A Catholic parish is more than a building where Mass is celebrated each week; it is often the central hub of community life, hosting everything from youth programs to educational classes to neighborhood gatherings. At Transfiguration Parish, however, the community has long lacked a dedicated space for these activities, limiting how fully parish life can flourish beyond Sunday liturgy.
To address this gap, the parish community is building a social hall designed to accommodate hundreds of people for a wide range of uses: faith formation classes, youth activities, educational programs, parish meetings, and community events that currently have no suitable venue. Maryknoll is helping bring this project to completion, supporting both the construction and the eventual furnishing of the space.
A shared gathering space embodies the Catholic Social Teaching principle of the Call to Family, Community, and Participation, recognizing that a healthy parish depends on more than Sunday liturgy alone to form genuine community bonds. In helping complete this hall, Maryknoll continues its charism of building durable local institutions capable of sustaining parish life and generating their own resources long after outside support has ended.
Gifts to this project help complete a multi-purpose social hall that will serve as a gathering place for faith, education, and community life at Transfiguration Parish for years to come.
