I walked here a few Fridays ago for an evening Mass. The congregation consisted of me and five older Hispanic women. While attending Mass in a foreign language is cool in a way, it definitely makes me feel sorry for people who move to a new country and are forced to attend Mass in a language they don't know; you certainly do lose something in the process. The Mass was in a little chapel inside a former convent in the parish's compound.
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| The daily Mass chapel |
The first thing I noticed when I visited the main church was a bunch of people hanging around in the back for no apparent reason. I felt dumb afterward, but it took me a couple minutes to realize that it was a confession line. There was quite a long line by the time I left, with people of all ages, which is awesome to see in a parish.
The church has a high ceiling and some great paintings in the altar area and above the side pews. There's a Fatima shrine in the front. The pews are old school, but they've gotten rid of the partitions that split each pew in half. There's a spectacular stained glass window, one of the best I've seen, in the balcony in the back.
The coolest and most unique part of the church is the Lourdes grotto room in the back, off the entry area when you first come in. It's certainly fitting for a church with a name like this.
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| The Lourdes room |
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