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Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” Volume 37 Issue 41 Thursday, October 8, 2020 50¢ One last Mass, then St. Matthew Church is shuttered after 97 years of services BY BILL FORRY The combined parish will now gather exclusively at EDITOR the St. Angela church building on Blue Hill Avenue in St. Matthew Church has closed its doors, appar- Mattapan Square for liturgies, funerals, marriages, ently forever. The building on Stanton Street in and other services. Dorchester, which has been a worship space for Fr. Paul Soper, a priest who runs the Archdiocese Catholics since 1923, held its final Mass last Sunday, of Boston’s pastoral planning office, said that a group according to the Archdiocese of Boston. of parishioners along with their pastor, Rev. Garcia The move comes three months after St. Matthew Breneville, made the decision recently. It went into and St. Angela parishes— both with predominantly effect on Oct. 1, he said. Haitian congregations in recent years— merged to “The decision to move to a single church was made form a single new entity, Our Lady of Carmel parish. (Continued on page 15) Covid ‘uptick’ ongoing concern in Boston, says Walsh; Dot areas noted BY KATIE TROJANO during a Oct. 2 press availabil- REPORTER STAFF ity outside of City Hall. During a week in which Walsh had a crisp reaction the nation absorbed the news to the outbreak of the corona- that the president and the virus at the White House: “If first lady had tested positive he can get it with all of the for Covid-19, Mayor Walsh protections around him, it just warned that Bostonians must shows that no one is safe and continue to be vigilant about anyone can get it.” viral spread, noting that here Boston officials have been has been “an uptick in the closely monitoring the city’s city over the last few weeks,” positive rate and trends, the with two Dorchester zip codes mayor said.
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