Native Place: Manila, Philippines
Entered Novitiate: August 25, 2018
First Promises: September 6, 2019
Final Promises: September 8, 2023
Diaconate Ordination: September 9, 2023
Priestly Ordination: May 18, 2024
First Mass of Thanksgiving: May 19, 2024
Read Fr. Dan's full vocation story at beapaulist.org
Paulist Fr. Danilo Macalinao is a native of the Philippines.
He earned his undergraduate degree in 2008 from Wesleyan University where he studied molecular biology and biochemistry
In May, 2018, he received a doctorate in cancer biology from the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Science in New York City.
He met the Paulist Fathers at our mother church, the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City, where he was a leader for several years in the parish's vibrant music ministry.
In his first priestly assignment, Fr. Dan is serving as associate pastor of Old St. Mary's Church in Chicago.
playlist tool in the video player.Podcast: Deacons Pod
April 23, 2024
Feature: "Five Questions with Paulist Seminarian Dan Macalinao"
August 29, 2023
2019 Promises Mass
September 6, 2019
St. Joseph's Seminary, Washington, D.C.
Dan provides music at the September 2019 Mass in Washington, D.C. that welcomed new novices and saw seminarians reaffirm their promises to the Paulist Fathers.
Dan "signs in" as a Paulist novice during a Mass on August 25, 2018, in the chapel of St. Joseph Seminary in Washington, D.C.
Dan served as cantor of our 2017 Mass with Ordinations to the Diaconate in the Crypt Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
Dan with Paulist Fathers and friends after our Ordination Mass in May, 2017.