428 Main St, Monroe, CT 06468
Stepney Green is a small town park. It features an open lawn and gazebo available for public use.
15 Pepper St, Monroe, CT 06468
Located along the historic Stepney Green, Our Lady of the Rosary was spawned from a movement to return to the values…More of the Roman Catholic Church, preserving the "true" Mass and other sacred traditions against the new Reformation led by the Second Vatican Council in the early '60s. The late Father Francis Fenton of the Bridgeport Diocese and the Orthodox Roman Catholic Movement bought the chapel building from Methodists in 1972.</p> <p>Our Lady of the Rosary's current pastor is Bishop Robert F. McKenna, a priest of the Dominican Order of Preachers. Bishop McKenna formed a convent of Dominican Sisters, who live beside the chapel and assist in caring for the building and grounds and staff St. Dominic's Academy, a grammar and high school for boys and girls in the chapel hall.</p> <p>Visitors who follow a dress code stressing modesty are welcome to attend the Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel, but cannot receive Holy Communion until they join the congregation and "hold fast to the traditions we have learned." The church is well-known in the community for its annual Christmas Craft & Bake Sale fundraiser, held on the first Saturday after Thanksgiving.</p>