The latest on Holy Trinity Parish

[matrixrefugee]

The church is slated to close at the end of this month, and the Latin Mass community will be moving to a church in Newton, Massachusetts (a bit of a hike for us to get to, but we'll find a way, even if it means only going there once a month; the weeks my dad has to work, we've been going to Mass at St. Francis of Assisi in Dracut. Granted, it's a Novus Ordo only parish, but it's in a good area and thankfully they're not one of these "any thing goes" parishes. Though I did have a major bone to pick with the pastor for something he said about capital punishment.)... unless there's some intervention, and I hope the Latin Mass folks find a way to occupy the church, up to and including barricading themselves in there and finding non-lethal ways to physically drive off any pernickety diocesan officials who show up to remove the altar stone. I haven't said this to any of the people in the group trying to keep the doors of the church open, but since there's plenty of families with very small children in the Latin Mass community: some of them should save some used diapers which, when lobbed inside out in the general direction of any diocesan goons who show up, would make for excellent stink bombs. I only wish we could train the pigeons that live on the cornices of the buttresses on the walls of the church to fly in formation Air Force style and drop their "payload" on any personages whose claim to apostolic succession is extremely questionable....

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I really do believe that you lot should do some- what, passive resistance I think it's called? Organise a 24-hour round-the clock sit-in, or something. At the VERY least, hold an enormous protest- as many people as can be rounded up, and ring up every news station you can find, telly, newspapers, whatever, and get as much visibility in as humanly possible. I probably sound like a nutter, but religious freedom/expression is a VERY important topic to me, and I don't care WHAT religion it is, I'll stand up for it.
~Ruby

[(Anonymous)]

"I only wish we could train the pigeons that live on the cornices of the buttresses on the walls of the church to fly in formation Air Force style and drop their "payload" on any personages whose claim to apostolic succession is extremely questionable.."

That would be brilliant. But since it's not possible (damn!) I'm seconding the passive resistance suggestion. Just sit down in the church en masse and refuse to budge. So long as you keep it legal, there's nothing they can do.
~Weaver