SCITUATE, Mass. (AP) — Members of a parish closed by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston have held a final service before leaving the church they’ve occupied in an around-the-clock vigil since 2004.
Parishioners called Sunday’s service at St. Frances X. Cabrini in Scituate a “celebration of faith and transition.”
During the service, a handful of empty pews dotted a sea of churchgoers, many of whom openly cried. About a dozen quilts, some of them depicting each year of the vigil, decorated the church’s walls. At the service’s conclusion, families retrieved the quilts and formed a procession, carrying them down the aisles and through the church’s doors.
The archdiocese wanted to shutter the church as part of a broad restructuring plan that closed dozens of other parishes.
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