August 2000 Archives

By Lorraine Kiefer

MALAGA - A garden of love and beauty can be found where Routes 40 and 47 intercept in the small town of Malaga, where a new rosary garden is part of St. Mary's Parish.
Father Jerome Romanowski , pastor, said that the project, once a dream. became a reality through tile diligent planning and hard work of the committee and other parish helpers. The committee includes members Theresa DiMatteo. Cindy Merckx and Doris Ruppel. Several of tire parish youth can be seen working on the garden also. Donations of time and money by many parishioners and friends as well as tile spiritual guidance and inspiration of the pastor also helped make the garden a reality. St. Mary's has been designated a Jubilee church for the year 2000. This garden, part of the year's celebration, contains a statue of our Lady of the Rosary to greet all who visit, as well as a fountain and pool, several arbors, benches and plaques depicting the joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries.

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Why Save St. Mary's?

What's true for OL Queen of Peace, Pitman & Assumption, Wildwood Crest is also true for St. Mary's Malaga:

"The people in Pitman bought that ground and built that church and it belongs to them. You can't just take it away."

-Anthony Mecca, Queen of Peace Parish, Pitman (also on the slate for closure), May 8, 2008

"This is God's house. Let us live here with God as we've done all these years."

-Fred Spiewak, Assumption Parish, Wildwood Crest, June 11, 2008

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