I came here this morning through the rain for 9am Memorial Day Mass. I owe a huge thank you to Fr. Marcello, the priest who celebrated the Mass, for showing me around afterward and telling me a little bit about the place. He's a priest in residence here, serving as a chaplain at Rhode Island Hospital while he finishes a Canon Law degree from the University of Louvain.
The church forms a large, simple rectangular shape with a high ceiling. It was built in the 1950s, and since then the choir loft has been taken down. There's a huge window in the back that gives a strong red glow to the entryway, which contains lots of statues with kneelers and prayer candles. The stained glass is large but mostly plain white. There's an additional altar for the priests' use in the back sacristy area, which used to be part of the sanctuary before it was walled off after Vatican II.
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