It’s been a while since I’ve been able to go to a church for my Catholic Nerd pilgrimage, but I made it to St Richard church on the Southwest side of Chicago for a Good Friday communion service.¹ The area is part of the city’s expansion to the southwest after the second world war and the church was built in 1958, about the same time as most of the surrounding homes.
The interior of the church has the pews aligned in a semi-circular arrangement around the sanctuary. I suspect that this might be a later rearrangement of the church’s interior, but 1958 was right around the time that this sort of arrangement was becoming popular.
Since I’ve started including pictures of the Stations of the Cross in each church, here are two of the stations from this church. I’m pretty sure these are available to order from a church supply catalog and don’t seem particularly distinguished.
- By tradition, Mass is not celebrated on Good Friday. Instead, a communion service is held which looks a lot like a Mass, but lacks the rite of consecration of the hosts with hosts distributed from the supply that was consecrated the night before at the Holy Thursday Mass.
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