The first Mass at the permanent home of St. Peter the Apostle Church in Carthage was celebrated on Saturday, April 9, 2022. The liturgy was for Palm Sunday. Glenmary Father Don Tranel, the pastor, who celebrated the Mass, blesses the space at the start of Mass.
As Glenmary Father Don Tranel looked out over his congregation at St. Peter the Apostle Church in Carthage to begin his homily, he quoted Dorothy from the “The Wizard of Oz”: “There’s no place like home.”
The Mass on Saturday, April 9, was the first to be celebrated at the congregation’s property on Upper Ferry Road in Carthage. Until then, the congregation, which began organizing in the summer of 2021, had been celebrating Mass at Carthage United Methodist Church.
“It had always been our desire to be in this facility for Holy Week, especially Easter,” Father Tranel said…. (full article available at tennesseeregister.com)