Paterson, N.J., Mar 3, 2017 / 06:36 am
A Catholic chapel that has served a New Jersey shopping mall since 1970 has scheduled its final Mass.
St. Therese's Chapel at the Bergen Town Center in Paramus, N.J. was set to close on Ash Wednesday. The chapel, also called the Chapel on the Mall, was run by Carmelite priests.
Father Eugene Joseph Bettinger, 70, served as the chapel's executive director, the New York Times reports.
"It will be a Lent of the hunting," he told his congregation during Mass. "After Ash Wednesday, it will be quite the desert experience for us."