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Father Tom McElroy, ss.cc.,
will be assisting at Queen of Peace Parish in Harlingen, Texas,
for another week while the pastor, Fr. Alfredo Garcia, ss.cc., is on
vacation. Fr. Tom, who served at Queen of Peace from 1970 to 1975,
is still well known among the parishioners and feels at home as he
presides over liturgies, celebrates weddings, visits and anoints the
sick in hospitals, and provides pastoral counseling. Over the years, he
has returned to the Diocese of Brownsville to preach retreats, and so
his bond among the faithful remains strong. When the Congregation
was invited to minister in the Rio Grande Valley early in the 1960’s, approximately
800 families helped Fr. Regis Kwiatkowski, ss.cc., the first pastor at
Queen of Peace, form the parish community. Today, Fr. Tom said that
there are more than 2,000 families.

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