Hoosick Falls, New York
This weekend I drove to upstate to New York to Immaculate Conception parish in Hoosick Falls. Fr. Tom Zelker, the pastor, was away and I took all the masses at Immaculate Conception and at another church where Fr.Zelker presides on Sunday morning, in Cambridge, NY.
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| Hoosick Falls is an old 19th-century town that retains much of its original charm and architecture. The Catholic church is located on Main Street in a cluster with three other churches. |
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| The nave of the church is traditional but well preserved and quite functional. |
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| The church sanctuary is more modern, especially in the rounded baldacchino raised over the tabernacle. |
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| Next door is a large parish house used for both the rectory and the church offices. |
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| After a 9:00 AM mass at Immaculate Conception in Hoosick, Falls, I drove ten miles north again to Cambridge and had a mass with a delightful community at St. Patrick's Church. |
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| On the return trip to Maryknoll, I stopped to visit LeRoy and Barbara Cole whose home in Staatsburg was just a few minutes off the parkway I was using. LeRoy attended St. Thomas Seminary in Kentucky, where I also studied. We had not met there but had made contact on a seminary mailing list and now had an opportunity to meet in person. |
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