Work commenced yesterday to replace the ceiling at Saint Mary's. Scaffolding is in the process of being erected in a kind of 'bird-cage' structure. Already the altar is neigh impossible to get to without bumping into tubular steel which goes both vertically and horizontally in a three dimensional fashion. It was first thought that Mass could be said while work was being carried out, but it soon became evident that this was not to be as the building project would be both a dirty and dusty one!
Anyway...work has started and will take at least five to six weeks before we are back to normal providing that no problems arise in the mean time. At the end of this post is a link to a few photographs of the interior of the church before the work started and some more of what it looked like yesterday evening. It's not a pretty site and it will get much worse when they begin to take down the 172 year old lathe and plaster ceiling...the dust will be phenomenal. I don't envy those men one bit...more
Our thanks to John-Paul Evans for the digital photography.
Visible Expression
The ecclesial community, while always having a universal dimension, finds its most immediate and visible expression in the parish. It is there that the Church is seen locally. In a certain sense it is...
"... the Church living in the midst of the homes of her sons and daughters..."
Pope John Paul II
Christifideles Laici [27]
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