Catholic nerd pilgrimage: Good Shepherd (a day late)

I went to a Sunday evening Mass for Good Shepherd Sunday (aka the fourth Sunday of Easter). The parish church was built in 1968 and reflects the architecture of that era with a round nave and the pews arranged in a roughly semi-circular pattern before the sanctuary. The parish is pretty much entirely Latino with all the Masses at this site in Spanish (the other church in the parish has a single English-language Mass).

Thanks to ICE, I have to feel a bit self-conscious whenever I enter a Latino space like this and take pictures and have to do my best to not look like a racist spy.

The exterior of the church, showing a brick and granite façade. The building is a low-roofed building with a flat-roof maybe 20 feet above ground level.A view of the sanctuary from the back of the church. The walls are mostly brick, but there is wood panelling on the sides of the rear of the sanctuary. A banner behind the altar depicts Jesus as the Good Shepherd with the image somewhat inexplicably labeled in German (the neighborhood, before it was Latino was predominantly Czech and Polish).One of the stations of the cross. These are bas relief sculptures in wood. This one depicts Jesus falling for the third time, with another condemned prisoner carrying his cross while Jesus lies on the ground before him.


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