I found this photo some days back here:
This is the TLM aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt, which I visited a while back.
Here is my shot of this same altar in the chapel of the aircraft carrier.
Here I am with the chaplain in the photo on the deck of the carrier.
The chaplain is on the right.
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I was stationed on the aircraft carriers from 1954 to 1958; The USS Bennington CVA40 & the USS Leyte CVS32. I remember that the Mass was celebrated in the lower hanger bay with the altar placed in an open area. Of course the priest faced the altar, It was a wonderful experience worshiping at Mass with so many young men. Most of us were still teenagers or early twenty’s. Thanks for the memory update. Now I have something to meditate on tonight! God love you!
Father, Is that priest offering Mass, the great Father Charles Johnson?
If so is he now back in the states?
God bless.
Is the priest on the left Fr. Perricone?
It’s not just us Aviators who soar with the angels.
Great pic.
:)
I served many masses aboard the USS Shangri La, and USS Kearsarge, in three WesPac cruises. Served mass until I was 21, and still can serve today. I recently served 6 practice masses with my pastor getting him ready for the TLM, which is now underway.
Deo gratias.
That looks like a priest who would kneel even on marble… scratch that, even on hot coals.
Fr. Z- I saw this photo last week on The Crescat and speculated in Carolina’s combox that the celebrating chaplain is likely a Marine, based on the only visible clue, his “high & tight” haircut… so, is he Navy or USMC? No cosmic import, just wondering.
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Bruce: Fr. Charles Johnson, USN. All Catholics chaplains for the Marines are Navy Chaplains.
Fr.- Thx, I didn\’t know that. I assumed the Marines have their own organic chaplains the same way they have there own aviators. I’m retired Air Force, hence my “vincible ignorance” of things Navy and Marine Corps- :>).
God bless all our holy priests serving as military chaplains in every branch and location in the world, it is a unique and difficult ministry!
That photo is just… “right”. This might sound a little whimsical even, but the fact that it’s in b&w means it could be from the WWII or Korean eras, and yet of course it’s bang up-to-date. For me that really strengthens the idea of continuity: tam antiqua et tam nova.