An organ was installed when the 1939 Church was built, but it was by no means new. It had been in use at the Carnegie Music Hall, North Side, for more than 50 years, and was among the largest in use in a diocesan church. Resurrection got many years of service from that organ, despite its age. It wasn’t until 1980 that Father John McMahon decided that the 2,581-pipe organ was pumping its final notes. Fund-raising efforts began, and on November 30, 1980, the parish dedicated an Allen Digital Computer Organ System 1203, a high tech wonder designed to withstand the ravages of time and weather.

As the new church was being dedicated in 1939, newspaper accounts were detaining the latest political and military upheavals in Eastern Europe. Before long, the United States was involved in a world war, and many Resurrection parishioners sent their sons overseas, some never to return.