Religious Staff

We are blessed to have 8 members of the religious community present on our grounds.

Fr. John Mark McFarland

Rector & Prior

Fr. John Mark McFarland was fairly new to traditional Catholicism when he entered the seminary in the fall of 2006. In fact, only two years previous had he attended his first Latin Mass in September 2004. Growing up with the Novus Ordo Mass, he attended Pope John Paul II High School in Boca Raton, Florida.
Even though the name of the school suggested Catholicism, it did very little to sow the seed of a vocation. The religious atmosphere of the school was essentially non-existent. It was, as a matter of course, a nominally Catholic school, and nothing more. Following his graduation, Fr. McFarland attended the University of Maryland where he got a degree in history. Even at this time, he had no serious thought of a vocation. That started coming in September 2004 when he attended his first Latin Mass. 
He was ordained in 2012, and was assigned to St. Mary's Academy in Kansas, where he has spent 5 years in the Academy teaching, and assisting with parish duties.
He is also the chaplain for the men's Holy Name Society. 

Fr. Thomas Buschmann

Pastor

Fr. Buschmann is from Woodbury, Minnesota and was ordained on June 22, 2018, by Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais SSPX in Dillwyn, Virginia.  He was first assigned to the priory in Los Gatos and then to Immaculate Conception Church in Post Falls, ID (2019-2025). Fr. Buschmann is currently the Pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows. He is also the spiritual head of the Nunc Dimittis, Ladies Auxiliary Group, and OLOS SSPX Third Order. 

Fr. Thomas Scott

Assistant

Fr. Frank Kurtz

Assistant - Mission: Prescott

Father Frank Kurtz was ordained in 1997. He spent his first four years as an assistant priest in Dickinson, TX, teaching in the school and traveling to Kenner, Louisiana and Orlando, FL for Sunday Mass. In 2001 he was appointed Prior in Browerville, MN, where he also served as Pastor and Principal of St. John Vianney Church in Long Prairie.
In 2004, Bishop Fellay assigned Fr. Kurtz to Burghclere, Great Britain, as Headmaster of St. Michael’s School. In 2007 he was assigned to the church and school in Wanganui, New Zealand. In 2009, Fr. Kurtz returned to the United States and became Prior and Pastor of St. Mary’s
Assumption Church in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as Principal of Queen of the Holy Rosary Academy. After five years in Missouri, he was appointed Prior and Pastor of Queen of Angels Church in Dickinson, Texas. Following a sabbatical year, he transferred in 2020 to Walton, KY, where he taught sixth-grade History and Religion. 
Fr. Kurtz arrived at the OLOSA priory in 2022. In addition to his duties leading Mission Santa Maria in the Prescott area, he assists at the priory and church in Phoenix, supports the work of the Sursum Corda House retirement home, and teaches Civics at Our Lady of Sorrows Academy.

Fr. David Fulton

Assistant

Fr. Daniel Dailey

Principal

Brother Benedict

Maintenance

Brother Isaias

Sacristan