Ann property, including the church, school and convent, sold Wednesday to Buffalo Crescent Holdings, Inc. Must have been amazing going to Mass here prior to 1965.īUFFALO, N.Y. Google Maps screenshot of the property in question. I am talking instead about the physical destruction of a church building. Satan can try all he wants but Our Lord isn’t a liar so we know that’s not going anywhere (even if She is in terrible eclipse at the moment). No, I’m not talking about the “capital-C-Church” as in Bride of Christ and Mystical Body. I came for the blizzard coverage – they’re about to get slammed with a truly historic 4-6 FEET of snow – and I stayed for the destruction of the church. So this afternoon as I was cross-referencing my obsessions online, I stumbled upon the site of one of the local news channels in Buffalo. Truthfully, I have spent quite a bit of time in Buffalo as a dear friend of ours was in the Carmel there for a number of years and we would occasionally visit. And Buffalo – second largest city in the Empire State – always struck me as, well, a neat little city that lost some of its former luster but still tries somehow to sparkle as one of the great Great Lakes cities. When I got married, my wife and I honeymooned in the Finger Lakes and Niagara. When I was a toddler, my family lived outside of Syracuse for about a year and a half. The western reaches of upstate New York are another favorite of mine. That’s just bizarre to me and worthy of respect at the same time. I have some bizarre fascination with Pittsburgh even though I’ve only ever spent at best a weekend there. I love to walk the streets going from pub to pub. For instance, I’ve always had fun on my visits to Boston. I also harbor a soft spot in my heart for certain regions of the Northeast. I just never let go of the five year-old boy sense of wonder at incredibly large, powerful, and awe-inspiring things like construction equipment and airports. I can sometimes be found immersing myself in documentaries about the most destructive hurricanes in history. I have been known to spend hours reading articles about infamous blizzards that stranded people across large swathes of the country. ![]() ![]() I typically lull myself to sleep at night watching tornado videos on YouTube. Many of you know that weather (and in particular, extreme weather events) are a fascination of mine.
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