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Our Lady of Mount
Carmel Church
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9
a.m. - Noon;
1 p.m. - 5 p.m. |
| Address: 421 Clark
Street, Pueblo, CO 81003-3590 |
| Phone: 719
542-5952 * Fax: 719 542-2310 *
Email:
sarod9@aol.com |
| Administrator: Rev.
Matthew P. Wertin |
Summer Mass
Schedule: Saturdays: 4:30 p.m.; Sundays: 8:00
a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m. & 5:00 p.m.
* Holidays: 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m. & 11:00 a.m.
* Weekdays: 7:00 a.m. |
| Winter Mass
Schedule: Same as summer schedule. |
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| Our mission... |
| We are home where
those who belong fell welcomed and needed; a people expressing
faith in God and in one another; a community striving to follow
Jesus as we reach out beyond ourselves in service; a center of
prayer, learning and participation. |
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STAFF |
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| Rev.
Matthew P. Wertin, Administrator |
| Deacon Michael D.
Sanchez |
| John Grande,
Business Manager |
| Teresa Almeda, CRE
K-8 |
| Josie Marrufo - 9 -
Confirmation |
| Shirley A.
Rodriguez, Secretary/Bookkeeper |
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HISTORY |
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In the late nineteenth
century, Pueblo experienced a large influx of European immigrants who moved to
Pueblo to seek work in the steel mill and smelters. For the most part, the
immigrants formed isolated, close knit communities, many in the Grove area, near
the Arkansas River. It was there that they built their “national churches,”
churches that served the specific ethnic and cultural traditions of the various
Catholic immigrants. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel was one of those churches.
Established in 1901, it was ministered by Italian Jesuit priests who served the
Italian community. Later it also catered to the native Hispanic population.
Notable in the parish’s
history is the creation of Mt. Carmel Credit Union in 1943 by Fr. Charles
Murray, S.J. Originally located in the church basement, the credit union was
created so that families living in the areas of the Grove, Salt Creek, Smelter
Hill and Pepper Sauce Bottoms would have an economically.
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