July 2, 2014
Ascension Manor Residents Celebrate Independence Day with Flag Ceremony and Barbeque;
Ascension Manor Residents Celebrate Independence Day with Flag Ceremony and Barbeque;
23 Nationalities are
Represented in this North Philadelphia Residential Apartment Complex
PHILADELPHIA, PA—On Wednesday, July 2, the date in 1776 when the resolution for independence from Great Britain was actually approved, the residents of Ascension Manor on North Seventh Street in North Philadelphia celebrated Independence Day with a flag ceremony followed by a barbeque social.
At twelve noon, 23
flags, representing the 23 nationalities of the residents were displayed on the
manor’s grounds. The community consists of residents representing
the following nations: Albania, Central African Republic, China,
Columbia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Germany, Haiti, Ireland,
Italy, Jamaica, Liberia, Mexico, Mongolia, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico,
Republic of Peru, Russia, South Africa, Ukraine, and the United States of
America.
Ascension Manor, consisting of two towers with 279
apartments and presently home to 307 residents, is sponsored by the Ukrainian
Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.
Metropolitan Archbishop Stefan Soroka believes the
diversity of the population of Ascension Manor truly represents the America
story. “Every day our residents, representing 23 nations, live the greatness
and uniqueness of the United States. They are living the story of
the United States “e pluribus unum”—“from the many, one.”
July 2, 1776 is the date
that the Second
Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, in what would become known as
Independence Hall, voted to approve a resolution for independence from Britain.
On that same day, the Pennsylvania Evening Post published
this headline: “This day the Continental Congress declared the United Colonies
Free and Independent States.”
John Adams, who would
eventually serve as the second president of the United States, on July 3, 1776
wrote a letter to his beloved wife Abigail with this prediction:“the Second of July, 1776,
will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to
believe it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great
anniversary Festival.”
This year is the 238th anniversary of those
historic days in Philadelphia in July, 1776, days that gave birth to a new
nation, the United States of America.
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