In graying priesthood, New York’s grayest keeps Faith in Bronx
By Sharon Otterman | New York Times | July 17, 2012:
NEW YORK – It was the bell that first called to him. It was a Sunday afternoon in the mid-1920s, and his family was living in the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx. When an altar server rang the bell during the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, Gerald Ryan, then about 4, thought the beautiful sound was coming from the monstrance that held the host.