CV NEWS FEED // The annual Detroit “Mass Mob” is coming back to Detroit later this month in an attempt to revitalize historic churches around the city.
According to its website, the Detroit Mass Mob is a communal effort of thousands of Catholics who go to Mass together on specific Sundays at underattended parishes.
“We’re trying to help out these churches a little bit,” co-founder and organizer Thomas Mann said, according to Detroit Free Press. “We’re not going to save them financially, but we’re bringing people back, helping them remember where maybe they grew up, where their parents and grandparents helped build these churches.”
According to the website, the event has helped raise over $630,000 and has additionally increased other contributions to the churches.
The first Mass said for this year’s Mass Mob will be on April 21 at the St. Patrick Senior Center.
“St. Patrick Senior Center and the older adults that we serve are a foundation in the community, and we welcome for all to come and celebrate the history of our organization, the history of our building, and the support that the Irish community and the midtown community have given our organization,” Executive Director SaTrice Coleman-Betts said, according to Detroit Free Press.
“Enjoy a Catholic mass and celebrate the historical architecture of Detroit because many of these older buildings are being demolished and they have a place in Detroit history and in the future,” Coleman-Betts added.
Other parishes targeted by the Mass Mob include St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, the Catholic Church of St. Moses the Black, Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, and St. Alphonsus-St.Clement Catholic Church.
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