Must have been amazing going to Mass here prior to 1965.īUFFALO, N.Y. Google Maps screenshot of the property in question. I am talking instead about the physical destruction of a church building. Satan can try all he wants but Our Lord isn’t a liar so we know that’s not going anywhere (even if She is in terrible eclipse at the moment).
No, I’m not talking about the “capital-C-Church” as in Bride of Christ and Mystical Body. I came for the blizzard coverage – they’re about to get slammed with a truly historic 4-6 FEET of snow – and I stayed for the destruction of the church. So this afternoon as I was cross-referencing my obsessions online, I stumbled upon the site of one of the local news channels in Buffalo. Truthfully, I have spent quite a bit of time in Buffalo as a dear friend of ours was in the Carmel there for a number of years and we would occasionally visit. And Buffalo – second largest city in the Empire State – always struck me as, well, a neat little city that lost some of its former luster but still tries somehow to sparkle as one of the great Great Lakes cities. When I got married, my wife and I honeymooned in the Finger Lakes and Niagara. When I was a toddler, my family lived outside of Syracuse for about a year and a half. The western reaches of upstate New York are another favorite of mine. That’s just bizarre to me and worthy of respect at the same time. I have some bizarre fascination with Pittsburgh even though I’ve only ever spent at best a weekend there. I love to walk the streets going from pub to pub. For instance, I’ve always had fun on my visits to Boston.
I also harbor a soft spot in my heart for certain regions of the Northeast. I just never let go of the five year-old boy sense of wonder at incredibly large, powerful, and awe-inspiring things like construction equipment and airports. I can sometimes be found immersing myself in documentaries about the most destructive hurricanes in history. I have been known to spend hours reading articles about infamous blizzards that stranded people across large swathes of the country. I typically lull myself to sleep at night watching tornado videos on YouTube. Many of you know that weather (and in particular, extreme weather events) are a fascination of mine.
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