KEEPING A PROMISE!!!!
St. John the Baptist Church in Pittston. (Photo: LuLac archives).
Your blog editor who has been more than insufferable on this subject in front of the monument. (Photo:Mrs. LuLac).
IN MEMORY OF.......
Tomorrow afternoon there will be a dedication for a monument on the site of the Old St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, School and Convent. When the Church closed in 2008 many people were angry. As you have read here many times, I was beside myself that the church of my immigrant ancestors was torn down.
At the closing Mass, Monsignor Bendik said there’d be some sort of recognition. I didn’t believe it because the older I get, the less I expect of people. I had lunch with a good friend recently and I said, “You think the best of people and get disappointed. I think the worst of them and get surprised”.
Much to my delight and surprise, there is a monument on the grounds of the church. My sister and her husband as well as my wife decided to go in on a contribution to have our parents name put on the stone.
It gets dedicated Sunday, November 3rd after the 12:15PM Mass. Monsignor Bendik will officiate.
I thank him for keeping his promise and undertaking this extraordinary tribute to all Slovak families that funded that church. I’d also like to thank the readers of this blog whose patience I tried through the years. Thanks for your indulgence.
