Sunday, August 13, 2006

A place to worship for 16,000 parishioners

Cheri Perkins Mantz reports in our Catholic Herald on the new church to be built by the merged parishes in the City of Fond du Lac.
Holy Family Parish was officially formed July 1, 2000. Currently the parish consists of four sites, St. Peter, St. Mary, Sacred Heart and St. Joseph. St. Patrick and St. Louis have closed to make room for the new church. St. Joseph is also scheduled to close before the new building opens.

The remaining churches will, it appears, continue to have Mass.
Once completed, the new Holy Family church will have a permanent seating capacity of 1,250. When the new church is built, the three other parish sites will keep their current names, with "Holy Family" added at the end. The new church's name is yet to be determined.

Sounds like "Holy Family" was the new church's name, so this would be the new new name.

Here are the architects' Design Development Presentation. Looks pretty much like the other churches I've seen built around here recently. Remember being told that Vatican II made it essential there be those windowless interior walls? Must have been a typo.

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