St. Joachim, Cedarhurst

St. Joachim church is located at 614 Central Avenue, Cedarhurst, New York 11516, telephone 516-569-1845.  The parish website is linked here.  This is at the intersection of McGlynn Place.

Above is the Fatima shrine.

Across McGlynn Place, Kulanu, a service for children with special needs, purchased the parish school.
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This editor notes that the parishes of St. Joachim and St. Joseph have Jewish men as patron saints.

Our Lady of Good Counsel, Inwood

Our Lady of Good Counsel church is at the corner of Wanser Avenue and Church Street in Inwood, Long Island, about a half-mile east of Far Rockaway, Queens.  The mailing address is 68 Wanser Avenue, Inwood, NY 11096, telephone 516-239-0953. Inwood (not to be confused with Inwood, northern Manhattan) is in Nassau County. The above Mass schedule was photographed in March, 2012.

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In April, 2011, the Long Island Catholic reported that the three parishes of St. Joseph (Hewlett), St. Joachim (Cedarhurst), and Our Lady of Good Counsel (Inwood) would be placed in some sort of unified care without being merged.  In December, 2011, the Long Island Catholic reported that Father Moriarty, pastor of St. Joseph, would also be administrator of Our Lady of Good Counsel. "The parishes of St. Joseph, Hewlett, St. Joachim, Cedarhurst, and Our Lady of Good Counsel, Inwood, will work together to provide pastoral services."

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When the parish was established in 1910, the congregation was mostly Italian.  The devotion to Mary under the title Madonna del Buon Consilio arose in Genazzano, some thirty miles south of Rome, in the fifteenth century.

The bell dates from 1910.  To read the inscription, please click on the photo.

This statue honors Padre Pio.

Crossroads School for Children uses the former parish school on Henry Street.
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Bus Q113 from Jamaica stops at the corner, and the Lawrence railroad station is nearby. 

St. Ignatius Martyr, Long Beach

The mailing address of the parish of St. Ignatius Martyr is 721 West Broadway, Long Beach, NY 11561, telephone 516-432-0045.   The parish website, linked here, includes the Mass schedule and an excellent history of the parish.  The church's patron is St. Ignatius, third bishop of Antioch, martyred in Rome about 108 A.D.   He has left us seven letters.

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The above view looks east along West Penn Street, with the church steps on the southwest corner of West Penn Street and Grand Boulevard.  The tall building to the right of the church is the rectory, which faces West Broadway.  To the right of the rectory, in the gap and a short block south, is the Long Beach boardwalk, the wide beach, and the Atlantic Ocean.  As the shoreline runs almost east-west, the view of the ocean is south, and the next land is Turks Island in the Caribbean!

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Fortunately, the parish has placed a directional sign (with Sunday Mass schedule) on the Long Beach's principal street, Park Avenue, at Grand Boulevard, pointing four blocks south.

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Long Beach Catholic Regional School is at 735 West Broadway, Long Beach NY 11561, telephone 516-432-8900.  The school website is linked here.  Three parishes (St. Ignatius, St. Mary of the Isle, and Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal) sponsor the school.

The above views look east along West Broadway towards Grand Boulevard.

St. Boniface the Martyr, Sea Cliff

St. Boniface Martyr church stands on the northwest corner of Glen Avenue and Carpenter Avenue.  Its address is 145 Glen Avenue, Sea Cliff NY 11579, telephone 516-676-0676.  The parish website is linked here.  A very informative history page is linked here, with many, many topics.  I was particularly glad to see the chronology of the principals of Saint Boniface school and All Saints, as it helps people who try to remember who-followed-whom and when. 

The stained glass window at the right seems to answer the question, "Which St. Boniface the Martyr?" Apparently it is not the man martyred about 307, but rather the Englishman Boniface, Apostle to the Germans, who cut down a sacred oak, and was martyred in 754.  His body was brought to Fulda.

The parish has a religious education program and is one of five parishes sponsoring All Saints Regional Catholic School in Glen Cove.

The parish office is on the south side of Glen Avenue, facing the church. Bus route N21 along Glen Avenue connects this location with Flushing and Glen Cove, generally hourly.

St. Mary, Roslyn

The church of St. Mary faces Hempstead Harbor at the intersection of Bryant Avenue and Summit Place. Any photo may be enlarged by clicking on it.

The parish address is 110 Bryant Avenue, Roslyn NY 11576, telephone 516-621-2222.  

In early February, 2012, the Daily Eucharist is offered Monday-Friday in the church.  Saturday evening at 5 p.m., Mass is in the Hall downstairs, and at 7:15 in Spanish in the church.  Sundays, in the church at 9 and 11 a.m., in the Hall at 7:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. I suspect that Hall has step-free entrance from the parking lot, whereas the church entrance has many steps.

    Above, the rectory is seen from the church steps.

    The history of this St. Mary's parish in Roslyn is intertwined with that of St. Mary's, Manhasset, three miles to the west. The date of canonical establishment as a parish is 1871 here and 1912 for the Manhasset parish, but that is not the date of first Mass or first construction; each was a mission at some time.

    St. Mary's parish is one of five which sponsor All Saints Regional Catholic School in Glen Cove, five miles north.  The Sisters of Mercy taught in a parish school here for some years after 1952.  I do not know where the school was.

    Note that another St. Mary's exists in Roslyn, a child-healthcare agency from Bayside, Queens.
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    Bus route N21 passes the church on the way from Flushing to Glen Cove.  Only two or three blocks south of the church, the N20 offers service from Flushing to Hicksville.

Hymns

For some time, the richness of the hymns sung in church has piqued my curiosity.  By hymns, I include the psalms, the canticles, such as the Benedictus and the Magnificat, the ancient hymns, as the Trisagion, the hymns of St. Thomas Aquinas, those of John Wesley, and hymns of more recent times.  As Google's Blogger allows posts to be updated, I don't know where this post will lead.
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For starters, today we sang a hymn by Omer Westendorf, whose life was entirely in the 20th century, with a Welsh melody.  In searching for his biography, I came upon this most interesting site from Collegeville.

St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Wantagh

On June 19, 2022, the parish celebrated its 70th anniversary.

The church of St. Jane Frances de Chantal is located at 1309 Wantagh Avenue, Wantagh NY 11793, telephone 516-785-2333.  Its website is linked here.  The church is on the east side of the avenue, a half-mile south of Exit 28 of the Southern State Parkway.  It is also a mile north of the Wantagh Railroad Station.  

Archbishop Molloy established the parish in 1952.  By the 1980's, the first church suffered structural problems (as I recall, wood rot at the base of the supports), and this new church was opened in 1987.  For twenty years, a chapel, separated from the church by panels, existed to the left of the tabernacle.  In recent renovations that chapel was made part of the main body of the church.

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A school was built in the late 1950's, but in 1992, St. Jane Francis de Chantal joined three other parish schools to create St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Regional School in Bellmore.  In 2010-2011, twenty-eight children from St. Jane Frances de Chantal attended St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.   Religious education students at St. Jane Frances de Chantal number about 1,000.

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Jeanne Françoise de Chantal lived 1572-1641.  Another biography is linked here.