Published December 26. 2016 11:55AM
The Most Rev. Bishop John O. Barres celebrates the 5 p.m. Mass with the parishioners in the Sacred Heart Church in Palmerton on Christmas Eve. After Sacred Heart, he celebrated Midnight Mass at the Cathedral Church of St. Catharine of Sienna in Allentown and morning Mass Christmas Day at the Church of St. Ann in Emmaus. He will be leaving the Allentown Diocese to go to the Diocese of Rockville Centre, which consists of Nassau and Suffolk counties in Long Island, New York. JARRAD HEDES/TIMES NEWS
The Most Rev. Bishop John O. Barres celebrates the 5 p.m. Mass with the parishioners in the Sacred Heart Church in Palmerton on Christmas Eve. After Sacred Heart, he celebrated Midnight Mass at the Cathedral Church of St. Catharine of Sienna in Allentown and morning Mass Christmas Day at the Church of St. Ann in Emmaus. He will be leaving the Allentown Diocese to go to the Diocese of Rockville Centre, which consists of Nassau and Suffolk counties in Long Island, New York. JARRAD HEDES/TIMES NEWS