tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745814378416915364.post7167789983275077849..comments2023-12-23T00:19:35.005-08:00Comments on ADAM'S ALE: I KNOW IT DOESN'T MATTER BUT . . . Fr. Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13201561855047420853noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745814378416915364.post-20766419434703769432021-02-09T15:09:39.905-08:002021-02-09T15:09:39.905-08:00I conceive you have noted some very interesting po...I conceive you have noted some very interesting points, regards for the post. <br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/cmsexponet/%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%81" rel="nofollow">สูตรเดิมพันเกมรูเล็ต</a><br />UfaNews800https://www.blogger.com/profile/08095401597737200870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745814378416915364.post-15375635026826424942014-11-06T16:18:10.490-08:002014-11-06T16:18:10.490-08:00Here is another sad situation. It's over on Ru...Here is another sad situation. It's over on Russell Avenue just off of East Avenue . . . . there sits another victim of urban flight . . . St Peter Church . . . a building which my father designed, a building in which my wife and I married (the first wedding after the the church was built). You wouldn't want to see it now. I went inside of it a couple months ago. There were dust covered broken pews, piles of dirt, all kinds of rubble laying on the nave floor. It broke my heart. It had lovely stained glass windows designed and fabricated by a talented young artist in the Hunt Stained Glass Studio in Pittsburgh . . . I wonder if those windows have been rescued.<br /><br /><br /><br />rmkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745814378416915364.post-64759517921594422692014-11-06T12:46:02.911-08:002014-11-06T12:46:02.911-08:00This may seem inane, as I am a parishioner at St. ...This may seem inane, as I am a parishioner at St. Sebastian... <br /><br />One really cool thing about Barberton is that if you stand on the front steps of St Augustine and walk from there, up 6th, to Hopocan, to Prince of Peace it takes about 25 minutes and you pass two other old Catholic Churches. It must really have been cool 'way back when.'<br /><br />I wonder what we've lost sometimes when we lose these buildings. Were I Polish at St. Mary, and it closed.. I mean I can prayerfully worship at Sacred Heart, and it counts all the same - but technically I can do that at St. Nicholas Byzantine too. Or the Maronite church on Cle-Mass. The building stands for a lot more than just a Church (as if it can be "<i>just</i> a Church?") - but there's something about the community and the heritage that we lose every time we abandon one of these buildings. I can go to Holy Redeemer in Collinwood and remember an Italian festival 25 years ago, or go to Holy Rosary and remember the Feast (back when it was a parish festival in little Italy and not THE FEAST like it is now) when I was 10 and putting a quarter on the number 6 as they spun the giant wheel and winning another quarter.<br /><br />It's silly and it's trite, but it's not. I have so many formative memories of the community around the churches I've been blessed enough to attend and it kills me sometimes to see a church just disappear. I pray for Fr. Marty at Holy Redeemer (my family's parish) a lot, and the job it requires there, and am regularly thankful for the health of St. Sebastian.Chris P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10719297389304906325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5745814378416915364.post-86929925650122102182014-11-06T10:55:12.551-08:002014-11-06T10:55:12.551-08:00I feel for you father. It is not nice to see our ...I feel for you father. It is not nice to see our beautiful Catholic churches misused or unused.<br /><br />I was on parish council when the Cleveland Diocese parish mergers and closings were announced. I remember sitting in a meeting when our administrator told us at one time, Barberton was 70% Catholic, but that now the figure was far less, and the ethnic people had moved to the suburbs.<br /><br />My parish was merged, and we had a happy merger. The parish we merged with was reopened, and although I was happy for them, it hurt to see our fellow parishioners return to their old churches after we had gone to the trouble of bonding as a parish.<br /><br />I wonder what those good people who built, went to school, and prayed at all these beautiful church would think to know their spiritual homes were closed. It is very painful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com