- Mass
- Sept 15, St. Michael’s Cathedral, 4:00 pm
- Celebrant
- Bishop Timothy Anthony McDonnell
- Broadcast
- Chalice of Salvation, Sept 16, 10:00 am, WWLP 22 News
- Dinner dance
- Sept 29, Elks Lodge Pavilion, 6:00 pm
In the second year the Mass and the party came apart into two evenings, and the Mass got a much bigger room than the cathedral. Bishop Timothy Anthony McDonnell celebrated it on September 15 at St. Michael’s, and the next morning it went out at ten o’clock on Chalice of Salvation, the diocesan Mass that WWLP 22 News has carried across Western Massachusetts for decades. Anybody in the four counties who could not get to State Street could still be at that Mass.
Two weeks later, on September 29, the second annual Celebration of Hope dinner dance filled the Elks Lodge Pavilion on Tiffany Street. Catered pasta, a DJ, vendors and prizes, a cash bar, and the same twenty-dollar ticket.
The beneficiaries that year were Cancer House of Hope, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Rays of Hope at Baystate Medical Center, and the Sisters of Providence Mercy Care Center. Down the left margin of the flyer, in three separate lines: Live. Rejoice. Hope.
References
Links out to the outlets that covered these events and to the organizations that received the money. Event details on this page come from Celebration of Hope’s own flyers and Mass programs.
- MassLive · 2012 Springfield group to hold cancer Mass Open
- Diocese of Springfield Chalice of Salvation, the televised diocesan Mass Open
- Cancer House of Hope CHD's Cancer House of Hope, West Springfield Open
- Dana-Farber Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Open
- Rays of Hope Rays of Hope, Baystate Health Foundation Open