Breaking News re: Holy Trinity

[matrixrefugee]

The AP, the Associated Press, one of the most reliable and prominent news sources in the country, has picked up our story; I just found out, via the Yahoo Group for the bunch of us trying to save my parish, that the New York Times is going to carry a story about the impending closing.

You can dodge the issue, O'Malley and "Manning", but you can't hide behind your excuses forever. To paraphrase the Merovingian, we survived the Know-Nothings torching the original wood-frame structure in the 1850s, and we will survive *you*.





The exterior. The steeple got knocked off the belltower during a hurricane in the 1930s, but it's still a great example of German Gothic architecture



The interior, facing the sanctuary. This is an older picture: a few years back, the walls behind the altar were painted blue.

Comments

[veilofveronica.livejournal.com]

Wow..looks like a beautiful parish. Hope they can save it.
Is it a "traditional" parish by any chance? The altar looks very pre-Vatican 2, judging from what i've seen in pics.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's one of the few parishes in the area that has the Mass in Latin (one of the many reasons we're trying to save it: there aren't many churches in the diocease that could accomodate the ritual requirements for the Latin Mass, ie. because of the way the altar is placed in the sanctuary, etc.), but they also offer the New Mass, in German and English.

[veilofveronica.livejournal.com]

Cool! You're right, not many places that offer both...
do you speak german?

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

I took German in college, a few years back, but I can read it/understand it when it's spoken a lot better than I can speak it.