The old church is to be put to use. Uses include, but are not limited to, such prayer as the Rosary, Stations of the Cross, Eucharistic Adoration, Benediction, the lighting of candles in the Pieta Room, etc. There is some basis in our Catholic tradition for giving us an option. That basis is the distinction that the Church has always made between its liturgical practice and its devotional practice. Liturgical practice is the official communal public worship of the People of God gathered together as the Church; devotional practice is the individual or group worship of God in a so-called private sense.

With this in mind, it shall be our policy to use the chapel for the devotional life of our parishioners and to use the church for the liturgical life of our community.

With that as the basic policy, there shall be the following exceptions:

1. Those who have been baptized and celebrated their first communion in the chapel may celebrate the sacrament of marriage or have a funeral in the chapel.
2. On those rare occasions when the church is already in use and there is need to celebrate Mass in the chapel, it will be permitted. Examples are extra Masses at Christmas and Easter and Funeral Masses when a priest is available and another funeral is already scheduled for the Church. This will not be extended to include Weddings.
3. On those occasions when a devotional activity has a genuine need for the church (e.g. Audio-visual capabilities), such devotions will be allowed to take place in the church.

Revised April 2008