OLPH celebrates its diversity
Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) held its third annual Family Night mass and barbecue in its schoolyard Monday, August 10 to celebrate the parish’s diversity.
“Tonight we celebrate our family—our parish family,” Father James Gilmour said during the mass. “We can help make this neighborhood more united.”
About 200 people attended the event that featured most of the church’s constituency, an uncommon occurrence for OLPH, which usually hosts separate masses in English, Spanish, Chinese and Vietnamese because of the area’s ethnic diversity. Father John McKenna said the Family Night was thus meant to gather those groups into one space for a celebration.