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Fr. McBurney has served as both a Pastor and Parochial Vicar in parishes in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.  He has also served his Augustinian Community as a Vocation Director and Director of Formation.

In addition to presently being the Parochial Vicar at Our Mother of Good Counsel Parish in Bryn Mawr, PA, he offers days of recollection and retreats.  He has been exploring spiritual direction with religious clergy and laity for 15 years.

Father Jim is the Son of Eddie and Mary McGuinn, both of whom were born in Ireland.  He has one brother, three sisters, and lots of nieces and nephews.  He grew up in Philadelphia, went to college in Massachusetts, and lived for a year in a monastery in Pittsburgh.  He attended St. Charles Borromeo seminary in Wynnewood, PA. and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in 1988.  He has been a parochial vicar, a high school teacher and chaplain, the director of the Newman ministries at two universities and a pastor.  He is the author and founder of CONNECTIONS, which is a new process that inspires and equips Catholics to grow in their faith and be fully devoted disciples of Jesus Christ.  He loves Catholic evangelization, helping parishes achieve their redemptive potential,and forming leaders.

Deacon Cincotta was ordained in 2013 and assigned to St. Mary Magdalen in Media, PA.  Deacon Tony attended the University of Maryland and received advanced degrees in Criminal Justice and American History.  After a thirty-year career with the Montgomery County Maryland Department of Police, he became a business executive with MVM, Inc. in McLean, Virginia.  After moving to Pennsylvania with his wife, Eileen, in 2002, he taught history at Widener University prior to entering St. Charles Seminary to study for the diaconate.  Deacon Tony has directed in numerous retreats at the Malvern Retreat House.