{"id":258191,"date":"2017-12-02T06:57:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T11:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aleteia.org\/?post_type=post&amp;p=258191"},"modified":"2017-12-02T06:57:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T11:57:06","slug":"after-harvey-houston-parish-resumes-services-in-temporary-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2017\/12\/after-harvey-houston-parish-resumes-services-in-temporary-church\/","title":{"rendered":"After Harvey: Houston parish resumes services in temporary church"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>You may remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2017\/08\/30\/houston-residents-are-in-for-a-long-recovery-after-harvey\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>reports<\/strong><\/a> about this church and its parish community from a few months back.<\/p>\n<p>This video showed the devastation:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Flash flood cypresswood,tx\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fkdg_PzkbTs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/m.chron.com\/neighborhood\/spring\/news\/article\/Temporary-church-hopes-to-bring-parishioners-back-12392651.php?utm_campaign=fb-desktop&amp;utm_source=CMS+Sharing+Button&amp;utm_medium=social#item-39786\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>an update:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After being completely flooded by Hurricane Harvey, St. Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church is putting the finishing touches on a temporary church to finally resume services after being away for nearly three months.<\/p>\n<p>A crew was working power the building located on the church\u2019s front lawn, which is adding five air conditioning and heating units, speaker system and lights so that it would be ready by this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Father Norbert Maduzia said the new steel structure with a tarp roof took about a week to assemble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not perfect, but it\u2019s home,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the important thing \u2013 to keep people at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the noise of traffic on Cypresswood Drive intrudes in the new building, the temporary church has 1,001 chairs for parishioners to arrive on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Church officials have been working behind the scenes to figure out legal, insurance and risk management after Harvey.<\/p>\n<p>Maduzia said the temporary church is a visible sign to parishioners of the work that\u2019s being done to repair the church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got the try to make the best of it,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more and see pictures of the temporary church <a href=\"http:\/\/m.chron.com\/neighborhood\/spring\/news\/article\/Temporary-church-hopes-to-bring-parishioners-back-12392651.php?utm_campaign=fb-desktop&amp;utm_source=CMS+Sharing+Button&amp;utm_medium=social#item-39786\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Photo: Facebook<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember the reports about this church and its parish community from a few months back. 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