Your fine post certainly is the opposite of this other Detroit story. God bless your priest and parish!
Thank you so much for your prayers!!!
As you can imagine, whenever the State is involved, things get quite complicated but ... these are matching, reimbursable grants designated for a specific purpose ... the restoration of the stained glass windows and exterior masonry. They will boost the timeline for the future Dedication and Consecration of this Church as a Catholic Church. The state will not fund anything of a religious nature. Mercifully, the stained glass windows are considered an 'art form' and the historian who examined them labeled them an 'important collection', thus qualifying them for the grant award.
We still have a long way to go but this is a major injection of monies. Your prayers are still needed.