Christ the King Parish History
The First 50 Years
We had broken ground and had just moved in our new school wing in 1999 when fire broke out and leveled our central school building.
The fire was in May of 1999, by September of 2000 we were ready to dedicate and open a newly rebuilt school and to continue the tradition of education began in 1961.
Easily the most significant figure in the history of Christ the King would have to be Msgr. Wade who arrived in 1962 and served us well for 26 years. He retired in 1988 but even in his final twelve years after retirement he never failed to delight us, to amaze us and to pitch in with help wherever needed, above all he was a man of prayer. As one parishioner (Pam Brady) writes:
The Chair in the Back of the Church
Remembering Msgr. Wade
There’s a single chair in the back of the Church
That isn’t much to behold;
But the small, holy man who sat quietly there
Was an honor for it to hold.
If this little chair could count the hours
That the man had spent sitting there,
It would surely lose track,
For they were many;
The hours that he sat there in prayer.
You may look at the chair,
And say to yourself, “Why, that isn’t
Much of a chair”;
But, remember the man, the small holy man,
Who sat quietly praying there.
The single chair sits empty now,
Missing the small, holy man;
And, I know it would love
If you sat for a while and whispered
Your own silent prayer.