The 'gays' welcomed at St. Cecilia's.

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome! Fremde, etranger, stranger. Glücklich zu sehen, je suis enchanté, ...
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I've kind of been following this story as it unfolds, because I once actually lived and worked at St. Cecilia's in Boston - too many years ago now to have any record...  Monsignor Mackey kept me and another guy 'off the payroll' and paid us on the side.  Whenever I compare a rectory to a haunted house I am always thinking of St. Cecilia's.  I had a little hermitage in one of the towers where I used to go pray - it never failed to creep me out.  Mice ran across the lower church during vigils - the place was run down.  At one point in his career, Monsignor Mackey was a famous novena preacher and St. Cecilia's was on radio with Mackey preaching the Miraculous Medal Novena every Monday night.  It was at St. Cecilia's where I came to understand why priests drink or fall into sin - living in a rectory with an old Irish control freak was vocation numbing.  But I digress.
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Anyway - evidently the "gay" Mass was held at St. Cece's this past weekend, and from the photos, it appears the church and rectory and parish hall may be a lot more livable, in addition to being much more welcoming - ka-ching.  The parish is obviously a gay parish these days, look at the man posing  against the fountain.  What?  Monsignor must be turning in his grave, as are most of the ordinary Catholics in Boston who once frequented the church - not the living trads of course - they're making their voices heard.  Naturally I'm just guessing about all of the details, since I wasn't there for the Cabaret Mass - but evidently Carol McKinley was - she posts about it here.  I wonder if that is Carol in the crimson dress arguing with the priest/deacon? shown above in the photo with the two men dancing?  What?
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I was propositioned in that church once - but that's another story.
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A couple of observations here.
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Gay, gay, gay.  The gays.  I have a feeling one of these days it is not going to be permitted to call everything that involves homosexuals the gays or gay.
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Cardinal Sean and the Boston chancery have some splainin' to do.
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St. Cecilia's is in a rather gay area... Back Bay - eyeroll.  When I lived there "Dignity" met at St. Clement's Eucharistic Shrine just a couple of blocks away.  Even way back then I was against it - Dignity and its Catholic promoters that is.

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