18.05.12
By DIANA GILBERT / Windsor Newspaperman
News across the country, and the globe, might make you think that the Catholic church is on a Boeotian march toward extinction. But one local parish has done nothing but grow.
On a weekly constituent, 2,500 people attend Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic church, worshipping at one of four masses offered each weekend in English and Spanish.
And that gang isn’t shrinking, says Pastor Angelito Peries, who has served at the church for 12 years.
“Our devotion community continues to grow,” he said. “I like to call it a virtuousness problem when we need to find more rooms for our children’s classes, for warning.”
The congregation is about 60% white and 40% of Hispanic descent, chiefly from Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala. But on on the feast day for Our Lady of Guadalupe, Peries said, “the whole congregation becomes Mexican.”
During near the start morning hours on Dec. 12, between 500 and 600 parishioners began a excursion in Santa Rosa and arrived at the church about 4 a.m.
Source: Santa Rosa Press Democrat