…which churches in town stay open and which ones close.
The Bishop’s letter is going to be read at all Masses tomorrow, 4 of the 8 parishes in town are going to be kaput. The priests in town already know, but to my knowledge they haven’t said a word, I know my pastor didn’t.
We have an active faith filled parish with a strong pastor a popular Catholic school and no debts, however our building is one of the smallest if not the smallest in the city. Normally I’d make book on things like this but since it is something that means so much to everyone I’ll just keep my mouth shut and hope for the best.
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Having grown up Baptist, and now being an Anglo-Catholic, I understand, although I do not fluently speak, Churchtalk. I went to your Diocesan website, and read the smoothage dispensed therein. (Remember, Edith Bunker tried to feed Archie roughage and he said, “A man my age don’t need roughage. I need smoothage.”) Roughage make things work their way out. Smoothage fills one up with, um, spit. As a holdout professing Christian in the Episcopal Church, I was pushed out when the Bishop forced my parish to close, by quite underhanded means, because he had his eye on the parish property, and the price it would fetch. I have felt the pain you are about to experience, and am very sorry. Joyfully, Christ is bigger than His sometimes sorry servants, including me, the chief of sinners, and some very Chaucerian Bishops.
In fairness the Catholic population of Fitchburg has dropped. We no longer have the huge Italian and French Canadian populations that worked the mills in the past. There simply aren’t enough parishioners to support 8 parishes in a city of 40k.
In the end the buildings are just that buildings, the Church is the whole body of Christ. We will get by as best as we can, but thanks for thinking of us.