Our Lady of Mount Virgin

My Friends:

So glad you’re taking the time to get to know us. I pray that you and your family are all safe and healthy during this unprecedented time that is affecting the lives of so many. 

Who are we at Mount Virgin?  What are we about?
We’re about open doors.  And open minds. And open hearts. 

Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, whatever you’ve done, whatever you’re going through, wherever you find yourself today on the journey of faith, you are welcome here.

This is a place to belong. This is a place to become. 

This is a place to make friends--and to make progress ...  MORE

This event is indeed a blessing to our parish. There was a cost in order to secure this special time.
The St. Pio Foundation requests a $2,000.00 offering. The offering goes to the proper, safe and respectful delivery and return of His Sacred Relics. In addition, it also helps to support the good works of continuing the spread of devotion to this great intercessor. I humbly ask you for your generous support in this regard.
Please print and complete the form linked below and your offering amount and return it by mail or drop off to the rectory at 188 MacArthur Ave. Garfield, NJ 07026 or by way of the Sunday offerings in a sealed envelope marked: Saint Pio.

Thank you,
I assure you my gratitude and prayers.
May St. Pio intercede for all of us.
God bless you, Fr. Peter

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Msgr. Hilary Franco was ordained a priest in Rome at the rather young the age of 22. He received a doctorate in Biblical Theology before the age of 24 from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. He attended Fordham University in New York, where he earned a Master’s Degree in Sociology. Later, he earned another degree in Canon Law at the Lateran University.

Msgr. Franco served in the Parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, St. Dominic’s in the Bronx, and Assumption Church in Staten Island. From 1962, he was Assistant to Bishop Fulton. J. Sheen at the National Office of the Propagation of the faith in New York. He worked on the preparation of the conciliar documents for the Second Vatican Council and attended as “peritus”.
In 1967, he was called to serve in the Diplomatic Corps of the Vatican at the Apostolic Delegation in Washington D.C. The following year, he was named an official of the Prefecture of the Economic Affairs of the Holy See in the Vatican. After two years, he was named Official of the Congregation for the Clergy and was in charge of the English desk for 24 years.
He was named Monsignor in 1971 and Prelate in 1981. He was pastor of St. Augustine’s Parish in Ossining, New York, until 2013.
He served as Judge of the Interdiocesan Ecclesiastical Tribunal and currently serves as adviser at the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations.

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