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Most people are familiar with churches and their elegant services, but many of us may not be familiar with much smaller and quieter settings within some churches, called adoration chapels.
There is an adoration chapel at St. Joseph St. Patrick's Catholic Church on Columbia Street in Utica, only this chapel is called the Perpetual Adoration Chapel.
Perpetual, because there is always at least one person there praying, no matter what time or day.
The Perpetual Adoration Chapel at St. Joseph St. Patrick's celebrated its 20th anniversary on Sunday.
It all began back in August of 1991 when Father Antone Kandrac, Pastor of St. Joseph's St. Patrick's at the time, and Betty Frank, a church official attended the Sacred Heart Conference in Syracuse. They both received the call back then from the Holy Spirit to begin perpetual adoration in the church. It began on March 4th, 1992 and it has been going ever since.
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