With Father Dolan is his good friend Father Lambert Luna, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, who preached at the anniversary mass.
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The assembly dressed in red, outside church after mass, at the moment of the balloon release.
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Mary Bardgett, chair of the parish's Fiftieth Anniversary Committee, presented Father Dolan a pillow made from a historic parish soccer jersey. Limited numbers of these collectors' items will be on sale at the parish picnic, Wedneday, June 13.
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