ADVISORY/Ground Zero Catholic Police Chaplain to Speak At Knights of Columbus Blue Mass Honoring Law Enforcement and Fire Dept. Officials.Assignment & News Editors ADVISORY...for Sunday (Feb. 10) NEW HAVEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE) Father Robert J. Romano who has ministered at World Trade Center ground zero since the morning of Sept. 11 will deliver homily homily (hŏm`əlē), type of oral religious instruction delivered to a church congregation. In the patristic period through the Middle Ages the focus of the homily was on the explanation and application of texts read or sung during the at Blue Mass, St. Mary's Church, New Haven The Church of St. Mary's, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, is the parish church of the second oldest Catholic parish in Connecticut, being established in 1832. The first church was built in 1834 and burnt down in 1848. , CONN, Feb. 10, 10:00AM The Knights of Columbus Knights of Columbus, American Roman Catholic society for men, founded (1882) at New Haven, Conn. (where its headquarters are still located), by Father Michael J. McGivney. is sponsoring a Blue Mass to "recognize the great work and self-sacrifice at the service of the common good that police and firefighters give," said Carl A. Anderson Carl A. Anderson (February 27, 1951) is the thirteenth and current Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus. Before becoming Supreme Knight in 2000 he served as Assistant Supreme Secretary and Supreme Secretary. , supreme knight of the K of C. "These are not easy qualities, so it is important that we call upon God to help them in their work. This Blue Mass is the Knights' way of showing solidarity and support." Father Robert J. Romano, a New York Police New York Police may refer to:
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The Knights of Columbus is a Catholic fraternal benefit company headquartered in New Haven, CT. From Sept. 12 thru Nov. 1, the Knights distributed $1 million in immediate cash assistance from a special "Knights of Columbus Heroes Fund" to the widows and surviving family members of the more than 330 New York police, fire and EMT See Efficient markets theory. workers killed at the World Trade Center rescue efforts. Each family received a check for $3,000 from the Knights.
WHO: Father Robert J. Romano, NYPD Catholic Chaplain Carl A.
Anderson, Supreme Knight and CEO of the Catholic fraternal
service organization (Both will be available for questions.)
New Haven-area fire and police officials, color corps New
Haven civic officials
WHEN: Sunday, Feb. 10, at 10 a.m. (ET)
WHERE: St. Mary's Church
5 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT
NOTE: The media is welcome to this event. For more information
contact Tim Hickey at 203-772-2130, x. 303 (days until 4:30
p.m.); 203-933-6535 (eves); 203-804-3491 (cell) or
tim.hickey@kofc-supreme.com.
The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic family fraternal service organization. |
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