City of New York Father Edward J Quinnan, SJ Mount Manresa Jesuit Retreat House 239 Fingerboard Road Staten Island NY 10305-3792 May 23, 2003 Dear Father Quinnan, S.J. I would like to take this opportunity to…
Video: Chef Louis and Mt. Manresa Jesuits Cater to Hungry Hurricane Sandy Survivors Read more: http://www.dvidshub.net/video/281871/chef-louis-and-mt-manresa-jesuits-cater-hungry-hurricane-sandy-survivors#.U15lpfmzEk0#ixzz30BvXtH3m Executive Chef Louis Marfoglio tells the story of how Mt. Manresa Jesuit Retreat House and his catering staff served hot meals to Hurricane Sandy…
For more than a century, rich and poor Catholics alike came to Mount Manresa, a Jesuit retreat center on Staten Island a mile from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. From bricklayers to lawyers, from the poet Joyce Kilmer to Malcolm Wilson, the…
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Mount Manresa is a landmark to New York Catholics Letters to the Editor/Staten Island Advance By Letters to the Editor/Staten Island Advance Staten Island Advance on April 11, 2014 at 8:43 AM, updated April 11, 2014 at 8:44 AM By…
Mount Manresa, sacred ground that it is, must be saved Letters to the Editor/Staten Island Advance By Letters to the Editor/Staten Island Advance Staten Island Advance on October 06, 2013 at 8:09 AM, updated October 06, 2013 at 8:10 AM…
Mount Manresa should be Island’s 9/11 memorial Letters to the Editor/Staten Island Advance By Letters to the Editor/Staten Island Advance Staten Island Advance on May 17, 2013 at 4:07 PM, updated May 17, 2013 at 4:08 PM By CHARLOTTE…
The grotto is a historically significant structure at Mount Manresa, the first permanent retreat house for laymen in the United States, founded on September 11, 1911. The structure of grotto was built in 1860, by previous estate owner, businessman Louis…
Mount Manresa is too important to let it be turned into townhouses Letters to the Editor/Staten Island Advance By Letters to the Editor/Staten Island Advance on March 09, 2014 at 8:05 AM, updated March 09, 2014 at 8:12 AM JIM SCARCELLA OCEAN BREEZE…
Mount Manresa is a treasure that must be saved Letters to the Editor/Staten Island Advance By Letters to the Editor/Staten Island Advance on February 28, 2014 at 6:58 PM, updated February 28, 2014 at 7:17 PM By EILEEN MONREALE GREAT KILLS Mount Manresa…
Published on National Catholic Reporter (http://ncronline.org) Paradise lost: Jesuits sell oldest retreat house, pristine forest to developers Jamie Manson | Oct. 23, 2013 Grace on the Margins With almost 80 percent of its population identifying as Catholic, Staten Island, N.Y., seems an unlikely setting…
One of the first retreatants was a World War-I soldier named Joyce Kilmer wrote a famous poem called “Trees” in 1913, after visiting there before he died in battle. Many students have learned this poem in English classes even today:…
Photos: Loading Photo Gallery Diane C. Lore/Staten Island Advance By Diane C. Lore/Staten Island Advance on August 03, 2013 at 5:23 PM, updated August 03, 2013 at 11:59 PM STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Members of the Committee to Save Mount Manresa, who walked…
Rosary leader rues the demise of Staten Island’s Mount Manresa (photos) Staten Island group prays for open doors at Mount Manresa View the Slideshow >> (Gallery by Hilton Flores) Maura Grunlund | grunlund@siadvance.com By Maura Grunlund | grunlund@siadvance.com Email the author | Follow on…
New York City: Five Years After 9/11 By Peter Feuerherd Five years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, survivors discuss that fateful day and how it changed their lives. Q U I C K S C A…
Seminarian’s vocation inspired by Franciscan killed on 9/11 By MICHAEL WOJCIK News Editor SPARTA – A tall man, sharply dressed in a fireman’s dress uniform with neatly combed hair, rushes into Mount Manresa Jesuit Retreat House on Staten Island, N.Y. Flustered,…
When the Towers Fell by Sr. Maureen Skelly, SCH I have been a police chaplain in New York City since 1996. For the most part, my duties were to visit police personnel who were hospitalized and some routine counseling. On…
THE REV. JACK RYAN NEW YORK — It was Sept. 13 when Jimmy Luongo called for the priest. The Fresh Kills Landfill had reopened the day before and Luongo was the police investigator charged with making sense of tons of World Trade Center…
Mount Manresa Jesuit Retreat House on Staten Island was deeply touched and affected by the tragedy of September 11. The house became a center for caring and grief counseling. Within two hours of the attacks, the retreat house was inundated…