Father Peter E. Blessing This is Me

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1. 1. Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence

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   Published on: 11/22/2007   Last Visited: 1/3/2008

   Peter and Paul and St. Patrick's. SS. Peter and Paul was the larger of the two and was debt free. After talking the matter over with Bishop Joseph Fenwick of Boston, Bishop Tyler came over to Providence on the first Sunday of July 1844, and announced to the parishioners of SS. Peter and Paul his intention of taking up residence there in the small, three-room, wooden rectory behind the church.
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   Peter and Paul. Divisions within the Irish community in Providence and between one segment of the population and the Ulster-born priest who finished building SS. Peter and Paul's, Fr. John Corry, led to the building of a second, smaller church in Providence on Smith Hill, which was dedicated on Sunday, July 3, 1842 in honor of St. Patrick.
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   Peter and Paul, his cathedral church.
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   Peter and Paul, to whom Bishop O'Reilly had entrusted the task of building a private school for the parish, completed a three-story brick building on Lime Street in which the sisters would hold their classes.
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   Peter E. Blessing served as administrator.
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   Peter E. Blessing, the state chaplain of the Knights of Columbus, was invited to bless the SS William Tyler, a Liberty ship built in Portland, Maine, with funds raised by the Knights and named after the first Bishop of Hartford.

2. 2. The Diocese of Providence - Our History - Bishop Russell J. McVinney and the growth of the diocese

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   Published on: 11/17/2000   Last Visited: 1/18/2002

   Peter E. Blessing again served as administrator of the diocese until it was announced in June that Father Russell J. McVinney, a native Rhode Islander and the priest whom Bishop Keough had appointed as rector of Our Lady of Providence Seminary, had been chosen to be the fifth Bishop of Providence.

3. 3. www.providencevisitor.com

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   Published on: 1/1/2000   Last Visited: 3/1/2007

   Peter and Paul, his dilapidated cathedral church, and build a new, more fitting building. The panic of 1873 made the bishop's task of fund raising more difficult but he persisted nonetheless. About the same time that he raised the idea of constructing a new cathedral church, the bishop, who was accustomed to writing for the press, also raised the idea of beginning a journal that would represent the thought and sentiments of the Catholic community. Few, at the time he first suggested the idea, believed it was feasible because two earlier attempts to establish a Catholic paper had failed. The same spirit of faith and awareness of the needs of his diocese that drove him on to build a new cathedral also prompted the bishop to launch The Weekly Visitor, A Sunday School Magazine on Oct. 9, 1875.
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   As part of the reorganization, Conway was replaced as business manager by Edward J. Cooney, and as editor by a board of priests drawn from Providence, headed by the director of the Mission Band, Father Peter E. Blessing.
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   Under Father Blessing's direction and Cooney's efficient management, the Visitor regained the influence and esteem which it had enjoyed a decade earlier under Fathers Austin Dowling and William D. Kelly.
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   The improvement in the quality of the paper after Father Peter E. Blessing and the priests of the Diocesan Mission Band took charge prompted Catholics and others to take out an increasing number of subscriptions.
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   Under Father Blessing, the Visitor highlighted local news, particularly the work of the diocese's institutions, and attracted attention to the articles by the printing of pictures or sketches of the buildings that housed them.
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   Doran returned to say that Father Blessing wished to retire from the management of the paper "on account of nervousness."
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   However, in July 1911, the bishop agreed to a change and asked Father Michael F. O'Brien, another priest assigned to the Providence Apostolate, and who had worked with Father Blessing on the paper, to take over the editor's chair.
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   Father Blessing served on the committee which drafted the association's bylaws and delivered an address entitled "A Catholic Associated Press" in which he advocated the need for Catholic papers to publish news of the whole Christian world in addition to their local coverage. Father O'Brien would maintain the high standard set by Father Blessing.
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   Peter and Paul in Providence and then at St. Joseph's, Pawtucket. Like many priests ordained in the 1930s, he had an interest in social ministry or Catholic Action as it was then called. In 1941, he helped organize the Catholic Laymen's First Friday Club, which brought Catholics together to hear speakers and to discuss their faith, and served as its moderator until 1949. From 1946-49, he was also associated with the diocese's Social Action Institute which organized Labor Schools for labor and management.