Our lady of the Scapular and the Origin of the Carmelites in New York
Our lady of the Scapular Church
Our lady of the Scapular Church was formed in 1889 by the Irish Carmelite priests.
A loft in a Tobacco factory on First Avenue and 29th Street was temporarily hired, and here on April 1889, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was for the first time offered in the new Carmelite Parish.
Origin of the St Elias Province of the Order Of Carmelites.
It is due to the memory of those who “Have gone before us signed with the sign of the faith” to say they faced their many arduous duties cheerfully. The charism that handed over to the next generation was taken seriously by the followers and the Carmelites flourished in United States. The full habit of the Friars is brown with a white cloak, this obtaining for them the name of White Friars.
The Irish Carmelites introduced into the United States in 1889.
Early in the year 1887, the Rev. Fathere J.M. McMahon, of New York, whose name is imperishably associated with the Catholic University of Washington, wrote to provincial of the Irish Carmelites who resided in Dublin at the motherhouse for some information concerning the history of the order and especially with regard to its antiquity and to the fact that it has years been in a most particular was identifies with devotion to Our Blessed Lady. A correspondence sprung up in consequence between Fr McMahon and Fr of the Irish province, which ultimately resulted in an invitation of an informal nature being extended to very Rev. Fr. John Barkley and his conferrers to come to New York and, if possible participate in the work of the Diocese. The Very Rev. Michael Moore, then Assistant General of the Order, accepted the invitation and subsequently spent some time with Fr McMahon and the ecclesiastical authorities, discussing possible plans for the introduction of the Order into the New York Diocese.
The late Most Rev. Archbishop Corrigan granted the necessary permission for a foundation on the east side of the city in 29th Street, though it had been father McMahon’s hope that the scene of their labors should be elsewhere. All who are familiar with diocesan topography of New York, know that the present Carmelite parish is merely the Eastern end of the great Parish of St Stephen’s and includes in its limits the principal charity hospital of the city- Bellevue.
Early in the year 1889 that the first band of Irish Carmelites reached New York. There were four in numbers, viz., Rev. Fathers John Barkley, Paul McDonnell, Edward Southwell and Michael Daly. The Our Lady of Scapular Church blessed and dedicated on December 22,1889.
(Article source:- The Catholic Church in the United States of America,1908,Vol.I the Religious Communities. P.111)
Our lady of the Scapular Church was formed in 1889 by the Irish Carmelite priests.
A loft in a Tobacco factory on First Avenue and 29th Street was temporarily hired, and here on April 1889, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was for the first time offered in the new Carmelite Parish.
Origin of the St Elias Province of the Order Of Carmelites.
It is due to the memory of those who “Have gone before us signed with the sign of the faith” to say they faced their many arduous duties cheerfully. The charism that handed over to the next generation was taken seriously by the followers and the Carmelites flourished in United States. The full habit of the Friars is brown with a white cloak, this obtaining for them the name of White Friars.
The Irish Carmelites introduced into the United States in 1889.
Early in the year 1887, the Rev. Fathere J.M. McMahon, of New York, whose name is imperishably associated with the Catholic University of Washington, wrote to provincial of the Irish Carmelites who resided in Dublin at the motherhouse for some information concerning the history of the order and especially with regard to its antiquity and to the fact that it has years been in a most particular was identifies with devotion to Our Blessed Lady. A correspondence sprung up in consequence between Fr McMahon and Fr of the Irish province, which ultimately resulted in an invitation of an informal nature being extended to very Rev. Fr. John Barkley and his conferrers to come to New York and, if possible participate in the work of the Diocese. The Very Rev. Michael Moore, then Assistant General of the Order, accepted the invitation and subsequently spent some time with Fr McMahon and the ecclesiastical authorities, discussing possible plans for the introduction of the Order into the New York Diocese.
The late Most Rev. Archbishop Corrigan granted the necessary permission for a foundation on the east side of the city in 29th Street, though it had been father McMahon’s hope that the scene of their labors should be elsewhere. All who are familiar with diocesan topography of New York, know that the present Carmelite parish is merely the Eastern end of the great Parish of St Stephen’s and includes in its limits the principal charity hospital of the city- Bellevue.
Early in the year 1889 that the first band of Irish Carmelites reached New York. There were four in numbers, viz., Rev. Fathers John Barkley, Paul McDonnell, Edward Southwell and Michael Daly. The Our Lady of Scapular Church blessed and dedicated on December 22,1889.
(Article source:- The Catholic Church in the United States of America,1908,Vol.I the Religious Communities. P.111)
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