4 /5 Jim Gysin: I admit that I am biased on this one. As a kid, I was serving as an altar boy and attending Mass here back when it was celebrated in the school gym before the current church was built. And I attended the school from first through fourth grade, so it has been a home of sorts for many years. As such, it will always be the late Fr. Livingstons place to me, and that man set a standard -- both theologically and operationally -- that I have rarely seen. For example, despite being a design and construction product of the late 70s and early 80s, the churchs tabernacle is right where it should be: at the center of the sanctuary, and not moved off to the side as was far too common in churches of that vintage.
Fast-forwarding to the present, the current priests are a definite improvement on some of their own predecessors and are doing good work, and its not as if their homilies are packed with heresies or anything along those lines. In short, St. Vincent is most definitely NOT a place to be avoided. But its also not the same as it was under Fr. Livingston back in the day, and perhaps its unrealistic to expect anything else...
