Celebrating Jubilees

Photo by Darcy Fargo/North Country Catholic
Priests from around the diocese gathered to honor jubilarians, priests celebrating milestone years of service, at the annual Jubilee Mass held May 21 at the Cambria Resort in Lake Placid, part of the annual presbyteral assembly. Pictured are (from left) Father Garry Giroux (50 years), Father Christopher Looby (25 years), Father David DeLuca, MSC (60 years), Father Shane Lynch (25 years), Bishop Terry R. LaValley, Bishop James S. Wall of the Diocese of Gallup, New Mexico, keynote speaker at the assembly, Father Joseph Kanimea, MSC (25 years) and Father Steve Kovacevich (40 years). Unable to attend the Jubilee Mass were Father Arthur LaBaff (60 years), Father John Looby (60 years), Father Terrance Patterson (60 years), Father Peter Helfrich (50 years), and Father Jerome Pastores (40 years).Click here for the full story.