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Quincy Congregation Celebrates Easter Mass without Priest

Fox 25
April 9, 2012

www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/quincy-congregation-celebrates-easter-mass-without-priest-20120408


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(FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A church in Quincy which has been placed on the Boston Archdiocese's list to be closed and sold celebrated Easter services on Sunday without a priest.

More than 100 parishioners fighting to keep the doors of the Mary Star of the Sea Chapel open congregated on Sunday and had a priest-less Mass.

"It's unique in that it doesn't have a priest. It's special because it reinforces the importance of community," Maureen Mazrimas told FOX 25.

Mary Star of the Sea Chapel was founded in 1945, but was forced to close its door in September 2010.

Parishioners are fighting both the 2004 suppression or formal disbanding of their parish, as well as Cardinal Sean O'Malley's 2010 decree allowing the property the Church sits on to be sold to pay debts from the clergy sex abuse scandal.

They had appealed to the Archdiocese twice to at least have a priest available to run Easter Sunday Mass, but their requests were denied.

For a second time, parishioners held Easter Mass at the nearby First Church of Squatum.

The Vatican has yet to schedule a hearing on the 2010 decree to sell off church property.




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