From New Jersey-Church was the one constant that Katie McCallister said she had growing up; however, becoming a priest came as a humble surprise.
On May 24, McCallister, 26, was ordained as a priest in her home parish, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in South River.
“It was very meaningful to be ordained in the church I grew up in,” she said. “The coolest thing is, although the ordination was about me, it really was not about me at all.”
McCallister explained that the congregants at Holy Trinity currently have an interim rector, and the search for a full-time rector has been ongoing for two years. Last month, the congregants were able to witness McCallister, a fixture in the church, enter priesthood.
The journey to priesthood hasn’t been straightforward. McCallister went to elementary school in Old Bridge and spent the rest of her time in South Amboy, graduating from South Amboy High School in 2005.
“I was a troubled teenager,” she said, adding that she had dabbled in alcohol and a few drugs around the time her parents divorced.
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