{"id":1258,"date":"2007-12-27T11:47:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T15:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2007\/12\/27\/st-adalberts-christmas-eve\/"},"modified":"2007-12-27T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T15:47:23","slug":"st-adalberts-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2007\/12\/st-adalberts-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Adalbert’s Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The above video was shot during the 4 pm children’s mass at St. Adalbert’s on Christmas Eve.\u00a0 I had originally planned to go to Corpus Christi for Midnight Mass, but I have relatives in town and they wanted to go to a church in B-F and they have young children.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I didn’t know when I made my decision to go to St. Adalbert’s and found out afterwards that parishioners who are appealing to the Vatican to prevent the church’s\u00a0closure lost their\u00a0initial appeal.<\/p>\n

From the Buffalo News<\/a>…<\/p>\n

The Vatican\u2019s Congregation for the Clergy has upheld a decision by the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo to close St. Adalbert Catholic Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After reading that on Christmas morning, I realized that this may be St. Adalbert’s last Christmas.\u00a0 I was glad I went.<\/p>\n

The closure\u00a0isn’t 100% definite as of yet.<\/p>\n

More from the Buffalo News…<\/p>\n

The group of parishioners challenging the closing now plans to appeal to the Vatican\u2019s Apostolic Signatura, the highest level of appeal and the last hope for keeping open the 121-year-old East Side church.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy taking our appeal to the Apostolic Signatura, we will be able to fully make the case for keeping St. Adalbert\u2019s open as an active worship site,\u201d Stanley A. Kowalski Jr., a longtime parishioner and cochairman of the Save Saint Adalbert committee, said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now…it is just a waiting game to see what happens.<\/p>\n

This is something St. Adalbert’s\u00a0has been doing for years. \u00a0During the mass on Christmas Eve,\u00a0parishioners and family of parishioners who lost loved ones during the course of the year and are part St. Adalbert’s\u00a0congregation were\u00a0asked to come up on the altar and put an ornament on a tree so loved ones would always be remembered and prayed for around the holidays.\u00a0 One by one families\u00a0were called up to place their ornament.\u00a0 It was a moving tribute.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When I was piecing the video together yesterday, I couldn’t help but think of these people.<\/p>\n

A relative of mine commented to me after\u00a0mass about how they wish their parish felt like a family like it does at St. Adalbert’s.\u00a0 Those words keep coming back to me as I key this post into my computer.\u00a0\u00a0If St. Adalbert’s does close, not only will we lose a building…we will lose a family.
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