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a celebration of San Gennaro!!! Plus a Novena to begin today...
Feast season is officially upon us so we hope you will join us for our 2nd Annual Celebration of the Feast of San Gennaro. This year we will be joined by Fr. John Perricone!
“It’s mid-September and the air is filled with the smell of sausage and peppers and fresh frying zeppole, because 'a festa 'e tutte 'e feste'—'The Festival of All Festivals' has arrived!
For eleven days each September, thousands descend on Mulberry Street in Manhattan's Little Italy for the Feast of San Gennaro and this year we a bringing are little taste of Napoli and NYC to Tampa with our inaugural Celebration of San Gennaro…”
The San Gennaro “Festival of all Festivals” is one of the great inspirations for the Fraternal Society of St John the Apostle so we hope you will join us on Thursday, September 19th when we welcome Fr. Perricone with Vespers, Benediction, Confession, the Rosary, and of course a fantastic Italian-American meal courtesy of Felice’s Italian Pork Store & Deli for a night of spiritual enrichment, good food, drink, entertainment, and fellowship.
Fr. John A. Perricone is a Roman Catholic priest and an adjunct professor of philosophy at Iona University in New Rochelle, New York. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated from Seton Hall University, completed his master’s degree in biblical studies at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Mahwah, New Jersey, and was ordained to the priesthood at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Newark, New Jersey in 1976. He completed a second master’s degree in Dogmatic Theology at St. John’s University, New York in 1981. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Medieval Philosophy at Fordham University, New York.
In addition to Iona University, he has held teaching positions at St. Francis College (Brooklyn, NY), LaSalle University (Philadelphia, PA), Dominican College (Orangeburg, NY), and St. John’s University (Jamaica, NY).
In 1989, he founded Christifdelis, a New York City based organization that assisted Catholics in their spiritual and doctrinal formation. In 1996, Father Perricone and the organization arranged for the celebration of a Solemn High Pontifical Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City; the first time in a quarter century for the Latin Tridentine Mass to be celebrated by a Cardinal of Curial rank in a premier archdiocese. From 1996-2008 he was Editor and Publisher of Excelsis, a bi-monthly periodical of theology, philosophy and Catholic opinion from the perspective of the authentic teaching of the Catholic Church and the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. In 2002, he was co-founder and Vice-President of The Montfort Academy (Mount Vernon, NY), a private academy, grades 9 through 12, anchored in a classical curriculum with Roman Catholicism at its core.
Be a sponsor, buy a table, or get your tickets today to help us renew this great tradition of our Faith!
As a note your previously purchased season tickets your season ticket will of course be honored for our final two events of the 2024 season.
Please contact us with any questions via (813) 720-7002 or don@orricosc.com.
See you in September for 'a Festa 'e Tutte 'e Feste' with Fr John Perricone and the Fraternal Society of St John the Apostle!
Finally, we hope you will join us in a Novena beginning today, June 15th and concluding on St John’s Eve, June 23rd. We have been asked to pray this novena by dear friends of our Apostolate for a special intention occurring in the next 10 days. We hope you will bookmark this and join us in prayer.
Novena to St John the Baptist
O Glorious St. John the Baptist, of those born of women the greatest of prophets (Luke vii , 28); thou, though sanctified from thy mothers womb and most innocent, didst nevertheless will to retire into the desert, there to practice austerities and penance; obtain for us from our Lord the grace to be detached, at least in the affections of our hearts, from all earthly treasure, and to practice Christian mortification with interior recollection and a spirit of holy prayer.
Pater, Ave, Gloria.
O Most zealous Apostle, who, without working any miracle on others, but solely by the example of thy life of penance and the power of thy words, didst draw after thee crowds, in order to prepare them to worthily receive the Messiah, and listen to His heavenly teaching; grant that it may be given to us also, by the example of a holy life and the practice of good works, to lead many souls to God, and, above all, those who have been enveloped in the darkness of error and ignorance, and led astray by vice.
Pater, Ave, Gloria.
Unconquered martyr, who for the honour of God and the salvation of souls, didst, with heroic constancy, and at the cost of life itself, withstand the impious Herod, reproving him openly for his bad and dissolute life; obtain for us a brave and generous heart, so that, overcoming all human respect, we may boldly profess our faith, and follow the teaching of our divine master Jesus Christ.
Pater, Ave, Gloria.
V. Pray for us, St John the Baptist.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray.
O God, who hast made this day worthy of honour in the commemoration of St. John, grant to Thy people the grace of spiritual joys, and direct the minds of all the faithful into the way of eternal salvation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
