church Archives - Jeff Cassman

Our Sunday morning vehicle debacle caused us to split up for Mass times, with the RadTrads going to the SSPX and us obedient, non-rigid, non-schismatic, and non-heretical sons and daughters of Holy Mother Church going to the later diocesan TLM. Some of the children enjoyed the detour because they got to see some “acquaintances’ of the opposite sex.

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Sacred Heart Catholic Church In Tampa Bay, Florida

Posted on February 9, 2021July 2, 2021 by bencassman

When a cathedral has five altars, you know it was built in a different era (circa 1905).

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Old St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Detroit, Michigan

Posted on February 2, 2021July 2, 2021 by bencassman

In the heart of Greektown, Detroit.

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St. Stephen’s Catholic Church in Cleveland, Ohio

Posted on February 1, 2021July 2, 2021 by bencassman

I brought Sarah to see this beautiful place. The first parishioners mortgaged their own homes to help finance construction. Stain glass windows from Munich, Mexican onyx and brass communion rails still in use. Organ is a 3 manual, 41 electro-pneumatic w/ 2,298 pipes. A lock of St Stephen’s hair is in a reliquary.