I have to say that, if anyone has the opportunity to visit Centralia and Assumption, do so. The temple, sitting high on the hillside, above the desolation of the abandoned and nearly obliterated town is a powerful testament to faith.
And, the best view of it from a distance is had from the cemetaries in which the departed Catholics and Orthodox of the town rest, affording an opportunity to remember them in a moment's prayer.
Many years,
Neil
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"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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