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JANUARY 12, 2009
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The children who all made
up the cast of the Epiphany play
present on the stage of the gymnasium at Our Lady
of Mount Carmel.
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Immediately after the Christmas play of January 6, Father
Scott announced that it was time to move into the new chapel.
The men started unscrewing the kneelers from the pews so
that they could drill new holes, so that the kneelers could
be comfortably spaced back from the pew in front. Then they
moved them into place, followed by the organ and the altar.
Meanwhile, the women cleaned the pews, washed the floors,
and washed and rehung the light fittings that had become
covered with dust during the remodeling process. It was
two hours of intense activity.
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| Seminarian,
Mr. Lawrence Barrett and teacher,
Mr. Michael Carnes, carrying a pew into the chapel. |
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Students
prepare the temporary altar in the sanctuary.
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| Father
Scott tries out the new confessional for size,
after having moved a kneeler in. |
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Student,
Brian Paraschuk,
cleans the ceiling fans in the new chapel
as other students and parishioners clean in the background. |
The next day, Wednesday January 7, the first school Mass
was celebrated in Our Lady of Mount Carmel chapel, and on
January 8 the new confessional was first put into use. On
Saturday January 10 a work day took place, in which the
upstairs high school boys’ classroom was all cleaned
out of the innumerable storage and junk that had accumulated
in it. Also, the same day, arrived the altar, a practically
new construction of parishioner and master wood craftsman,
Andrew Slinko. The deep wood stain and contrasting gold
etching make it the center of the chapel as an altar must
be.
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The first Asperges before
Sunday Mass.
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It was on Sunday January 11, feast of
the Holy Family that the first Sunday Mass was celebrated
in the chapel, and the first Mass celebrated on the altar.
Before beginning the Mass, Father Scott proceded with a
simple blessing of the chapel, that it might be the holy
place, the spiritual home and refuge for the parishioners
of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The Mass was a Missa Cantata,
for it was on this Sunday that the new Gregorian schola
made its début, albeit a very humble one. Directed
by Our Lady of Mount Carmel’s new High School Math
and Science teacher, Mr. Michael Carnes, from Indiana, it
consists essentially of several of the Academy boys, and
will guarantee that a High Mass be sung henceforth every
Sunday.
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| A
view of the sanctuary
during the prayers of blessing of the chapel
that preceded the first High Mass on January 11. |
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A view of some
of the students and faculty of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Academy during the first school Mass on Wednesday
January 7, during the singing of a hymn.
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A close up of the new altar
built by one of the parishioners and installed on
Saturday January 10.
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