Get your tickets now for a celebration of San Gennaro!!!
Less than 2 months away...
Feast season is 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!
