46 Spirit-filled youth confirmed at Hawthorne parish

St. Anthony Parish in Hawthorne, N.J., on Sept. 19 welcomed Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney, who celebrated Mass. During the liturgy, he administered the sacrament of Confirmation to 46 parish youths.


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Father Stephen Prisk, pastor of St. Anthony’s and vice chancellor of the Paterson Diocese in New Jersey; Father Brendon Harfmann, parochial vicar of the parish; Msgr. Raymond Kupke, a retired diocesan priest, pastor emeritus of St. Anthony’s, and the diocesan archivist, and Father Frank Lennie, chaplain at DePaul Catholic High School in Wayne, N.J., and a former parochial vicar at St. Anthony’s, concelebrated the Mass.

Brian Reilly, a diocesan seminarian from St. Anthony’s, was the master of ceremonies of the liturgy.

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