Fireworks at St Mary festival. More videos on the St Marys Youtube channel.
St Mary’s Festival (and Francis) featured in Phila Inquirer: The Feast of the Assumption Festival is front and center on page B-1 of today’s Philadelphia Inquirer with great photos from staff photographer Akira Suwa. Captions: “Sunday was a day of summer fun at the 87th annual Feast of the Assumption Carnival at St. Mary Roman Catholic Church in Malaga, Franklin Township. Top, Francis Heiland, 4, of Hammonton, splashes down a water slide. Above, the train ride was a popular attraction. Bottom: Colleen Bingam and Andrew Pron of Cape May carry their midway prizes. The carnival also featured a chicken barbecue and musical performances, and the day was to be capped off with a fireworks display.
Here’s how it looked on the page spread:
Julie hawking shirts: Julie selling St Marys Feast of the Assumption t-shirts after mass.
Rosary Garden: The newly-fixed fountain in the foreground. St. Mary’s, Malaga, NJ
Theo sports a Feast of the Assumption t-shirt: Theo looking good in the just-finished Feast of the Assumption shirt: come to St Mary’s Malaga tomorrow and buy your own!
Italian Tribune: ‘Labor of Love’ in 1922, St. Mary’s Slated for Closing.
My wife’s Julie’s church was a feature article in the Italian Tribune. I pretty sure the pictures come from the Save St Mary’s campaign and it’s Diocese of Camden watchdog site (eagle-eyed fans will spot Theo at the bottom!).
No one has a devotion to the Catholic faith like Italians. When the first immigrants came to the United States, they brought with them their religious dedication. Churches were built by Italians so they could have their own parishes where they could congregate and worship as a group. St. Mary’s Church in Malaga, New Jersey is one of these churches, built by its devoted Italian founders. However, Bishop Joseph Galante of Camden Diocese wants to close the church, and parishioners are trying to keep it open.
