Bishop celebrates Mass, distributes ashes at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center

PATERSON  Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney celebrated Mass in the chapel of St. Joseph’s University Medical Center here on Ash Wednesday, March 2, the first day of Lent, where he blessed and placed ashes on the foreheads of employees during Mass. Afterward, the Bishop visited patients’ rooms at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, a state designated specialized children’s hospital at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, to give them ashes and to pray with them.