This church is joined with St. Christopher in Tiverton, which I'd been to a few weeks previously. The parish priest is easy to remember since he's Polish. I remember reading about him in the Rhode Island Catholic a couple months ago (http://www.thericatholic.com/archive/detail.html?sub_id=7479) as he officially became a U.S. citizen. Welcome to Rhode Island, Fr. Shemek! In that article he says that he sees himself as a missionary priest of sorts. I think we definitely need that around here, and we'll be seeing a lot more priests like him in the future.
The congregation was doing Morning Prayer together from the breviary before the start of Mass. I love seeing this from a parish, since discovering it has been a huge area of growth in my faith life lately. The church is quite recently built, with the parish hall attached to the back of the sanctuary, instead of being underground or in its own building. It has the fairly standard modern semicircle shape. The corpus above the altar emphasizes the resurrection over the crucifixion, an interesting choice that I'll leave it up to others to give their opinions on.
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| The book of the Gospels on display in the altar area |
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| The church hall with Bible School setup in full swing |
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