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To: maryz
Walk down Franklin St. away from Filene's and the 'buck a book' store and pay attention to the doorways -- the St. Thomas More chapel (or maybe small church?) has a big bronze archway and the door is recessed. I wanna say there's a small sign outside giving a thumbnail history? I have a horrible memory and I was just in it a couple of weeks ago with my daughter. Sheesh! It's tiny, smells of incense and there are always people saying the rosary when I've gone in. I think there's a Mass there around noon time since I recall attending lunchtime Mass there - but that would have been before 1989.

I think it's maintained by the Propagation for the Faith. Well worth a look see!

Once I noticed Arch St. gave up the real votives for those excretable 'turn on the light' things, it was all downhill from there! I miss seeing the beautiful statues in the side chapel though.

42 posted on 06/01/2005 7:50:59 AM PDT by american colleen (Long live Benedict XVI!)
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To: american colleen
I've seen the Propagation of the Faith offices -- I never realized there was a chapel.

(I always assumed the switch to the electric candles probably had something to do insurance requirements -- stupid ones, if so. In any case, I don't really know. They are lower maintenance, I guess. Of course, they don't seem worth using.)

47 posted on 06/01/2005 10:15:08 AM PDT by maryz
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