Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church is bringing back its annual feast and carnival this month. The annual event hosted by the Pine Street church — which merged with Immaculate Conception church on North Fullerton Avenue in 2016 to form one parish, St. Teresa of Calcutta — will be held from Thursday, July 19, through Sunday, July 22.

The event was put on hiatus for two years due to the uncertainty over whether the church would stay open. The feast, which had been a Montclair tradition since around 1918, began as a fundraiser by Italian American parishioners to build the church. Last year OLMC only held a Mass and procession, followed by some food provided by the church as previously reported in Montclair Local.