Nathan Chase

NATHAN PETER CHASE, our gift from God, was born March 19, 1990, in Dallas, Texas and passed away March 1, 2025 at age 34 years after a courageous and difficult fight against leukemia. He is survived by his father, Andrew Chase, and mother, Anita Chase and by a loving family of one aunt, two uncles and three cousins. Despite having no siblings, there are many others he held extremely dear as adopted extended family.

Nathan graduated from Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas during which time he was awarded “Senior Man for Others” and his Eagle Scout status. He went on to Boston College for his undergraduate degree. From there he enrolled at St. John’s Seminary - School of Theology where he received a double master’s degree. Then he proceeded to get an advanced master’s degree at KU Leuven in Belgium. His dream was to complete a PhD program at Notre Dame which he did by 2020. He was hired at Aquinas Institute in St. Louis, where he served as assistant professor in sacramental and liturgical theology for 4 years.

He was very active in the field of liturgy as a member of American Academy of Religion, Catholic Theological Society of America, North American Academy of Liturgy – “Problems in the Early History of Liturgy” seminar, North American Patristics Society, Societas Liturgica, Society for Oriental Liturgy and The Catholic Academy of Liturgy. Included among his professional accomplishments are 8 books which he wrote or edited, three of which will be published this year. He had a passion for church liturgy and believed the way you live your life as a Christian is a form of worship or liturgy to your Lord. He was a bright light who made a lasting impression on the lives of many people.

He was an intelligent, funny and compassionate man of faith. He had a talent for music, singing in school and church choirs and playing the French horn in his high school and college bands. He also had a love for traveling which took him the world over. As an avid reader, he was knowledgeable in a variety of different areas.

As he went through 17 months of treatment for leukemia, the shedding of Christ’s blood took on an ever growing special meaning for him. He came to realize that while his blood was literally “bad blood”, Christ’s was “holy blood” sacrificed for him to make him eternally whole. He was a rock like his middle name Peter implied and as he put it “I’m ready for the journey of moving upstairs to heaven.” He could confidently say with Timothy, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day (2 Tim 4:6-8).”

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in Washington DC or St. Peregrine Cancer Shrine in Mesa, AZ.

Visitation will be held at Ted Dickey Funeral Home on 18th St, Plano on Friday 3/14 6:00-8:00pm. Funeral services will be at St. Rita Catholic Church on Inwood Rd, Dallas on Saturday 3/15 at noon followed by a reception at 1:00pm. Interment will take place at 2:30pm at Plano Mutual Cemetery.