything would be okay. He always spoke to you by your name, you could meet with him for the first time and he would always remember you. I am blessed to have known Msgr.McMenemie. May God's light shine upon you on your journey home to Him.

The world has lost a good and beautiful soul.
Monsignor McMenemie was a good freind, and did my wife Nina and I the honor of officiating at our wedding. Under his help and guidance I was able to secure an annulment from my first marriage so we could be married in Church. He was with us for all the pre-ceremony dinners and meetings.
On the day of our wedding, the Monsignor was feeling very ill,and I was so worried I told him I would return him to the Rectory. He refused and said...

I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Father McMenemie. While a student at SHU and a Boland Hall resident, he was our mentor and dear friend. Later on, in Jan 1974 in the Seton Hall Chapel, Father McMenemie joined Janet and me in the sacrament of Matrimony, for which I shall forever be grateful. I can't believe it's been over 36 years since having last seen him, but will always remember him fondly. My wife Janet and I wish him God Speed.

In loving memory of Fr. Jim, my cousin, whose mind and heart matured through the Second Vatican Council and through his personal knowledge of hundreds of families in their times of deepest trouble. Man of compassion, intellect and fatherly kindness.
Barbara D. Miles

Jim and I were friends for more than 60 years. We were classmates at seminary and Catholic University, were ordained together and had assignments that overlapped at Seton Hall when he was chaplain and at OLV when I was weekend assistant for a number of years. I spent many wonderful hours at his family home in Harrison with his parents and siblings. Since I'm in California I will not be able to attend the funeral mass and am using this to express my sympathies to his family and assure them of...

"FJ" -- A dear friend of my parents for 50 years, in turn, to my siblings and me for all our lives. He was there for our baptisms, our weddings and some of our funerals. What I remember most when I was young, Fr. Jim would always show up when the family was in some kind of distress, and that would mean to me however bad things appeared, it would turn out to be okay. I would also like to thank him for all he did for me through my life - especially fielding the many questions, and turns, in...

My late father and late brother and a man called Ed Keel (who was aspiring to the priesthood, he was a boy at the time it was around the year 1960) and I were working in the auditorium at Our Lady of the Visitation School in Paramus, NJ. It was summer. Fr. Jim came into the auditorium to pass some time and my father said to us that he played the clarinet so he went and retrieved his clarinet and played "Tiger Rag" for us. I had much time to spend at the church where he was for the years...

I was very sad to hear of Fr. Jim's passing. He was a dear friend to my parents and my family, long after he left Our Lady of the Visitation parish in Paramus, NJ. He holds a special place in my heart as he married my husband and I and baptised both of my children. He provided comfort and support to me and my family at the funeral masses for both of my parents. He made every event so meaningful and personal. He was a wonderful man and I feel blessed for having known him.

Our deepest sympathies. Father Jim has been a part of my life since I was a small child. He taught me sign language as a child. He performed our marriage ceremony and baptised both of our children. He was a close friend to both of my parents. I will always rembember fondly Father Jim.