Worship Arts Pastor Arundel Christian Church Glen Burnie Maryland United States

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GLEN BURNIE – When Monsignor Arthur Slade was pastor of Holy Trinity in Glen Burnie in the 1960s, he dreamed of building a bigger church. Instead, two missions that somewhen became their own parishes formed: Church building of the Adept Shepherd and Church of the Crucifixion.

Today, all three of those communities are united as a single parish known as Christ the King, worshipping at the sometime Holy Trinity Church and in the auditorium of Monsignor Slade School.

Now, after some 60 years, the dream of building a bigger church in Glen Burnie will go reality.

Parish leaders are moving frontward with a program to sell the church building buildings at Crucifixion, Proficient Shepherd and the quondam Holy Trinity to erect a new church that volition greatly convalesce a space crunch.

After celebrating a bilingual Mass for the Feast of Christ the Male monarch on November. 21 at the Monsignor Slade School Auditorium, more than 550 parishioners from dissimilar cultures and backgrounds processed with the Blessed Sacrament to where the new church volition be congenital on Dorsey Road.

Male parent T. Austin Murphy Jr., pastor of Christ the King (which is part of a pastorate that includes St. Bernadette in Severn), noted that Christ the King cares for approximately 4,000 families. Masses are currently celebrated at the old Holy Trinity church, with a capacity of 225. Special feast mean solar day Masses are held at the Monsignor Slade Schoolhouse auditorium, which seats 500 people.

"We regularly make full the church and need more Masses in gild to adjust everybody," Male parent Irish potato said. "Building a larger church is a good solution to bring more people together at the same time to reduce the stress on the priest of celebrating multiple Masses and also to centralize ourselves in one place."

Lord's day Masses include iii Masses in English and three in Spanish. Co-ordinate to Begetter Murphy, the Hispanic population comprises lx percent of the parish.

Jorge Hernández, coordinator of Hispanic Ministry at Christ the King, said numerous times parishioners find themselves in iv different places and do not know each other when they get to big events in the auditorium.

"I think the new temple is going to be a bridge so the unlike communities, particularly the Hispanic and Anglo, within our parish come together," said the native of Usulután, El Salvador.

He besides mentioned Father Potato has been working on building this bridge for the various community past celebrating Mass in Spanish and assigning acquaintance pastor Father Diego Rivera to English Masses.

"Sometimes nosotros have to rehearse at our houses because at that place are not enough rooms available for us to do," said Araceli Ortiz, a member of ane of the four Hispanic choirs at the parish.

Despite the feelings of nostalgia toward the former church buildings, Father Murphy said the community has acknowledged the needs of the parish today.

Richard and Michelle Peifer, parishioners of the Holy Trinity for 29 years and four years of Christ the Rex, are looking forwards to unity in the church building.

"Information technology is important to build a new church and then we tin all come up together as one because correct now we are kind of separated," Richard Peifer said.

"I think the reason is considering our current worship spaces are not large plenty to accommodate all of us," added Michelle Peifer. "Our family has worshipped in the auditorium for 30 years, then it will be wonderful to be able to worship in a infinite that actually honors the glory of God."

Due to the age of the three existing churches, maintenance expenses are high.

"We have financial obligations to all those spaces," Father Murphy said. "Information technology is a bleed on our resource to have to pay for all those different places at the aforementioned fourth dimension, particularly when non all of them are generating an income for the parish."

The new church will have predominantly mod features and incorporate elements from the previous worship spaces. For example, statues from the previous churches will be restored. In honour of the devotion of the Hispanics in the parish, an prototype or statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be also displayed. The new worship space will seat 800 people.

About of the investment will go to the interior of the church building, Father Spud said.

JRS Architects, Inc. in Baltimore, a local company that has previously worked with the Archdiocese of Baltimore, is the architect in accuse of designing the new church.

Father Murphy estimates the church volition price $8 meg and open up in 2025, if all goes as planned. In addition to coin raised in the sales of existing backdrop, the parish hopes to launch a upper-case letter campaign.

"The fact nosotros are a parish that needs to build a new church building ways we are growing," Male parent Murphy said. "The Holy Spirit is forcing us to move forward and I think a lot of people feel the same mode."

Email Priscila González de Doran at pdoran@CatholicReview.org

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