In Memoriam
BROTHER RAPHAEL MASCARI, FSC
We know that we have left death and come over into life; we know it because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love is still in death. This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We, too, then, ought to give our lives for our brothers!”
(1 John 3:14, 16)
Born into life on January 14, 1939, Brother Raphael Mascari, FSC, was a dedicated Christian Brother for 68 years and died in the Lord on January 22, 2024.
We remember and pray for our Brother Raphael Mascari, FSC, age 85. Brother William died Monday, January 22, 2024, in New Lenox, Illinois. A De La Salle Christian Brother for 68 years, he was born Michael James Mascari on January 14, 1939, in Chicago, Illinois.
He entered the novitiate of the Christian Brothers in 1956 in Glencoe, MO. He received the Religious Habit on August 30, 1956, and pronounced his Perpetual Vows at St. Mary’s in Winona, Minnesota in 1963.
Survivors include his sister Margaret Mascari Dvorak and, niece Laura Hajduk, and the De La Salle Christian Brothers.
Arrangements are as follows:
Visitation/Wake:
And Mass: Mass of Christian Burial –
Lewis University
Sancta Alberta Chapel
Luncheon to follow the liturgy.
Interment: Resurrection Cemetery
Romeoville, Illinois
Assignments
Christian Brothers High School, St. Joseph, MO | 1960-1962
St. Francis High School, Wheaton, IL | 1962-1964
La Salle High School, Cincinnati, OH | 1964-1965
House of Studies, St. Louis, MO | 1965-1967
Bishop Gallagher High School, Harper Woods, MI | 1967-1969
St. Francis High School, Wheaton, IL | 1969-1971
Lewis University, Romeoville, IL | 1971-2018
La Salle Community, Romeville, IL | 1971-2021
Franciscan Village, Lemont, IL | 2021-2024
