This is an attractive little church with a white exterior in Pawtucket, one of a cluster of Pawtucket churches within easy walking distance of each other. I took a long walk here on the beautiful, high 60s afternoon that we had yesterday.
The church's interior is small. As I've come to expect from Portuguese churches, there are tons of statues and little shrine areas at the front. There's one particularly great stained glass window above the altar, and a nice rose window in the back. The tabernacle is kept off to the side. There's also a relic on the altar, but I never got a chance to ask where it's from. I was happy to find the main church open, without Mass in the rectory like at a lot of urban parishes.
The Mass was in Portuguese, which I knew going in. I've done this long enough that I'm kind of used to not having the Mass in English by now. I continued my usual practice of awkwardly mumbling the prayers and responses under my breath, since I'm worried it will distract the people around me if I'm louder. You can tell the priest is a good speaker, though of course I have no idea what he was saying. As I've come to expect from non-English Masses, the mass took longer than usual, and there were a couple of songs. There was also a long sign of peace featuring lots of European-style kissing on the cheek, which I thankfully didn't have to partake in.
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