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Ridgewood NJ, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church,in Ridgewood announces the winner of its Snowman building contest. It was difficult to choose with lots of very clever creations .
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Ridgewood NJ, Last week Sr. Marilyn Minter strummed some tunes for the religious education program at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, in Ridgewood . Sr. Marilyn’s energetic spirit had everyone on their feet!
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Ridgewood NJ, last week at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Ridgewood, about 75 junior high or middle School teens (7th & 8th graders) gathered for two service events.
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Ridgewood NJ, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, on Thursday, November 9th ,reported the rectory and youth ministry offices suffered an internet outage . Because of the internet outage, the live-streaming of their daily masses was also affected. Meaning you could not view the live-streaming of masses on any of the three platforms (Facebook, parish website or the parish Youtube page.) until the internet is restored.
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Ridgewood NJ, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Ridgewood, held a FROZEN TURKEY & FOOD DRIVE this Saturday, November 4th – 9am to 12noon.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church was looking for 15 frozen turkey breasts for the seniors at Ridgecrest. Fr. English Center, Paterson (one of OLMC recipients) feeds 20,000 people each month! This year volunteers collected 104 turkeys and 40 turkey breasts.
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Ridgewood NJ, almost a record… but not quite! Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church youth group open center had 103 teenagers! It might be a record for the highest number of teens this early in a school year.
The record to beat is 127, dating back to February 2018. If things continue as they are, I think we will break the record this program year!
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Ridgewood NJ, on September 6th , Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church held its first “Wednesday Open Center” for our youth group. 53 teenagers were present! We even had several new comers from the Class of 2027! Open Center is held every Wednesday night for all high school teens 7:30-9pm. The youth center is located in the school building. ( Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 1 Passaic St. Ridgewood ) .
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Ridgewood NJ, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Ridgewood received a very nice “Thank You” email today from Healing Meals, one of the organizations that receives the donations from our monthly food drive.
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Ridgewood NJ, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Ridgewood, is urging parishioners to not reply to text messages from Father Ron requesting a favor. Father Ron would never communicate such a need in that manner.
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Ridgewood NJ, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, in Ridgewood, is warning parishioners :BEWARE! DO NOT RESPOND TO ANY EMAILS CLAIMING TO BE FROM FR. RON REQUESTING ASSISTANCE OF ANY SORT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PURCHASING GIFT CARDS!
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Ridgewood NJ, Deanne J. Dunne, of Ridgewood, NJ passed away unexpectedly on Monday, November 29th at the age of 56. Deanne was born in New York City on January 14th, 1966, daughter to Adelaide M. Jason and Ronald E. Jason, both deceased.
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Ridgewood NJ, former Ridgewood Mayor Patrick (Pat) A. Mancuso dies at 84, known for his cigar smoking and meeting and greeting residents and merchants walking up and down East Ridgewood Avenue . Pat was husband of Marie S. Mancuso, he passed away Friday, October 28, 2022 at Embrace Hospice House.A Mass of Christian Burial will be 11:00 AM, Thursday, November 3, 2022, at St. Andrew Catholic Church. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Cemetery with military honors. The family will receive friends Wednesday, November 2nd at McMillan-Small Funeral Home in Myrtle Beach.
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