As you can see in the picture above, this parish is building a new parish center, so it must be doing well. Unfortunately, this also means that we had loud construction sounds coming from outside for the entire Mass, which actually forced me to concentrate more than I normally do on the Liturgy. I'm sure the daily Mass crowd here is used to it by now.
The ceiling in the church is unusually high. There is wood everywhere, including some very cool looking support beams on the ceiling. I would love to go back and see the parish when all the construction is done and everything is back to normal.
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| A rendering of the finished parish |
The Mass was concelebrated by one of our diocese' three brand new priests, Fr. Nick Fleming. I'm not sure exactly what brought him to this parish on this day, but it was really cool seeing him go through the consecration for one of his first times ever. After Mass the Blessed Sacrament was exposed for adoration, and some people stayed to pray the rosary.
Today is the feast day of St. Kateri, but only in America for reasons that I can't track down (everywhere else it's April 17, the day of her death). I like that I came to St. Bernard's on her feast day, since St. Bernard's launched the St. Kateri parish that I wrote about last week. St. Kateri is the first Native American saint, just recently canonized in 2012. She was disfigured by smallpox as a child. She converted to Catholicism despite being shunned by her tribe for doing so, and moved to a Jesuit missionary village in Canada for the last few years of her life. She took a vow of perpetual virginity and died in the village at the age of 24.
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