tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post4923017241858958644..comments2024-02-14T03:56:12.027-08:00Comments on La Salette Journey: The House of God will be deserted....Paul Anthony Melansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-87430081457931877492010-03-07T12:51:30.251-08:002010-03-07T12:51:30.251-08:00No Thomas. Immaculate Conception usually has arou...No Thomas. Immaculate Conception usually has around 75 people at any given Mass. St. Joseph's Parish is a ghost town on Sunday mornings although the vigil Mass has a fair number attending. But all in all, parishes are emptying out. There is no real leadership in Fitchburg.St. Joe's Parishionernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-68520152923780093802010-03-07T12:26:30.823-08:002010-03-07T12:26:30.823-08:00Are the Fitchburg churches really that full?Are the Fitchburg churches really that full?Thomas Coolberthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18006353689817752538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-20172536832902166652010-03-06T09:31:04.022-08:002010-03-06T09:31:04.022-08:00As the Worcester T&G reports: Half the existin...As the Worcester T&G reports: Half the existing churches are being closed, leaving 4 churches for 18-20,000 people or 4500-5000 per parish. With how many priests: one per parish? Those are impersonal "magachurch" numbers.<br /> <br />Will the same thing happen in Worcester: Closing/combining half the existing parishes into the larger churches such as Our Lady of the Angels, St. Peter's and St. Paul's Cathedral?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-1149427421146568862010-03-06T06:03:45.396-08:002010-03-06T06:03:45.396-08:00We should be building churches not closing them. ...We should be building churches not closing them. We should be committed toward a new evangelization but were not. We are the authors of our own demise. The light of faith is dying out in what was once a grand Catholic city. And the darkness is beginning to envelop everything in this city in decay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-42996112588921445522010-03-05T16:28:37.828-08:002010-03-05T16:28:37.828-08:00How sad for Fitchburg. How sad that the diocese i...How sad for Fitchburg. How sad that the diocese is struggling financially with 75 of 120 parishes having difficulty. But merely one symptom of spiritual rot.<br /><br />I forward my donations to orthodox religious communities and causes. I cannot in good conscience contribute to a diocese which promotes dissent and new age and which discourages orthodox vocations.St.Joe's Parishionernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-32739258557415772482010-03-05T14:35:06.364-08:002010-03-05T14:35:06.364-08:00Tonight's Chronicle (Channel 5) features athei...Tonight's Chronicle (Channel 5) features atheists who believe that religion is a "danger." Everything is coming apart now, morals, the economy, the political sphere - everything. America is under a chastisement.Stewartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-50711523232297125592010-03-05T14:04:03.298-08:002010-03-05T14:04:03.298-08:00Fitchburg is losing its faith and Christian herita...Fitchburg is losing its faith and Christian heritage. A generation ago Catholics were building churches - not closing them. And they would never have stood for Planned Parenthood coming into town. Our clergy have failed to lead.ACatholicinClintonnoreply@blogger.com