As I look back, I am so glad I lived through the pre-Vatican II church at Holy Rosary Parish in Jersey City. This close-knit community shaped my faith and nurtured my priestly vocation.
“It was like living in another world,” said Sister Ascenza Tizzano, the Mother General of the Religious Teachers Filippini, a young sister back then. “I always say that we lived in a golden age and didn’t know it!”
But that changed radically after Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council…