In 2001, Paul Mann started the web site DRBO.ORG (Douay-Rheims Bible Online) to preserve that translation of the Bible after noticing that they were becoming hard to get. Unfortunately, he has gone blind in his right eye in 1992, and he more recently went approximately 80% blind in his left eye due to glaucoma. Given this, along with other health conditions, he was settled into a nursing home, but at a significant cost. If you would like to help him out with costs, a fundraiser was set up to cover medical costs. Prayers, and if possible, financial support, will be greatly appreciated by Mann, as well as many of us who benefit from the work he's done.
(Due to how important drbo.org has been for me, this note is also going to be posted on my main home page.)
The Immaculate Conception Parish in Kenmore has announced that its mass schedule has been suspended with the parish celebrating its last mass on January 11th (one day earlier).
The reasons for this suspension was cited in an article published by St. Francis de Sales Parish's pastor, Fr. Jeremy Merzweiler, that Immaculate Conception "has become overwhelmed by maintenance costs, declining offertory, insufficient savings, and a decreasing parish family. For over a century, the parish has been a vital presence in the Kenmore neighborhood, and in recent years, its former school and convent have hosted several necessary services to those mist in need in the community. Fortunately, those services will be able to continue as Catholic Charities will now be assuming control of those buildings while making plans to expand its services."
Please be advised: searching for churches in the Akron area that do the Traditional Latin Mass will return outdated results and irrelevant results. St. Paul and St. Sebastian's, which search results (and especially inaccurate so-called LLM systems) consistently list as still doing the TLM. Both churches were unable to do so as of November in 2023. Other churches it suggested were parts of sedevacantist groups -- people who believe that the Chair of St. Peter has been vacant ever since a year that not everyone can agree on for some reason -- which I do not plan on linking to from here, as I do not support sedevacantism.