This historic Catholic parish fought to stay open-and won

[@bernadettehaupt265]

Now this what I call a Catholic community. Praise God

[@vincentbacarella2076]

This story makes me proud to be catholic God bless them for fighting and not giving up on their church

[@Preach-j1c]

Oh man they are all so beautiful. I would build huge Cathedral for them if I was the new Pope after Francis.

[@lydiabobes6924]

Oh Wow. What a beautiful and inspiring video of the Black Catholic St. Adalbert's/Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Parish! Many of us attend Mass at a parish but are not really connected to it. These parishoners are so connected to their parish. They are a real community in Christ. This is was Jesus intended for his followers.

[@LoveOverCoffee]

This is where I’d love to be. Beautiful.

[@jimnapier7087]

I'm SO PROUD to be a member of this phenomenal church!

[@AmericaMedia]

Thanks for watching Jim! We loved meeting you!

[@jimnapier7087]

@@AmericaMedia Thank you for all your hard work! Keep it up!!

[@TriciaRP]

@@AmericaMedia Our lady of the sacrament is not biblical. Catholism is not based on truth and they have all these saints or gods they serve. It is religion blinding the people Satan is slick.

[@Thomas-lg6jx]

​@@jimnapier7087what's with the statue of Jesus looking with a darker skinned Caucasian east African when he & his mother looked Caucasian ?

[@charisseglover7695]

I graduated from St.Adelbert...and my 8th grade graduation happened in this Cathedral right next door. A time when real Nuns taught us and let us visit their convent as well. ..Many memories of us worshipping there during our school years there.

[@jimnapier7087]

I'm inviting you to visit us again, Charisse! Good to see a fellow classmate in this forum! 👍🏾👍🏾

[@rudymatheson1415]

@@jimnapier7087 so lovely to see people connecting on this forum ☺️

[@Amy-sc3nr]

As someone who came from the east side of Cleveland, this brought tears to my eyes. Such a beautiful portrayal of a magnificent journey. Thank you

[@janepitz5848]

what a tribute to people! This church was the place they called home. And they got to return those!

[@jomcclintock5657]

An amazing, inspirational group of warriors!

[@kccox8516]

Lovely, Parish and People.

[@anniekachurek2556]

What marvelous witness to courage and perseverance. God bless the community of St Adalbert! Sadly my previous parish was also closed by the Bishop and though I’ve found a new parish home, I still miss the love honest love shared there. Our beloved pastor (Father Dan Begin) put us to task. To go forth and to sow the seeds of faith in our new respective communities.

[@jimnapier7087]

Fr. Dan Begin was a great priest and person. He is dearly missed! Congratulations on finding a new church home. I invite you to visit us at St. Adalbert sometime.

[@vinodfernandessj6825]

Deeply touched by the struggle of the parish community to keep their Church open. May God bless you all. The video reminded me of my experience with wonderful people at a Black Catholic Community in Jamaica, Queens, NY.

[@erlindaestrellado8184]

Thank You Lord For Keeping The Church Open Jesus Founded The Catholic Church Amen JMJ

[@marnigillard]

Thank you for this wonderful video of your church working together to reopen it in Cleveland. And the girl who brought about the mural.... WOW. Show's what's possible when people work together. BRAVO!!!! Touches me deeply. Albany, NY has kept a Black Catholic Apostolate for many years. They invite EVERYONE in the diocese to come and share each anniversary of staying open. It had to change locations a few times, but the spirit of the congregation has remained and ANYONE is welcome to come. God bless you all.

[@victoriadriscoll3890]

What a beautiful moment, faith totally in their community and the Lord. ❤️❤️🙏🙏 from UK

[@jimnapier7087]

Thank you! God bless!

[@myrnaleon8464]

You inspire me to be a better atholic ,the tru follower of our Lord Jesus Christ. God bless you all. 👌🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😊🎈🇺🇸

[@TriciaRP]

Catholism doesn't follow Christ. But another Lord and Jesus. It is not the gospel false doctrine. Satan use them to Deceive many from the true GOSPEL and word of God. They have a man made GOSPEL and another Mary

[@ricardopadua1575]

Such an amazing, moving story. From Brazil I send my love to this brave, beautiful, faithful people. God bless!

[@geroc6018]

Magnificient testimony of faith and perseverance. Congratulations! God bless all of you!

[@roisinpatriciagaffney4087]

Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, pray for us.

[@TriciaRP]

Ridiculous. They can't hear or do anything for you. Y'all BELIEVE lies. Jesus nor the Apostles told us to pray to dead saints. Smh.

[@eorzeanECM]

Hope and Faith can create miracles. Beautiful documentary. Thank you for this. God bless this community

[@albertaowusu3536]

Well done saints of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament!👍✝️🙌🙏💒

[@luimilnegron428]

What a gift to see this beautiful community and meet these wonderful people even if on a KZbin documentary!! Can't love this enough!

[@juanf.crespo2639]

Thank you for sharing it. God bless them and everyone involved.

[@lynndavis8399]

What a beautiful story! You can feel the exuberance and joy and connection and community here. This is a truly vibrant church! It makes my heart happy to see this and to see the gift that loving persistence acquired. 💙🙏🌟God bless these wonderful people and St. Adalbert’s

[@loreforone924]

What a wonderful church! God love you saints 💕🌹

[@spirit3922]

What a powerful statement of real Christian idealism. With imagination and inspiration - a new way to serve one another and the community is born, not in closure but in opening wide the door and letting in a fresh breeze. God bless your work! (north of Chicago)

[@jollyjohn5820]

Praise the Lord.

[@Ybpink_TZ4ever]

Growing up in Cleveland, I attended St.Adelbert school class Of 1984 and church in the ’70s. I enjoyed attending mass with my late uncle and aunt, along with St. Agnes 🥰🥰🥰 I wish I could have been there. Thanks for sharing this story...❤❤❤

[@ligoriopereira3540]

Beautiful, May God bless you all.

[@orangeblossom007]

This is so beautiful. Thank you 😊

[@helenbrierley7568]

A very moving True story of Faith-in-Action…in our Time🙏❤️🥰

[@vonibluetshirtsartandmore]

My Great Grandmas funeral was here L. Owens Perkins. It is awesome to see it thriving.

[@johnbradbury4000]

This brought tears to my eyes....tears of happiness.

[@declancronin437]

Wonderful, great to have such wonderful people in the Catholic Church. God bless you all. 🙏

[@jenniferjohnson3151]

Beautiful!!

[@keithsmith3386]

What an inspirational story... Thanks so much. ( in Canada here)

[@josephtyhall4515]

God bless you all !

[@theresabuede]

This is the most beautiful example of what a committed Christian is supposed to do which is to come together as a community and retain what matters which is our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and a community of believers where we can worship. I must visit this church sometime! I am not African-American but I am a fellow believer and know I will spend eternity with these beautiful souls.

[@fernupshaw357]

This is such an inspiring story! May you all be continually blessed.

[@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311]

Powerful. Inspirational. I am not a follower of any religion, but for many reasons, have a fascination with the Catholic Church - it's sheer reach, history, perseverance, colour, splendour and moral force is incomparable. The people featured in this clip were far too gracious to sink to rancor even with their own bishop who, in their case, would have been an obvious target. He was probably acting in what he believed to be good faith, taking no joy in suppressing any of the parishes in question. Nonetheless (and unlike the dear faithful of St Adalbert's, I am not constrained by their quiet dignity, and can therefore point fingers), it seems an egregious lapse of judgement especially (and this has to be said) for a white bishop to seek to close a parish with such social and cultural significance, never mind one which is clearly populated by men and women with such strong belief. The fact that, over the decades, it has been influential - indeed instrumental - in the bringing of black folk to the faith and the setting up of other primarily African-American parishes, seems to me to be a mission of the greatest import for the Universal Church in general - and of course, that of the USA in particular. The fact that they are welcoming and inclusive to ALL people, irrespective of their colour or stripe, should serve as a humbling lesson to the mighty Princes who, in their purple finery, often seem more concerned with finances and administration, than with their mandated duty of tending to their flock. As an aside, the noisesome clamour of the likes of Fr Altman, Gary Voris and his vile Church Militant ultra right cronies and Raymond Burke - the latter so busy pettifogging over the niceties of "tradition", hours (et multus denarius) spent, clearly, at grandiose Roman tailors and generally lapping up the extreme privileges of his high ecclesiastical office - should be placed firmly into perspective by the truly holy mindset exhibited by the populace of this small, but sturdy, microcosm. In summary, I earlier acknowledged my solid agnosticism - while owning up to a private fascination with the power and pageantry of the Church - it would much more likely be the example of the people I saw interviewed in this clip that would elicit an awakening of Faith in me, than an entire flotilla of pink prelates or a Catholic Disney of magnificent Renaissance churches dripping in gold leaf..... I wish your community all the very best for now and the future.

[@Desta4508]

There’s definitely fascinating history attached to the Catholic and even Orthodox Church as it being the first Churches, if I may ask, what makes you hesitant of joining it?

[@laurafloyd6554]

I was raised Catholic, but am now non-denominational Christian. I had questions about why do we ask a priest to forgive us for sins, when God knows our sins already. No human has the power to forgive as God does. My penance would be saying prayers! Why would saying prayers be a penance!? Praying is something I love to do. I have many other questions about this religion. I knew a priest who sexually abused young boys. He was sent to another parish! Not just him. but others as well. There are good things about the Catholic church. They don't realize that other people receive Communion in other churches. I used to believe that only catholics would go to heaven. This is not true. And why do catholics have a different Bible than others! I'm so thankful that God led me away from religion. Any religion for that matter. Jesus was not catholic. He was born Jewish, He lived a Jewish life and He died as a Jew. He was never catholic. Catholics changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. And we've believed it was Sunday all this time. God bless all of you.

[@judematovu2241]

From Uganda, I am happy for you St. Adalbert's

[@maryanneagimi8536]

Love the learn about the history of your church. May god bless you all Catholics in this community❤❤

[@kineticpsi]

I applaud the community's efforts to keep their church open to the public. This example is a good reminder that we have to enjoin our prayers with our actions. The community leaders featured in this video should be cherished. May God bless you all!

[@joanmaltman9580]

I was born and live in South Africa. We fought the Government in the Church when they ruled separate development and everybody came to Mass in the same building if you did not like it you could stay away.

[@deb9ragorton742]

I'm also in South Africa, In apartheid years, my Catholic primary school, catechism all the way through and church was always black and white, which I'm so grateful for.

[@franciscomartinez-up9lq]

Beautiful church God bless

[@kenneth7826]

Beautiful story..never give up..peace

[@DanSuolo]

If I'm ever in Ohio I will definitely make the greatest effort to receive Holy Communion there! I could definitely feel the radiance of God's love in the Blessed Sacrament there!

[@maryanneagimi8536]

Awesome story. May god continue to be your guide and help.amen❤

[@paddyjoe68]

Love my African American brothers and sisters and well done. Our Lord was truly on your side...Bishops ain't always right

[@helenbrierley7568]

I would love to visit and worship with these people of God🙏❤️🥰

[@norohildaesteves5788]

Thank you...I will like to be part of your parish!!❤❤❤❤ from Puerto Rico

[@mmonimore161]

Hallelujah! Faith, Hope and Trust bring the Will to do it. And by God's grace whom you trusted. You achieved! Amen to that. This is an inspiration to many who faced same challenge. God bless you all in abundance. ❤❤❤

[@RB3565]

❤ beautiful

[@jothompson1903]

God bless you all.

[@kentux333]

Bravo Phillis Fuller Cllipps and Crew!! So so inspirational! This ‘modern world’ and its new normals and individualistic ways is tearing families apart, as it did to mine. I pray for my children to have their parents reunited! I will pray for your parish too. Thanks for the hope and thanks for all the families you are supporting toward Faith, Hope and Love! We were married 11 years ago after walking the Camino Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in the 1000 year old Marian Chapel called La Corticela. We have two beautiful children who are devastated named Sophie and Asa, who have two amazing Catholic grandmothers and loving extended family. I am hoping my 10 year old daughter Sophie will celebrate her 1st Communion this coming Easter. Please pray for my children and for their mother to return to her faith! God Bless You All! Thank you for your perseverance and for sharing it!!! It’s such a gorgeous story just like all of you! From Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

[@rudymatheson1415]

Praying for you tonight Ken.

[@janiscarter5879]

I feel compelled to visit this parish. It's only a few hours drive from me. What a beautiful testimony to Christian faith.

[@jimnapier7087]

Have you made that visit yet? You are always welcome to worship with us...😊

[@janiscarter5879]

I had to watch the film again to re- familiarize myself with the story since I made this post five months ago. But thank you for the invitation and I will carry it through. I retire at the end of December this year, so I'll have lots of time on my hands 😊.

[@oscarmartinez2538]

I will never ever leave the catholic faith

[@TheGospelAccordingToMarkyD]

What an amazing journey. May this be an inspiration to the many Churches on the verge of closing. May the young parishioners in your Church be ignited by His precious heart so that it burns within them to give them the passion to share the Gospel with love and compassion.

[@isabelpimentel1415]

My home church is St John the Baptist, the FIRST Portuguese Church in North America!! Located in New Bedford, MA. We were closed about 6 years ago. We fought very hard, did all that was needed to prove that we were an alive church. We met all benchmarks the dioceses told us we needed to do and at the end it was not enough. We went to Rome with our appeal, and every time it came back that things were missing. On our last appeal, we never got a response. We had our spokesman contact our Roman Attorney Office check on it. Last we heard, that our letter was sitting at the Vatican's secretary's desk and it has been years and never got any response. Our parish was unique and we were a family and not just a parish. The Portuguese community immigration has died down, immigrating to the USA is small so I guess the dioceses felt it wasn't worth keeping our history. The dioceses filled the public with lies, even though we had the proof. One example, they stated that the church needed million dollars work, we hired our own contractors and what needed to be done was half of what they stated that needed to be done. And we were grandfathered in alot of things they stated that we had to do. We never had a good strong priest to fight for us. We tried to even get the Portuguese council involved, but they were told that they couldn't get involved, separate politics and church. We had a Portuguese speaking priest in the community who kept pushing any local politicians or the Portuguese council away from helping us. Our battle was a very lonely battle with no one in the higher office supporting us. But, what the dioceses did was leave a bad taste in our Portuguese community and divided us all.

[@lornakim5706]

Wonderful Video & Merci Beaucoup!😇🌉🎆🌌☔💒💝🎇🗽🇺🇸♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️⚓✨😘

[@alembess9129]

Awesome!

[@405OKCShiningOn]

Wow, beautiful story. I feel at home here. And love to Ohio. I lived in Steubenville for a while. Support to you and your channel for featuring this important history. 🙏🙏🙏🙏💛🧡💜💙💐💐💐💐

[@gustavoamaya7777]

Hermoso, nunca darnos por vencidos

[@maryellenkelly9537]

God bless you!

[@mperez2730]

I pray i can visit one day. Glory to God 🙏

[@jeffkeeth6380]

"Speak up, speak out. Get in the way." Congressman John Lewis. May he rest in peace. Amazing people. Amazing fortitude. Beautiful church and people.

[@reneedennis2011]

Thank you for this video!

[@martorres4242]

I love my Catholic Churc

[@MrPeach1]

God used this trial to grow your community. Picking up our cross is all part of the walk. Glad to hear about the happy ending.

[@nolaonyt]

Beautiful, inspiring, courageous, persevering. These beautiful people show us how to step up! May God continue to bless this parish, and may it produce & mentor young people to pass the torch to!🙏🏼

[@paularivera5122]

They did this in our parish. But after the flood the priest will not do mass even though there is nothing wrong. You have been blessed.

[@eileen1820]

My Catholic Family.

[@abts_comedy_showslime8358]

I love you guys

[@tsmith5889]

This is my old grade school, went here grades K-8...

[@JohnAlbertRigali]

I’m shocked that you folks at America magazine managed to present this without tainting it with heresy. Good job.

[@corneliusmakin-bird7540]

Was about to say the same thing!

[@marycorrigan2718]

So grateful for this video. Sister Juanita SJ. local religious talk show host.

[@Ma22natayo]

I am not African-American but this community reminds me....... *_We are Brothers and Sisters in Christ regardless of our color._*

[@barbarasanchezmitchell4213]

Bravo another church won the for closure and remain open there are lots of church for lack of parishioner or sold to make way for housing thank you people for the initiative done

[@Clare-e3k]

I do not understand why they the church would close why the bishop would close in the first place.I am so happy & proud that they re open it, glad this Woman and people prayed & fought. Beautiful art work. Nice Video

[@marycorrigan2718]

God answers prayers. He reopened St James Church in Lakewood, Ohio, too.

[@dalton7145]

Because y'all fought the good fight and stood up for Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and his Church, he will fight for you! God Bless 🙏 Viva Christo Rey 🙏 Ave Maria 🙏❤

[@fernupshaw357]

They are trying to close our parish. This video gives me hope!

[@briandelaney9710]

I firmly believe that it was through the Intercession of Venerable Augustus Tolton and all the African American saints that the Church was reopened (and lots of hard work by these wonderful parishioners)

[@carolstead2116]

My parents went to Holy Trinity in Bedford Heights and were heartbroken when it closed.

[@michaelcaza6766]

Stories like this bring tears to my eyes! God is so good! America seldom has great stories because of their heretical liberal ways, but this one is great!

[@sotide3724]

i have to watch this for skooooool

[@Desta4508]

Did you like it?

[@seafererone517]

Love the black Mary and baby Jesus statue

[@bonnerwf]

That's a really nice parish .

[@MrPeach1]

Kind of reminds me of our lady of guadalupe. The bishop didnt initially listen to Juan Deigo about building a church but then after the miracle the Bishop knew Juan Diego was getting that church.

[@markoyamehiii9028]

Black Catholics in America need to look deep down and rediscover herself. We need a fresh revival

[@patrickholt2270]

I feel like there's a defeatism in seminaries and theology schools that teach priests to expect shrinking congregations and closures, that then conditions them to give in to those processes. Maybe it's a form of spiritual attack, but I think it's more business ideology infecting ecclesiology. With the Anglican church this is explicit with the imposition of business school origin "mission statements" and "performace evaluations" etc. That's the other side of distortion of theology resulting from cultural influence from the prevailing capitalist order, along with the more noticed importation of wokeness and diversity language amounting to moral and theological relativism. The real problem with the dissemination of the faith isn't secularism but market society and the consumerist values and assumptions that are relentlessly indoctrinated by advertising and the media. The endless vaunting and idolatry of wealth, the figure of the entrepreneur, "success", "coolness" which is always associated with consumption of brands of commodities, of individuality and simultaneously conformity to the mainstream capitalist "norm", and the application of consumer mentality to relationships, beliefs, and the self. So people are required to "package" themselves for career self-promotion, to seek the "value" they think they deserve, but also for romance and relationships, in which people are indoctrinated by advertising and mass culture to treat each other as disposable eg casual sex and the denigration of marriage. That's forms of capitalist dehumanisation and commodification, as well as false values which people absorb from market culture without realising. Consumer mentality also dictates moral relativism and theological relativism, in which it is improper to have firm commitment or to claim to know for sure which is right and best. For there to be actual truth gets in the way of beliefs being consumer choices, that are all supposed to be as good as each other, merely a matter of choice, and choices which cannot be questioned or guided. No amount of excellent preaching can counteract the incessant din of advertising and it's many implicit messages not only of selfishness and greed, but that happiness and fulfilment depend on all the false gods of brands and items for purchase, and that therefore people have no need of God and ought to ignore the things which aren't available for sale, like the home grown, the home made, the home cooked, and grace and truth. All of that can only be overcome in the long term by doing away with capitalism. The answer is the kingdom of God on earth, which requires earthly revolution.

[@USA50_]

Blessed Be 🇺🇲🕉️☸️✝️✡️🇺🇲

[@theclapaolini4322]

I am so delighted with this faith story You will be so rewarded by God I love the black people all my life. We were brought up to love everyone never with bias I so happy to see so many black people on all media in the ads on TV they are the best performers and leaders ever HAPPY FEBRUARY DEDICATED TO BLACK HISTORY. ENJOY AND THANK GOD WE WERE ON CLEVELAND. PAULINE BOOKS AND MEDIA AND WE HSD TO CLOSE A FEW YEARS AGO YES IT WAS LIKE A DEATH.GOD WILL FILL THAT SPACE YOU ARE INY PRAYERS PAILINE MEDIA SIDTERS

[@nicoleyoshihara4011]

❤

[@emilyloppy7970]

This is how Christians should live together, like old days of the apostles. Ref. Acts 4: 32, 37.

[@tsinoy]

There really are those who we expect to be shepherds but who turn out to be lukewarm and lack in zeal. But then again, we are not serving them pseudo-shepherds, but God and His church.

[@Alvaro-Yovani-Ibarra--]

God bless you, my name is Alvaro Ibarra, I live in Guatemala, due to the current crisis in our countries, I had to self-employ myself as a self-employed vendor in neighborhood stores, I sell different products with which I bring a plate of food to my children, I do not have a fixed salary and sales are very low these days, I would like to start a small business selling pizzas on the street with a small oven, or Mexican cakes with a gas griddle but what I earn is not enough for me put together and start one of these small businesses and have a more stable income for my children, that's why I beg if some kind person would give me a little help with the minimum to put together for the iron I would appreciate it with all my heart.

[@Alvaro-Yovani-Ibarra--]

To see all my information celular number press twice the round icon next to God blessings

[@johnkelly7713]

wow

[@erikriza7165]

God bless these people. Too bad no Bishops care about anything but themselves and money.

[@LoantakaBrook]

It is terrible to close churches. People put their money into their churches many for generations and some bishop wants to close it? It makes me sick for them. Thank God these people fought for what is theirs. In the age of church closings, bishops removing some types of masses, should we as people of the church rethink the ownership of our churches? Should the bishops get to decide if a church gets shut. Keep in mind they sell our churches to pay for THEIR crimes. Think about this, a pedophile commits a crime, it is covered up, lawsuit, sell anything of money - your church has value to THEM. Your church is sold to pay for their crimes. They put zero dollars of their personal money into your church, but they are going to close it and steal it from the owners, the people. Everyone should be very angry when you hear a church is closing.