Bishop celebrates Ash Wednesday at Paterson medical center #Catholic - <img width="150" height="150" src="https://beaconnj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/AshWed_1698-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" /><p><strong>Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney visited</strong> St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, N.J., on Feb. 18, to celebrate Mass for Ash Wednesday, which marks the first day of Lent. He blessed and placed ashes in the mark of a cross on the foreheads of St. Joseph’s staff during Mass. Afterward, Bishop Sweeney visited patients’ rooms to give them ashes and pray with them.</p>
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Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney visited St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, N.J., on Feb. 18, to celebrate Mass for Ash Wednesday, which marks the first day of Lent. He blessed and placed ashes in the mark of a cross on the foreheads of St. Joseph’s staff during Mass. Afterward, Bishop Sweeney visited patients’ rooms to give them ashes and pray with them.
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Bishop celebrates Ash Wednesday at Paterson medical center #Catholic –
Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney visited St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, N.J., on Feb. 18, to celebrate Mass for Ash Wednesday, which marks the first day of Lent. He blessed and placed ashes in the mark of a cross on the foreheads of St. Joseph’s staff during Mass. Afterward, Bishop Sweeney visited patients’ rooms to give them ashes and pray with them.
BEACON PHOTOS | JOE GIGLI
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