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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 515046" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I am so happy for them that all their efforts paid off and that their churches will remain open! It is just heartbreaking to see all those beautiful old churches closing their doors! </p><p></p><p>This happened in the old neighborhood where we lived in St. Louis. Although my brothers and I weren't raised Catholic, my dad's whole side of the family was and they all went to the same big old neighborhood church, starting with my grandparents almost a hundred years ago. For all those years they went to services there, got married there, had all the baptisms and family funerals there. My dad and all my aunts, uncles and cousins went to school there. Then the family grew and scattered and the demographics of the neighborhood slowly changed and the church membership got smaller and smaller. First the school closed ... and then finally a few years ago the whole parish closed down. What a heartbreak! The same thing happened at the beautiful old Lutheran church in the same neighborhood that we attended as kids. I still remember it so well. It smelled old even fifty years ago! It had lovely stained glass windows and a big pipe organ and beautiful hand-carved alters. And now it's sitting empty with a "For Sale" sign on the lawn. I "drove"past it on Google Earth and it made me cry!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 515046, member: 1883"] I am so happy for them that all their efforts paid off and that their churches will remain open! It is just heartbreaking to see all those beautiful old churches closing their doors! This happened in the old neighborhood where we lived in St. Louis. Although my brothers and I weren't raised Catholic, my dad's whole side of the family was and they all went to the same big old neighborhood church, starting with my grandparents almost a hundred years ago. For all those years they went to services there, got married there, had all the baptisms and family funerals there. My dad and all my aunts, uncles and cousins went to school there. Then the family grew and scattered and the demographics of the neighborhood slowly changed and the church membership got smaller and smaller. First the school closed ... and then finally a few years ago the whole parish closed down. What a heartbreak! The same thing happened at the beautiful old Lutheran church in the same neighborhood that we attended as kids. I still remember it so well. It smelled old even fifty years ago! It had lovely stained glass windows and a big pipe organ and beautiful hand-carved alters. And now it's sitting empty with a "For Sale" sign on the lawn. I "drove"past it on Google Earth and it made me cry! [/QUOTE]
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