Are restrictions Springfield Diocese uses to protect properties steering them toward demolition?
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Victoria Baeger and her husband have purchased the former Blessed Sacrament Rectory in Greenfield and are in the process of turning it into their home. (Don Treeger / The Republican) 2/26/2021
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Victoria Baeger thought she had found the perfect home.
It is old enough to have character with an unrestored charm, big enough for her husband and kids to spread out a little bit, situated in a good location and tricky in a market that was already hot in her price range.
Arriving for a showing, she didn’t really notice the cross over the front porch of 182 High St. in Greenfield.
03/03/2021 at 3:10 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
Fr. Joshua Caswell, currently the Superior General of the Canons of St. John Cantius here in Chicago, held his audience spellbound as he described the unexpected but wholly positive impact of the COVID virus shut-down on St. John Cantius and its mission, “to help Catholics rediscover a profound sense of the sacred.” Whether you were able to attend or not, to hear the remarks of Fr. Joshua, go to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtHiVCEhKxxv0yr0HnKVQFQ
A the back drop for his appearance, and as we’ve previously noted:
Our beloved Catholic Church has never been without crisis. But, she also has never failed to evangelize. In His own evangelizing, Jesus embraced the diseased, faced deeply conflicted religious Temple leadership, and with prudence advised His followers how to fulfill their civic duties to their pagan and oppressive overlords, but without violat
Seventh-Day Adventist Church buys former Blessed Sacrament in Northampton
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
Posted Jan 14, 2021
The former Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church at 354 Elm St. in Northampton has been sold to the Southern New England Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists.Don Treeger / The Republican file
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NORTHAMPTON A growing Seventh-Day Adventist congregation based in Florence bought the former Blessed Sacrament Church at 354 Elm St. for $455,000.
The transaction, recorded at the Hampshire County Registry of Deeds Dec. 30, doesn’t include the rectory next door. But that property, still listed in city records as owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, is no longer listed for sale.