Item 35 - Mission at the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, New York

1 p.; clipping

A clipping of an article reporting on a highly attended four-week parish mission conducted by the Irish Capuchin friars at the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle on West 118th Street in New York City. Formally opened on 4 October with a Solemn High Mass, the mission is being led by Fathers Joseph Fenelon, Matthew O’Connor, Brendan O’Callaghan, and Fintan Roche, with the opening sermon delivered by Father Joseph. The campaign dedicates individual weeks to married women, married men, single women, and single men respectively, drawing overflow crowds to both the upper and basement churches. The report highlights heavily attended early morning Masses, long lines for confession, the enrolment of local women into the St. Anne Society, and traditional sermons focused strictly on family life, marital duties, and contemporary social morality. The clipping is taken from the ‘Catholic News’ (17 October 1925).