Posted on Apr 27, 2023
Another church closes: How Ohio is losing faith in Christianity
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Ten minutes before St. Mary Church’s very last mass begins, the pews are already full, lined with people who spent a lifetime building memories between the stained-glass windows.
“I sang in the choir for 18 years,” said 94-year-old Janis Robison, who has attended mass at the northeast Ohio church, just two miles from the shore of Lake Erie, for her entire life. “I always lived within walking distance of the early morning mass.”
She’s celebrated many beginnings at the church — baptisms, confirmations, weddings, more baptisms.
But today, she’s here for an ending.
After 136 years, St. Mary Church is holding its final mass.
“I sang in the choir for 18 years,” said 94-year-old Janis Robison, who has attended mass at the northeast Ohio church, just two miles from the shore of Lake Erie, for her entire life. “I always lived within walking distance of the early morning mass.”
She’s celebrated many beginnings at the church — baptisms, confirmations, weddings, more baptisms.
But today, she’s here for an ending.
After 136 years, St. Mary Church is holding its final mass.
Another church closes: How Ohio is losing faith in Christianity
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel many people got comfortable with the idea of YouTube tv worship. A building no matter how loved is not needed to get the message out, when I first moved here we had a small church, stained glass windows. Benches worn by those that gone before me. They tore it down to make a monstrosity that feels like a large room where it’s become harder to recognize anyone from another service,
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