Name: Fiore Funeral Home
Address: 882 Broadway, West Long Branch, NJ, 07764
Telephone: 732-229-8855

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In Memory of

Father James
Cammisa

2013

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Our Lady of Lourdes Parish

When my parents moved our family back to my mother's hometown of Whitehouse Station, NJ, in 1968, we bagan attending Our Lady of Lourdes which is where Father Cammisa was pastor at the time. In those, days, priests at the pulpit were not as pastoral and "sensitive" as they are today. In fact, Father Cammisa was a real firebrand. I was only five at the time, and remember Father as "New Jersey Italian gruff", and in the confessional, too, he was intimidating and could scare the demons out of a church. Years later, long after Father had retired, I was visiting Our Lady of Lourdes where my mother still attended Mass, and Father was there concelebrating as a visiting priest. What a change! This was not the firebrand I remembered as a kid! He was smiling, friendly, approachable, and very much like the kindly grandfather. It reminded me of the Far Side comic panel that came out about that time where there are a pack of wolves behind a tree analyzing a former pack-mate who is sitting with his adopted family very much acting lke the family dog. One of the wolves says, "It's Bob all right, but look at those vacuous eyes, that mindless grin on his face, he's been domesticated I tell you!" Please take none of this the wrong way. I say all this in all jest and with great fondness for Father. I have missed him greatly through the years and he has had a profound positive influence on my Catholic faith. Requiscat in aeternam pacem , Father.

Posted by George Dragan

Thursday September 15, 2016 at 9:00 am

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