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Sacred Heart students celebrate Chinese New Year
Original Publication Date: 02.19.93
MARY K. ST. PIERRE | FC FILE
NEW SMYRNA BEACH | Kenny Tsai (front) leads the fierce dragon created by his kindergarten class in a Chinese New Year’s celebration parade at Sacred Heart School in New Smyrna Beach. Also leading the giant animal are Lauren Buckels (left), Anne Oskandy (right) and teacher Sharon Neitzey.
Posted: 05.29.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
St. Teresa School students pray for life
Original Publication Date: 11.04.77
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TITUSVILLE | St. Teresa School students recited a living rosary on the church grounds in October to halt the spread of abortion in Brevard County and across the country. Placed at the foot of the shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel was the traveling statue of Mary, property of the Southern Deanery Council of Catholic Women. Each parish honors the Marian image for two–week time periods.
Posted: 05.28.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
All Souls’ students return from ‘dream class trip’
Original Publication Date: 05.27.83
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SANFORD | Mrs. Ellen Bernosky, eighth–grade teacher, and students Lynda Swisher and Lesley Lyle of All Souls School in Sanford look at photographs of their Williamsburg trip. Eighth–grade students at the school raised $5,000 for a dream class trip to Williamsburg, Va. From January to April the 22 students sold donuts, sponsored car washes and bake sales, and conducted flea markets and garage sales. Sunday, April 10, the students rode a train to Richmond, Va. On Monday they arrived and bused the rest of the way to Williamsburg. From then until their departure Wednesday, it was a whirlwind of sightseeing, picture–taking and visits to Yorktown and Jamestown Historical Park.
Posted: 05.27.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Sacred Heart students entertain Maria Manor residents
Original Publication Date: 11.04.77
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PINELLAS PARK | Sixth–grader Jeff Janos of Sacred Heart School plays the accordion as students present their third annual pumpkin caroling program to residents of Maria Manor Health Care Center in St. Petersburg. The students, dressed in Halloween costumes, escorted ambulatory residents from their rooms to the main lounge for the program, where they distributed handmade Halloween favors, masks and cards.
“This is strictly a volunteer undertaking,” said Sister Louette Signorielli, ASCJ, one of the five sisters who accompanied the children. “But they’re very excited about this every year and we get excellent response, more than we have room for on the bus.”
Posted: 05.26.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Bishop Tanner visits north Florida parish, mission
Original Publication Date: 06.20.1969
MARIANNA | Bishop Paul F. Tanner, top, Father Brendan J. Heaslip, center, and altar boys (from left) Kevin White and Michael Esser process from St. Anne Parish in Marianna on the feast of Corpus Christi.
During his visit to the area, the bishop also celebrated Mass at St. Joseph the Worker in Chipley, a mission of St. Anne. The two churches serve the mission area of Jackson, Washington, Calhoun and Holmes counties where there are approximately 100 families in the 2,610 square miles covered by the four counties.
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Posted: 05.25.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Port Charlotte parish is dedicated
Original Publication Date: 07.24.59
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PORT CHARLOTTE | Bishop Coleman Carroll officiates at the solemn dedication ceremonies for St. Charles Borromeo Church July 19. Father Joseph DeVaney, V.F., pastor of St. Frances Xavier Parish, Fort Myers, and Father Matthew Hartinger, O.S.B., administrator, St. Paul’s Parish, Arcadia, were chaplains to Bishop Carroll. Father Hilary McGowan, C.P., is administrator of the new west coast parish.
Posted: 05.22.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Mission accomplished at St. Catherine of Siena
Original Publication Date: 05.21.98
JULIE GREENE | FC FILE
KISSIMMEE | Bishop Norbert M. Dorsey, CP, poses with Jennifer Ruiz, 14, who is dressed as St. Catherine of Siena for the blessing of the new mission building at St. Catherine of Siena Mission in Kissimmee.
A few months after visiting the tornado–ravaged Buenaventura Lakes community in Kissimmee, Bishop Dorsey returned for a much more joyous occasion – to bless the first building of St. Catherine of Siena Mission.
A mission of Holy Redeemer Parish in Kissimmee, St. Catherine Mission began almost three years ago and now serves 1,200 families. The mission operated out of rented office space at Buenaventura Lakes Mall. Masses were initially held at an area golf course with overflowing crowds until golf-course management expressed concern about the crowds. The St. Cloud–Kissimmee Council 6624 of the Knights of Columbus hosted the mission’s Masses in its hall until the new facility was completed.
In September 1996, the mission was given official designation by the diocese. On March 19, 1997, the mission celebrated groundbreaking for the multipurpose building, which was completed before the tornadoes destroyed the mission’s rented pastoral center. Mission members were progressively moving items to the new mission building, so most of the new sacramental items were left unscathed.
Posted: 05.21.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Mass at ‘St.’ Jake’s Bowling Alley
Original Publication Date: 02.06.59
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COCOA BEACH | The congregation of the new Church of Our Savior, Cocoa Beach, attends Mass in its temporary church at Jake’s Bowling Alley, where Mass has been held each Sunday for more than two years. Father Charles W. Spellman, pastor, is pictured as he was about to begin the Mass. This scene will be soon relegated to the pages of history, for a building fund campaign for the construction of a provisional church is now under way. Bids are to be opened Feb. 8 and the contract awarded soon thereafter for the construction of the new building.
Want to know how it feels to live in a “boom town” near the Guided Missile Testing Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla.? Go to Cocoa Beach some Sunday morning and attend Mass at Jake’s Bowling Alley.
As you take your seat in one of the spectators’ benches, not knowing whether to genuflect or just sit down, the first thing that meets your eye is a big sign: “Bowl away your troubles –– alleys open from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m.”
As you look down at the makeshift altar, set on the runways to the alleys, you see, stretching behind it, the neat alleys with all the pins in place.
Bowling balls are conveniently in place alongside the wall on either side. You begin to feel like taking off your street shoes to put on your bowling keds.
Your eye is again attracted to the altar, for, just above twhere the crucifix is hanging on the cheesecloth–covered backdrop, a very familiar sign not usually seen in churches: “Miller’s High Life –– the Champagne of Beers.”
Posted: 05.20.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
St. Andrew’s Parish Council ballots counted by computer
Original Publication Date: 02.13.70
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CAPE CORAL | Looking over ballots cast in the election to the new parish council of St. Andrew Parish in Cape Coral are Father Esteban G. Soy, pastor, Rudolph A. Osterman and Mrs. D.J. Neville.
Members of St. Andrew Parish in Cape Coral elected 12 to the parish council to assist priests of the parish in spiritual, educational and financial matters. Father Soy said the following parishioners were elected by secret ballot, tabulated by computers: James E. Nelson, Dr. George Ramsey, Mrs. Marian Brubaker, Donald Graf, Charles Cavanaugh, Dick Sayers, Lyman Moore, Edward Voight, John Holtschneider, Mrs. Veronica Awis, John O’Donnell and Edward Ackerman.
Posted: 05.19.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Fatima fascination
Original Publication Date: 02.25.1994
PLANT CITY | Alexa Barrios, 2, marvels at the stony stares of children gazing at the Blessed Virgin Mary statue at St. Clement Parish in Plant City.
JEAN PALOMBO | FC FILE
Posted: 05.18.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Sarasota parish builds a school
Original Publication Date: 09.18.64
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SARASOTA | Our Lady Queen of Martyrs’ second graders in Sarasota look at the construction of their new school with their parish priest, Father Joseph P. Moran, and teachers, from left, Sister Lucelia, principal, Sister Patrick Michael and Sister Eva Mary. These School Sisters of St. Francis have begun teaching grades one through four. The classes will move into the new classrooms as soon as construction permits.
Posted: 05.18.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Ormond Beach Prince of Peace Parish dedicated
Original Publication Date: 10.31.69
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ORMOND BEACH | Bishop William D. Borders exits Prince of Peace Church in Ormond Beach after a Mass of Dedication. The bishop told the people at the Masses that they were both dedicating a new temple of worship and marking the beginning of a new Christian community that will be felt in the Halifax area for years to come.
Father Emilio Garcia, pastor, planned a midday luncheon for his clergy guests and the afternoon program included a sacred concert on the organ by Father Jose Ferrero of Jacksonville. The parish, served by two priests, first began to use the church on Mother’s Day this year.
Posted: 05.18.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Incarnation scouts build portable altar
Original Publication Date: 03.16.68
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SARASOTA | Members of Boy Scout Troop 103 of Incarnation Parish, Sarasota, made a portable altar and donated it to the church. From left are John Scheb, William Meadows, Father Cornelius Dougherty, pastor, and scoutmasters Grant Meadows Sr. and Ralph Kehn.
Posted: 05.18.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Miami’s first bishop arrives
Original Publication Date: 10.10.58
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MIAMI | Newly installed Bishop Coleman F. Carroll, left, raises his hand in blessing as he arrived by air in Miami. Holding his cane, kneeling behind Carroll, is Msgr. William Barry, longtime pioneer in south Florida and brother of the former Bishop Patrick Barry of St. Augustine; standing, making the sign of the cross is Archbishop Joseph P. Hurley of St. Augustine; the younger, hatless priest behind Hurley is Msgr. John P. McNulty.
The Miami flock received its shepherd and the shepherd came unto his own. That is the drama that unfolded with solemn grandeur Tuesday, Oct. 7, at St. Mary’s Cathedral when the new Diocese of Miami was erected and Bishop Coleman Francis Carroll was installed as its first bishop. With more than a score of bishops, three abbots and hundreds of priests, sisters and lay men and women prayerfully participating, Archbishop Francis P. Keough of Baltimore carried out the wishes of Pope Pius XII in installing the new bishop of Miami.
Posted: 05.18.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
St. Martha School parents help buy books
Original Publication Date: 02.26.60
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SARASOTA | Parents Club representative William Matthews, right, presents a donation for the purchase of books at St. Martha School in Sarasota to Benedictine Sister M. Carmen. Eighth–graders, from left, are Mary Jane Anderson, Ann R. Kumpe and John Crimella.
Posted: 05.18.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Archbishop Sheen visits Orlando Diocese
Original Publication Date: 11.13.87
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LAKELAND | Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, right, was a guest speaker at a 1975 Holy Year observance held by Bishop Thomas J. Grady in the Orlando Diocese’s Western Deanery in Lakeland. This photograph from 1975 accompanied an interview with Bishop Grady that was published in 1987, his 20–year anniversary of being ordained a bishop.
Posted: 05.18.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Queen of Peace Parish honors Mary, former mission pastor
Original Publication Date: 01.29.88
JACQUE BRUND | FC FILE
OCALA | Father Patrick O’Doherty, pastor of Queen of Peace Parish, blesses a statue of Mary holding the baby Jesus during a special ceremony at the church. Engraved on the statue’s base are these words: “We the People of Queen of Peace Parish, wishing to give glory to the All Holy God for the Apostolic Zeal in spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ shown by His servant Father Larry Redmond in this Southwest area of Ocala, dedicate this statue.” Father Redmond, former pastor of mother parish Blessed Trinity, opened Queen of Peace as a mission.
Posted: 05.18.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
St. Mary Parish in Korona, an early Florida parish
Original Publication Date: 05.06.66
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KORONA | St. Mary Parish was built in 1914 by the original Polish settlers of Korona. The original 65–seat church, on U.S. 1 between Daytona Beach and Bunnell in Flagler County, still stands and is used on occasion for weddings, funerals and baptisms. An image of Our Lady of Czestochowa, top right, is among the icons and statues flanking the altar as it appeared in 1964. Sunday Masses in English and Polish take place in the new 300–seat church added to the grounds in 1994. For more about this early Florida parish, see: Tiny Polish parish joins global celebration
Posted: 05.18.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe May crowning
Original Publication Date: 09.16.1988
ORLANDO | Carrie Catley, 7, places a crown of flowers on a bronze sculpture of Mary for the month of May at the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe. Carrie, from Holy Family Parish, just made her first communion at the shrine.
Marian devotion, a high priority throughout Bishop Thomas J. Grady’s tenure in Orlando, has included naming Mary, Mother of God, as the patroness of the diocese and the building of the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe in Orlando.
The diocese, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1988, started out with 50 parishes and 128,000 Catholics. In 1988 it had 65 parishes and 200,000–plus Catholics. Diocesan officials project the need of 22 new parishes by 2000.
JACQUE BRUND | FC FILE
EDITOR’S NOTE: This photograph was made in May 1988 and appeared in a special section celebrating the Orlando Diocese’s 20th anniversary in September 1988.
Posted: 05.05.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Virgin of our Lady of Providence is crowned
Original Publication Date: 11.23.90
MARY K. ST. PIERRE | FC FILE
DELTONA | Prior to the offertory procession, Jessica Arenas, dressed as an angel, crowns a statue of Our Lady of Providence with a wreath of roses at Our Lady of the Lakes Parish in Deltona as Archbishop Hermin Negron of the Archdiocese of San Juan, Puerto Rico, far right, watches. The Hispanic community of the parish celebrated the feast of the Virgin of Our Lady of Providence.
Auxiliary Bishop Hermin Negron of the Archdiocese of San Juan, Puerto Rico, concelebrated the Mass and joined in the spirit of the feast day with more than 700 people from around the Diocese of Orlando. Concelebrating the Mass were Msgr. Francisco Campagnone, Father Michael Hanrahan, pastor, and Father Hugo Londono, associated pastor.
The feast of the Mother of the Divine Providence, Patroness of Puerto Rico, was instituted by Bishop Don Gil Esteve on Oct. 12, 1881. He chose the title of Mother of the Divine Providence as an advocation for the Virgin. An image of the patroness was received in Puerto Rico from Barcelona, Spain, and placed on the altar in the cathedral on Jan. 2, 1853. The altar was inaugurated May 6, 1881, and Pope Paul VI officially established it as a feast day of Puerto Rico on Nov. 19, 1969.
Before Mass, parishioners prayed the rosary during a procession around the church grounds. Teenagers and young children dressed in native costume marched in unison, holding flags and bouquets of flowers.
Posted: 05.04.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page
Nativity Parish first Communion and May crowning
Original Publication Date: 05.13.1988
LAKE MARY | Kelly Denise Carr crowns a statue of the Blessed Virgin during a May crowning at the First Holy Communion Mass at Nativity Parish.
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Posted: 05.01.09 | Return To Top | Florida Catholic Online Home Page