At one point in the Renew My Church process, Saint Jane de Chantal and Saint Camillus were united as a single parish taking the combined name of Saint Faustina Kowalska. Then Saint Camillus was closed. The archdiocesan directory still lists Saint Jane de Chantal as the name of the church, but none of the signage at the church reflects this. Only the church’s domain name still acknowledges this, as does the fact that this coming weekend, at the end of each Mass, the pastor will give a special blessing with the relic of Saint Jane de Chantal in commemoration of her feast day.
The church building is a striking 1960s era church, reflecting the ideals of the post-Vatican II liturgy, with the congregation arrayed in a semi-circle around the sanctuary. A free-standing bell tower in a modernist style stands near the entrance. And in keeping with what seems to be a pattern, the more modernist the architecture, the more traditionalist the parish seems to be. In addition to the sacramental¹ blessing at the coming weekends’ Masses, the church is replete with paintings of saints and there are glass cases at the back of the sanctuary containing a number of small gold monstrances.
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