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…from members of my Parish St. Anthony’s.
Phyllis sits behind me to the right. Rep DiNatale sits one row back.
If you are wondering why I don’t have any video from other churches. I figure they must be feeling kind of down right now. I’ll give them a week or two and then see if anyone wants to talk, right now they don’t need a guy with a camera in their face.
The Worcester Telegram covered the story here.
but several other parishes were not so lucky:
He said the four new parishes will be as follows:
• St. Bernard’s Parish worshipping at St. Camillus de Lellis Church and serving the northern part of the city.
• St. Anthony Parish at St. Anthony Church serving the downtown area.
• St. Joseph Parish at St. Joseph Church serving West Fitchburg, including the Cleghorn neighborhood.
• St. Francis Parish at St. Francis Church serving the south and east neighborhoods of the city.“The patrimony, including assets and liabilities of St. Camillus de Lellis Parish and St. Bernard Parish, which includes St. Bernard Elementary School and St. Bernard Cemetery, will all be part of the new St. Bernard Parish at St. Camillus Church. The patrimony and traditions of Immaculate Conception, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Madonna of the Holy Rosary, as well as their assets and liabilities, will be assumed by the other three newly established parishes,” the bishop wrote.
I was a little surprised at St. Joseph considering many activities had been combined with St. Anthony’s lately however it is a bigger church than Holy Rosary so that might have been an important factor in the decision.
I would be a liar if I didn’t say I was relieved but I feel sorry for the others.
Update: I guess Robert Stacy McCain’s picked the right parish to visit didn’t he?
…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.
Now that things are sort of back to normal it’s back to the end of the month church breakfasts. We have them the last weekend of each month. You might remember this church from Robert Stacy’s articles at the American Spectator:
That was a lot of people over two masses but that wouldn’t happen without the people who do the heavy lifting at the 8 a.m mass…
They put up with people like me…
And at the 10:30 mass.
One of the great things about something like this is how it is an equalizer. At a coffee in like this there are no rich or poor, or old or young parishioners, there are just all the people in the same church who are part of a single community. In a time when people don’t even know their next door neighbors this is something that we could use more of.
If you don’t have something like this at your parish consider starting one.
Update: One small clarification, there was also food served after Saturday’s 4 p.m. mass including soups and meats.
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