Father Michael Perry

Keeping Up With Our Lady Of Refuge's Pipe Organ

Joe Vitacco, organ enthusiast and leader of the project to restore the 1930s Kilgen pipe organ at Our Lady of Refuge Church [/blog/news/after-nearly-seven-years-a-renewed-1930s-kilgen-pipe-organ-returns-to-our-lady-of-refuge] , sent over this video condensing six years of work into seven minutes of footage. You can see how the church itself was fixed up during

A Local Connection to the Notre Dame Cathedral

What connection does Ditmas Park have to France’s Notre Dame Cathedral [http://www.notredamedeparis.fr/-English-]? Turns out Father Michael Perry, who leads the congregation at Our Lady of Refuge [http://www.olrbrooklyn.org] on Ocean Avenue, has spent every summer for nearly two decades serving at the historic