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What does it mean to be a community of difference? St. Mary of the
Angels is a tiny underground Catholic parish in the heart of
Boston's Egleston Square. More than a century of local, national,
and international migrations has shaped and reshaped the
neighborhood, transforming streets into borderlines and the parish
into a waystation. Today, the church sustains a community of Black,
Caribbean, Latin American, and Euro-American parishioners from
Roxbury and beyond. In People Get Ready, Susan Reynolds draws on
six years of ethnographic research to examine embodied ritual as a
site of radical solidarity in the local church. Weaving together
archived letters, oral histories, stories, photographs, newspaper
articles, and newly examined archdiocesan documents, Reynolds
traces how the people of St. Mary's constructed rituals of
solidarity as a practical foundation for building bridges across
difference. She looks beyond liturgy to unexpected places, from
Mass announcements to parish council meetings, from the Good Friday
Via Crucis through neighborhood streets to protests staged in and
around the church in the wake of Boston's 2004 parish shutdowns.
Through ethnography and Catholic ecclesiology, Reynolds argues for
a retrieval of Vatican II's notion of ecclesial solidarity as a
basis for the mission of the local church in an age of migration,
displacement, and change. It is through the work of ritual, the
story of St. Mary's reveals, that we learn to negotiate the borders
in our midst-to cultivate friendships, exercise power, build peace,
and, in a real way, to survive.
What does it mean to be a community of difference? St. Mary of the
Angels is a tiny underground Catholic parish in the heart of
Boston’s Egleston Square. More than a century of local, national,
and international migrations has shaped and reshaped the
neighborhood, transforming streets into borderlines and the parish
into a waystation. Today, the church sustains a community of Black,
Caribbean, Latin American, and Euro-American parishioners from
Roxbury and beyond. In People Get Ready, Susan Reynolds draws on
six years of ethnographic research to examine embodied ritual as a
site of radical solidarity in the local church. Weaving together
archived letters, oral histories, stories, photographs, newspaper
articles, and newly examined archdiocesan documents, Reynolds
traces how the people of St. Mary’s constructed rituals of
solidarity as a practical foundation for building bridges across
difference. She looks beyond liturgy to unexpected places, from
Mass announcements to parish council meetings, from the Good Friday
Via Crucis through neighborhood streets to protests staged in and
around the church in the wake of Boston’s 2004 parish shutdowns.
Through ethnography and Catholic ecclesiology, Reynolds argues for
a retrieval of Vatican II’s notion of ecclesial solidarity as a
basis for the mission of the local church in an age of migration,
displacement, and change. It is through the work of ritual, the
story of St. Mary’s reveals, that we learn to negotiate the
borders in our midst—to cultivate friendships, exercise power,
build peace, and, in a real way, to survive.
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