St Patrick's Guard of Honor
of New Jersey
Frontline Workers
In a year marked by rising and falling cycles of COVID-19, it seems fitting to honor the people who have pressed on through hardships — heading to work each day throughout the pandemic, providing essential services for others, and helping to keep the economy chugging along.
That’s why our Selection Committee chose to honor all the region’s frontline workers instead of selecting a single Honoree. Rather than the traditional corned beef luncheon we will celebrate a mass at St Aloysius on Bloomfield Avenue in Caldwell.
It’s not just the police, fire, and EMS first-responders said President Joe Brennan. It’s grocery workers, UPS, FedEx, and U.S. Postal Service employees. It’s the tradespeople who worked on your cars and fixed things in your house; employees who cleaned the floors and cooked meals in nursing homes and hospitals; those who delivered food and groceries; and all the essential workers who went to their jobs every day and kept the economy going through the ups-and-downs of COVID-19.
“These people were putting themselves in danger, above and beyond what their job description was,” Brennan explained. “They faced their work every day, dealing with the unknown aspects of COVID. And that’s what our goal is — to honor all of them.”
