One Night and Seven Churches
It sounds like Saturday's Save Our Churches event was a big success (more on that tomorrow), and is turning put to be the perfect lead-in to the upcoming One Night and Seven Churches event. This is your opportunity to visit seven of the city's most beautiful and historic East Side churches. This is the second year in a row that the Broadway Fillmore Alive organization has presented this tour. It's an attempt to show members of the community just how important these structures are in the grand scheme of urban revitalization efforts. According to the presenters, "The tradition of visiting seven churches on Holy Thursday is an ancient practice, originating in Rome and is a custom of Polish and Italian Catholics. Buffalo's Historic Polonia District comes alive on this night as many make a pilgrimage to various churches on the East Side. It is equally a religious and cultural experience as people get to view the churches in a unique setting commemorating the Last Supper of Jesus during Holy Week."
Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to see these grand churches... learn about their incredible pasts and oft-turbulent futures. To learn more about the tour, which takes place March 20th at 7pm, please visit the Broadway Fillmore Alive website. The churches featured on the tour are:
St. Adalbert's
St. Ann's
St. Clare's
Corpus Christi
St. Luke's
St. John Kanty's
St. Stanislaus
For details on the tour you can download the event brochure in PDF form here.
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pgf1948
I'll tell you what I think.
The Roman Catholic Church in which I was raised and schooled a grand fraud. It deserves contempt and desertion.
It would take the pocket change of the Papacy at Rome to save these magnificent churches.
Disgusting.
Begging every dime out of hard-working immigrants to build them, and now deciding that the "bottom line" makes preserving them
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pgf1948
My fingers got away from me. Computers!
I meant to conclude by saying that the modern R.C. church is no better than the horrifying Interstate Protestant denominations, more concerned with providing adequate parking for services than the souls of their members.
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Timatbuffalo
Timatbuffalo@aol.com I am sadden by the closing of these churches, in that the Catholic Church wouldn't come up to the community needs of the neighborhood. They have failed their parishioners. In looking at places that have not failed their faithful followers, such as the Chapel in Amherst, the Baptist, and Unitarians, we can learn that these people know how to bring their congregation together in support of their neighborhood. They still follow the original intent of a church by helping each other in support which comes in many ways like education, comforting the sick, and caring for the elderly and young. If a neighbor had a bad roof, furnace or porch, they got together and fixed it. I would like to see the community look at other uses and suggest solutions such as: 1. Libraries - a lot of these are in need of redo, so let's move them. 2. Community Center - again a lot of these currently are ugly and old, so use a beautiful church. 3. Mausoleum - Europe has done this for centuries, build a crypt and fill it with ashes. 4. Medical Centers - clinics and offices, private and public. 5. Consulting Program Facilities - we have vets that need our help and love. 6. Theaters - there is no business like show business, help the children shine. 7. Public Sale/Combination of Above Suggestions - this would take some real energy and some should be sold to people that would like a beautiful church in their towns in Arizona, California, and Colorado. The cost of dismantling and reconstruct is nothing to the cost of materials and artisans to make new and this could fund renovations. What it will take is some real love by these offices in their community, to take what is needed to covert these beautiful buildings into useful structures while keeping their integrity and architectural beauty. If a small little old man named Father Baker can build and fund a Basilica why can't we convert a gem to last a lifetime? Love Tim
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RisingDamp666
So what do they do with all those churches in all those mountain villages in Italy that were emptied of their young long ago, and are vacant shells of their past? Did the Italian government take them over? Or do contributions from the American Church keep them open while here at home, these churches get the padlocks? My pals at Banco Nazionale Di Lavoro aren't talking...
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BroadwayFillmoreAlive
The "Seven Churches" event is a great opportunity to see the churches in all their intended glory...thank you for posting Newell...I know there are some who have issues with the RC Church...I as well, but there are groups like the Pauline Fathers at Corpus Christi, St. Luke's Mission of Mercy or the Response to Love Center at St. Adalbert's who give so very much back to the community in B-F selflessly...they counter, for me at least, the negatives...it is a shame their stories aren't told more often.
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