Fr. Michael Cunningham, is a Redemptorist priest stationed at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Brooklyn, New York. He has been an ordained priest since 2019.
Recently at OLPH Church in Brooklyn, he has established the OLPH Observatory, which is perched high above the streets of Brooklyn. His church also recently acquired its own observatory code (W69) from the Minor Planet Center (MPC).
The observatory allows him to peer into the night sky to better look at the cosmos and gives a glimpse into the one who created it. In the same way, we may examine the stitches of an old quilt left behind by our grandmother to understand better who she was and what she may have been thinking when she created it.
So, it is with God and the remnants he left behind in the universe, the planets, and the stars. From this posture of wonder, we look up at the night sky here in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, all in the hopes of better understanding what we see and sharing that knowledge with others.
Fr. Mike studied pharmacy while attending university and became a licensed pharmacist. He was a practicing pharmacist for sixteen years. He would later acquire a master’s degree (M.Div.) at Boston College and an additional certificate in philosophy at St John’s University.
He traveled the world, from the Bronx to Mississippi, Canada, Boston, St. Lucia, and then back to Boston again. He then traveled to Bolivia for a year and then to Brooklyn, where he currently resides.