PASSAIC Bishop Sweeney made a pastoral visit to Our Lady of Mount Carmel (OLMC) Parish here on March 7, where he celebrated Mass to mark the Third Sunday of Lent.
OLMC’s history began when Bishop O’Connor sent a priest to care for the Italian Catholics in Passaic in 1905, and a small chapel was opened on Park Place. In 1912 a firehouse was purchased on McLean Street and renovated as a church. The present church was built in 1924.