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Summer has arrived in Roselle Park, when the Church of the Assumption's annual St. Anthony Italian Family Feast returns for its 15th year. Once again it will be four days of faith, fun, family and friends, packed full of delicious homemade cooking, an Italian-style café, food venders, a beer and wine garden, non-stop entertainment and music (more p...

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Last Sunday (June 28th), I returned to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church in Ridgewood, Queens for the annual Festa della Madonna delle Grazie, Patroness of Montevago, Sicily.   Mass was celebrated in Italian with Father Italo Barozzi (visiting from Saint Mel's Parish in Flushing, Queens), followed by a procession through the neighborho...

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Saint Frances Cabrini was the first U.S. citizen and Italian American to be canonized. She was born on July 15, 1850, in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano – a small village near Milan, Italy. She was the youngest of 13 children, and her parents were wealthy cherry tree farmers. Frances worked alongside her parents and siblings while also attending school....

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  WTI Magazine #28    2014 May, 1Author : folclore.it      Translation by:   The picturesque procession of the "Serpari" (those who collect the snakes), also known as the most pagan rites among the Christian ones, is renewed every year on the first Thursday in May.    

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by Riccardo Chioni Come vuole la tradizione e nonostante la tentatrice finale dei Mondiali di calcio, Williamsburg ha registrato il pienone per la 127esima edizione della Festa del Giglio a cui ha partecipato anche il sindaco Bill de Blasio che ha contribuito a far danzare la Torre di 3 tonnellate. Italoamericani, visitatori d'ogni parte del Paes...

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By Giovanni di Napoli   Last Thursday, April 23rd, was the Feast of Saint George, and I had the great pleasure of attending a Tridentine Mass at historic Holy Innocents Church in Manhattan to celebrate it. Also known as Latin Mass or Old Mass, the ritual is so beautiful and moving that it simply must be experienced.   Invited by the U...

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By Giovanni di Napoli Saturday evening (June 13th), my friends and I headed to SoHo for the Festa di Sant'Antonio at the beautiful Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua (154 Sullivan St.). Mass was celebrated with Father Joe Lorenzo, followed by a procession through the bustling streets of Lower Manhattan.   Louise Acampora and the Red Mike...

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by Michelle Brunetti   The 140th Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Festival opened Monday night on the fairgrounds off Third Street. Billed as "the longest-running Italian festival in the U.S.," it is run by the independent nonprofit Our Lady of Mount Carmel Society. The society's all-male membership is limited to 50 and is open only to descendan...

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Our Lady of Loreto Church in Brownsville has been vacant for years, but some neighborhood residents are fighting to keep it from being torn down. Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens, which leases the property, says there are plans to demolish the church and turn it into affordable housing.   However, the Brownsville Cultural Coalitio...

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The Feast of Maria SS Lauretana has travelled a long and winding road from the narrow streets of a small Sicilian town to the open arms of a north suburban shopping center. The journey has been centuries in the making, and the path has been strewn with challenges but paved with faith. "Our feast has been celebrated for hundreds of years in Sicily...

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