Pastoral visit on Christmas Eve

CHRISTMAS SPIRIT  Bishop Serratelli greets a baby at Straight and Narrow along with Father Charles Waller, director of pastoral care, during the Bishop's annual pastoral visit Dec. 24.

PATERSON  Bishop Serratelli made his annual Christmas Eve pastoral visit to Straight and Narrow, an agency of diocesan Catholic Charities, leading a prayer service and blessing clients currently in recovery at the drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Paterson. Because the clients are in recovery, they are unable to visit relatives at home during the Christmas season. During the prayer service, the Straight and Narrow gospel choir, which performs at parishes around the diocese at Masses each weekend, led all those in attendance in traditional Christmas hymns.