SWARTSWOOD Our Lady of Mount Carmel (OLMC) Parish here welcomed Bishop Sweeney, who made a pastoral visit there and celebrated Mass marking the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time on Sept. 20.
The history of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish began in the 1940s, when people in the Swartswood area traveled to St. Joseph Church in Newton to attend Mass. On May 28, 1967, the first Mass was celebrated in the new church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.