{"id":138622,"date":"2026-03-15T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138622\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:56:09","slug":"scranton-honors-st-patricks-day-with-annual-mass-footrace-in-memory-of-late-parade-president-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/138622\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton honors St. Patrick&#8217;s Day with annual Mass, Footrace in memory of late parade president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The annual St. Patrick&#8217;s Parade Day Mass was held this morning at the Cathedral of Saint Peter along Wyoming Avenue in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Scranton;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Scranton&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Scranton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Reverend Joseph C. Bambera, the bishop of Scranton, served as the principal celebrant of the Mass, an event open to all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s such an important part of the day. It&#8217;s great to start your day honoring Saint Patrick in church with Bishop Bambara. He gave a great homily. We had a nice mass. It was a packed church, and that&#8217;s the way the day should start,&#8221; said Jude McDonough, St. Patrick&#8217;s Parade Association of Lackawanna County 2026 president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The mass is held every year prior to the annual St Patrick&#8217;s parade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following the mass, the oldest running footrace in the Scranton area began at 11 am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">200 people came out to run in the Brian P. Kelly Memorial Saint Patrick&#8217;s Parade Footrace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event was organized as a way to honor the former president of the parade association, who passed away from cancer in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s a good way to remember him, you know what I mean? His name lives on, and it&#8217;ll live on for years to come and again it is the kick off to the parade so,&#8221; said Tom Schuster, the Brian P. Kelly race organizer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two-mile footrace follows the parade route backwards and ends in front of the cultural center at the masonic temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual St. Patrick&#8217;s Parade Day Mass was held this morning at the Cathedral of Saint Peter along&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[63667,36579,178,180,179,30418],"class_list":["post-138622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-parade-association","tag-saint-peter","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-st-patrick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}