Church of the Holy Family (New Rochelle, New York)
The Church of the Holy Family is a Roman Catholicparish located in New Rochelle, New York. Founded in 1913, the Church of the Holy Family has undergone expansion and re-construction of its physical church over the years. The church is ethnically and linguistically diverse, reflecting the demographics of its surrounding area, as it draws considerable numbers of Caribbean, Southeast Asian, African, and Italian parishioners. As of 2013, the church served around 1,200 families and educated 380 children in grades four through seven in religious education programs.
History
The Church of the Holy Family was founded in 1913 as an independent parish in response to overcrowding at St. Gabriel's Church and a growing Catholic population of Irish and Germans in the North End of New Rochelle, which was then predominantly farmland. At the time of its establishment, the church had no dedicated physical structure. The inaugural pastor, Fr. Andrew Roche, celebrated mass in a former butcher shop and lived at the College of New Rochelle, traveling back and forth by foot.
The Gospels speak little of the life of the Holy Family in the years before Jesus’ public ministry. All that is known are the Circumcision of Jesus, the sojourn in Egypt, the return to Nazareth, and the Finding in the Temple. The parents were apparently observant Jews, making the pilgrimage to Jerusalem every year with other Jewish families (Luke. 2:41).
The Feast of the Holy Family is a liturgical celebration in the Catholic Church in honor of Jesus of Nazareth, his mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and his foster father, Saint Joseph, as a family. The primary purpose of this feast is to present the Holy Family as a model for Christian families. Since the 1969 revision of the General Roman Calendar, the feast is celebrated on the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, the Sunday between Christmas Day and New Year's Day (both exclusive), or when there is no Sunday within the Octave (if both Christmas Day and the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God are Sundays), it is held on 30 December, a Friday in such years. It is a holy day of obligation only if it falls on a Sunday.
Holy Family Church (disambiguation), multiple places, including variations on the name such as Cathedral of the Holy Family, Church of the Holy Family, etc.
It shows the Holy Family on the left, and two donors in rich clothes on the right, all adoring the Christ Child in the centre. In the background is a fanciful landscape with the Magi riding towards the main scene.
The British (4/21/25) noted, “During his recent period in hospital, he kept up his telephone calls to the HolyFamily church in Gaza, a nightly routine since 9 October 2023.” The Toronto-based ...
“We did not get permission,” said Roger Salameh, who works for a nongovernmental organization and commented that, at 37 years old, he has never been to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher ... parish church.
Every day since the beginning of the war 18 months ago, the pope rang the HolyFamilyChurch in Gaza City around 8pm, FatherGabriel Romanelli, the pastor of the besieged territory’s only Catholic parish, told CNN.
Kamal has had to shelter since the start of the war in the same Catholic church compound in Gaza City – the HolyFamilyChurch – that his wife and daughter were shot and killed by an Israeli sniper in.Recommended Stories.
The first time he spoke to PopeFrancis during the pontiff’s nightly calls to the HolyFamilyCatholic church in Gaza City, the congregant George Antone, 44, found himself at a loss for words.
‘Daily’ calls to Gaza church ... I loved him and will pray for him.” Fatima was referring to the pope Francis’ near-daily calls to the Church of the HolyFamily, Gaza’s Roman Catholic church ... A holy soul now at rest, but still walking with the wounded.
He also was an advocate for freeing the hostages, meeting with their families during the war ... at the HolyFamilyChurch, the only Catholic church in Gaza, to hear what is happening to the nearly 600 people sheltering at the facility.
