"it’s important to remember that the recommendations of the planning group, based on detailed study and through prayer and discernment, are just that, recommendations."
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Or words to that effect
A spokesman for the Diocese of Rochester mouths familiar tripe to the good people of Irondequoit, my mother's childhood neighborhood:
Get the inside story from Gene here and here.
Get the inside story from Gene here and here.
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Has Bishop Clark once turned down a recommendation to close a church?
Not to my knowledge.
I pray that I am wrong.
According the announcement made this morning; two Irondequoit churches will be closed. St Salome’s and St Thomas the Apostle will close. Christ the King, St. Cecilia (pastor at St Cecilia is Fr. Leone who was our pastor when we were members of St Ann’s), and St Margaret Mary will remain open. There will now be one official Irondequoit Parish with one new name..Sound familiar? Many parishioners made statements that parishes should close. I think too many are now coming to this opinion after having experience these "lay parish administrators". I believe I heard that a "pastor" will be appointed to this new Irondequoit parish. Irondequoit is too old school to put up with "passing fads".
Loyal Catholic
From what I have seen, St. Margaret Mary is among the suburban parishes least injured by trends in contemporary architecture over the last 70 years, so it is good that it's is among the buildings which will remain in use.
See,
http://www.saintmargaretmary.net/
Art,
St. Margaret Mary is my sister's parish and I've visited a few times. While it is by no means a model of the reform of the reform, it strikes me as agenda-free liturgically and spiritually healthy. So its praxis appears to match its architecture.
And thanks for the update, LC.
So St. Thomas the Apostle was financially stable and yet is being closed - that doesn't pass the common sense test.
Tim Horan is over at St Margaret Mary, still, I believe...of course they also have Fr. Erdle there as well...wonderfully orthodox man
since he retired from St Mark's up in Greece, the parish has just spiraled down the toilet
Friends tell me they are explicitly told to stand for the Eucharistic prayer and other such heterodox garbage by Fr Sirianni. I even know many former parishioners have moved to St Charles Borromeo or St Lawrence...neither of which is all that orthodox
Re: above anon post
So it wasn't just my imagination that St. Mark's didn't quite seem the same the last time I went there earlier this year.
~Dr. K
Dear Dr. K, Rich, and all,
I am sorry for the people of St. Mark's. Fr. Ertle is a gem of a priest. I have to say that I have developed a great deal of appreciation for those priests who have retained and have grown in their spirituality. They need to retain theirs if they are to help us develop ours. It is great to be able to go to church and not have to clear through the static of politics to focus on the gospel readings .
Loyal Catholic
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