Sad news from home

The Quincy Herald-Whig is carrying the sad story that Granview Church will begin using the facilities of the former St. John the Baptist Catholic Church - my home - this weekend for servies.

Sad news from home

My home parish church, St. John the Baptist, is being sold to a "non-denominational" ecclesial community.

Update: Grandview Church - who is buying the properties - have pictures up on their web site. So far, nothing on the parish web site and I've seen nothing in the bulletin. Very sad.

It may not be finalized with the Diocese but it sure seems finalized from Grandview's perspective.

The name of the new congregation is rather ironic, considering the current, and future, state of the church:

The view of an empty Catholic church isn't so grand, is it?

It was less than three years (?!) ago that I celebrated my first Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving in this church. This congregation, which in fifteen years' time produced three Diocesan priests, one Franciscan priest, and one Trappist monk, is now scattered to the corners of Quincy.

This makes no sense.