One of the wonderful things about Catholicism is just how catholic, it can be. Come up with an assumption about what a parish will be like and the parish will say nope. Earlier this week, St Gregory broke my hypothesis about traditional architecture and traditional liturgy being inversely correlated, today, Saint Therese Chinese Catholic Church showed that lace doesn’t mean you won’t still get hymns by the Saint Louis Jesuits and Sebastian Temple alongside your veneration of a relic of Saint Teresa of Calcutta.
Because Saint Therese is part of a conjoined parish alongside Saint Barbara in Bridgeport and the two churches collectively have taken on the name Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the attendance at this special Mass reflected both communities, perhaps more Bridgeport than Chinatown looking around, although the parish school also had significant representation and was predominantly Asian-American in its demographics.
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