NICHOLVILLE, NY
10-26-2012
The
new priory for St.
Therese's Church and Academy is located three hours north of Syracuse, New
York, half an hour south of the Canadian border an hour
north of the beautiful Adirondack Mountains and Lake
Placid.
The SSPX got there from many families ...the Fullerton Family
and others were served by a priest who would say the
traditional Mass in the Fullerton's home in Hopkinton. Later
they built a chapel on their property. Mrs. Fullerton
also taught her own children at home and later other
families with children began to request to attend and so
a school developed and was built on some property
donated in Nicholville in the mid 1980s. Later a chapel
was built in 1998.
The priests of the SSPX began to serve the chapel from
Ridgefield, CT along with the circuit of Glens Falls,
Syracuse, Binghamton, NY.
More
recently after Syracuse was made a priory, a priest from
there would drive
to Nicholville and Glens Falls each weekend to provide
the sacraments.
This
was a long circuit of nine hours, thus establishing a priory in Nicholville will facilitate priests serving
this chapel and other chapels, and will greatly reduce the
amount of travel for the Syracuse priory priests, so
they may
devote more time to their work.
Nicholville has a small grade school and a parish of
about 275 persons. The priests residing at the priory will be able to devote
time to establishing a community life with daily Mass,
a public prayer routine of Prime, Sext, Compline and the
rosary in the chapel, and in addition to teaching in the
school, fulfill the dependent Mass circuits.
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