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Years ago, before St. Henry's Roman Catholic Church was built in Pompano Beach, they had a sort of circuit-riding parish in this part of Florida. Mass was celebrated in whatever shelter could be secured, and there was one odd period when the priest said Mass at the Pompano Park Harness Raceway. Then, ten years ago, the diocese found 4½ acres along the Cypress Creek Canal, in an area of warehouses-Waterbed City is just across the street-and a little church was constructed. It has a coral pulpit...
...small church can have a lot going for it. You're closer to the altar, closer to each other and maybe closer to God." One night, however, during a social affair, when the bar was set up in the only commodious spot, right by the confessional, the priest decided they might be carrying closeness...
...priest had a vision. "I wanted to have the lives of the families revolve around the parish, their social lives as well as their spiritual lives. For example, if a young person was presented with a red-hot temptation, I wanted him to turn to the parish and not have to ask, 'Well, what has the church ever done for me?' " Reynolds wanted a building that would be used night and day, offering something to everyone. And somewhere along the path of his Irish cogitations he paused at a friendly village pub, a place that draws people away...
...back, "Many people make Henry's Hideaway a happy place by coming. Others by leaving," and the privilege of purchasing beer or wine for $ 1, mixed drinks for $1.25. Father Jim, as Reynolds is called, anticipated the puns, so the first drinkers had to endure the priest's own pre-emptive patter: holy water on the rocks; Blue Nun; we specialize in Christian Brothers. The bar rolled merrily along until midsummer, when a sorehead entered the equation...
...Aries in 1888 was a torpid provincial town, as filthy and exotic-at least to a Parisian eye as North Africa. Van Gogh's first reactions to it describe a foreign country. "The Zouaves, the brothels, the adorable little Arlésiennes going to their first Communion, the priest in his surplice, who looks like a dangerous rhinoceros, the people drinking absinthe, all seem to me creatures from another world." In fact, his stay there began the general pattern of migration southward that would be as obligatory for early modern French artists-Signac to Saint-Tropez, Matisse to Nice...