Lowell Irish held an event at St. Patrick Church Oct. 6 to celebrate several accomplishments and thank members of the community who made each of them possible.
This is the sixth in a series of articles profiling the seven men who will be ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Boston at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on May 21.
BOSTON Summer is a time when many communities parishes, religious societies, neighborhoods, or entire cities hold events that are staples of their local culture. In areas with deep Catholic immigrant roots, honoring a patron saint is often intertwined with celebrating cultural heritage. But in the age of the coronavirus, communities have had to reconsider whether to hold their annual celebrations.
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French Mass celebrant Father Kenneth Healey, SM, processes in followed by Bishop Robert Hennessey of the Merrimack Region. Pilot photo/courtesy Patricia Hardy
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When COVID-19 began shutting America down in March of 2020, Lowell s Franco-American Day Committee was busy planning its 50th Franco-American Festival, including a gala 50th-anniversary celebration and its annual French Mass and June 24 raising of Quebec s flag at Lowell City Hall. Those plans were all postponed as weeks went by, the pandemic worsened, and finally, the 2020 Franco Festival had to be canceled. The committee stopped meeting and waited with everyone else for the development of vaccines that would make even a minimal 2021 Festival possible.