July 16,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, JULY 16TH – FEAST OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL! The word “Carmel” in Aramaic means “Garden of God” are refers to the mountain in northern Palestine where the Prophet Elijah defeated the pagan prophets. It is also where a community of Christian hermits lived in the early beginnings of Christianity. Later, after the group was exiled into Europe following the Crusades, this order of hermits was dying out. St. Simon Stock, the group’s leader at the time, received a vision of a woman dressed in a brown robe who gave him what is now known as the brown scapular. She instructed him to have the members or the order dress in the brown robes as she was and to distribute the scapular. In doing so, their group would continue to spread the Gospel message. When Stock asked who she was, the woman (who of course was Mary) stated, I am the Lady of Mount Carmel, referring to the mountain range where the group originated from. From that time forward the group wore the brown robes, distributed the brown scapular, and the order still exists to this day. We call them Carmelites! From that time forward May has had the title, Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
DID YOU KNOW…One of the most popular names for Catholic Churches in the state of New Jersey is OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL! There are twenty in the state with that name!
Desecrated by a dirty monolithic public transit parking Garage .Hudson Street will be a daily and evening nightmare.For who ? the developers and money changers and restaurants who dream of some second seating revenue..look at the new open fronted sports bar on top block of Ridgewood Ave..how might that have been approved..looks like Hoboken
more of that to come and it won’t be good..
did Hans the bigot get invited ?