Rev. Jacques A. McGuffie, a native of Haiti who served as a priest in the Archdiocese of Boston from 2013-2017, died on Dec. 9 at age 76. Rev. McGuffie served as a priest in Dorchester at Holy Family Parish and St. Peter parish in 2013-2015 and was a Deacon at St. Patrick’s in Roxbury prior to his ordination.

Fr. McGuffie was a delayed vocation who came to the priesthood after the death of his wife, Marie Clorette Péan, with whom he raised two daughters and two adopted children. After his wife’s death in 2009, McGuffie elected to enter the seminary and suspend his longtime career as a CPA in Dorchester to “pursue a higher calling,” as he wrote in a 2013 article.

“My life as a priest is not one of luxury on easy street; this is not what Jesus promised; but life is good. Then again, being a priest is not about me; it’s about proclaiming the kingdom of God by word and by the way I live my life,” he said.

Rev. McGuffie was also assigned to St Joseph Parish and St Catherine of Genoa Parish in Somerville in 2015-2017. His funeral Mass was celebrated on Dec. 16 at St Joseph Church in Boston. His internment followed at Mount Hope Cemetery.