Did you ever surprise why there are such a lot of stunning Catholic church buildings proper subsequent to the expressways in our large cities in America?
When you reside in a giant metropolis, not too removed from an Expressway, what I imply… There are all these stunning Catholic church buildings proper subsequent to the Expressway. Why is that?
As a result of the church buildings are older than the interstates! They had been constructed within the 18 and 1900s. President Eisenhower signed the Interstate Act into regulation in 1956, which made the interstates we now have right now: 80 and 90, 94 and 40 and 10 going east and west, coast to coast, and 357 and 65 going north and south. When the interstates had been constructed, the Catholics didn’t need their church buildings torn down – so the highways had been re-routed, and the church buildings stayed proper the place they had been.
You possibly can see it once you’re heading north out of Pittsburgh over the Allegheny River. The Expressway takes a tough left and the place it will have gone is the attractive St. Boniface church. It’s the identical in Chicago with St. Stanislaus, which is just a few toes from 294! The church we’re in, St. Mary of the Angels, is the biggest Catholic church in Illinois and will be seen for miles once you come down the Kennedy Expressway.
In Milwaukee and Minneapolis you see the identical factor – so I congratulate all of the Catholics of the Fifties who spoke up and mentioned, “Please save our churches!” And do not forget that should you’re in a automotive on the Expressway and also you see a giant, stunning Catholic church proper there, Thank God that that church is there. Jesus is actually current within the tabernacle, so go see Him if you will get off the freeway – and if not, you possibly can pray an act of non secular communion. It goes like this: “I wish, my Lord to receive you with a purity, humility and devotion with which your most Holy Mother received you with the spirit and fervor of the Saints.”
I certain hope to see you, your pals, your households, your fellow parishioners on the Nationwide Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis this summer time. Let’s all present up for Jesus!
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“Well bless their hearts.”
