Epiphany – 2027

A priest serving the Diocese of Trenton, NJ, Father Jim Grogan was ordained to the priesthood in 2015 and has served as an associate and pastor at parishes within the Diocese of Trenton in Burlington and Monmouth counties, NJ. Prior to his ordination to the priesthood, Father Jim served as a Permanent Deacon for eleven years. His ministry included extensive involvement in parish ministries, retreats and liturgical music. Father Jim regularly incorporates music in the retreat programs he leads, he is a regular facilitator of retreats and evenings of recollection. Father Jim has developed a focus on teaching adults to pray; on strengthening and sustaining Marriages; and on hospice care ministry. As a priest, Fr. Jim’s favorite sacrament is Reconciliation.

Prior to entering the priesthood, Father Jim had been married, and along with his wife raised three sons. His family life as a husband and father included serving on the school and planning boards of his parish, as well as for Holy Cross High School, and assisting in many ways as a coach and athletic director for CYO and recreational sports programs. His increased involvement in ministry and discernment of the priesthood followed the death of his wife in 2007.

Father Jim’s professional life prior to serving in ministry includes a 35+ year career in the area of business and technology. Most of that professional time was spent as a company leader and subject-matter-expert on business continuity, information security, and data center management.

The seventh of nine children, Father Lamb was ordained in 1983 for the Diocese of Allentown in Pennsylvania. He attended Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He served as an assistant pastor at three parishes for eleven years before going into high school work at three different high schools for fifteen years. Currently, he is the pastor of Queenship of Mary Church and Assumption Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Northampton, Pennsylvania.

His spiritual life was greatly influenced by his father, a recovering alcoholic, who died sober in 1995. Father Lamb maintains that there is no contradiction between Twelve-Step Spirituality and Catholicism.