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St. Patrick’s Day celebrated early due to Holy Week
by Robert Delaney of The Michigan Catholic
Published March 21, 2008
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Velvet S. McNeil | The Detroit News
St. Patrick’s Parade grand marshal Patrick O’ Hara, parade chairman Mike Kelly, and Cardinal Adam Maida paint a shamrock at the Detroit Irish Plaza last Friday in Detroit’s Corktown district. |
Detroit – Most Holy Trinity Church was filled last Friday, March 14, for the Corktown church’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Mass.
They hadn’t got the date wrong – the liturgical celebration had to be moved, because an early Lent put March 17 in Holy Week.
Cardinal Adam Maida was principal celebrant, with the homily given by Belfast-born Fr. Stephen Rooney, pastor of St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Monroe.
Known as the “Sharin’ of the Green” Mass because the collection supports the parish’s outreach to the poor, this year’s event was chaired by Patrick and Mary Callaghan Lynch of Birmingham.
A “Sharin’ of the Green” reception after the Mass honored Samaritans of the Year Patricia Sullivan, Dr. Thomas Anan and Alanna Ali, and benefited the parish school.
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Larry Peplin | The Michigan Catholic
Cardinal Adam Maida pauses before entering Most Holy Trinity Church last Friday for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Mass. |
The United Irish Societies’ St. Patrick’s Parade last Sunday featured Irish and non-Irish participants as it made its way from Sixth Street up Michigan Avenue to the Gaelic League.
Patrick O’Hara, a member of St. Ambrose Parish, Grosse Pointe Park, was grand marshal for the 50th parade under UIS sponsorship. The parade actually got its start two years earlier, in 1956, under Fr. Patrick Sullivan at St. Monica Parish in Detroit.
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