I was doing some routine backups at home today when I came across this montage that I had seen in the past but not for a long time. It is a video collection of pictures of Christ the King Church in East Cleveland, Ohio which existed from 1928 to 2009. The most relevant years in my life in this community were the 70s and 80s. This was the church where I and many of my brothers were baptized and confirmed. This is the church where all three of my children were baptized in the very same baptismal font. A church where I spent a good deal of time at mass, in the choir loft, and as altar boy for many years. It was in this church that I gave the eighth grade valedictorian speech for the Christ the King School class of 1985. I know there is a lot of backlash against the catholic church and priests, much of it warranted, but in my time here it was never an issue for me. A number of priests were pastors here and while I was an altar boy, parishioner, landscaper, janitor, and after hours secretary in the rectory. One of these priests was highly inspirational to me and while he never actively recruited me for the priesthood, he certainly did passively (it didn’t take). I know this place from top to bottom, I have been in every nook and cranny from the roof to the hidden rooms in Shannon Hall. The physical buildings are still there; the church, the rectory, the convent and school but they are no longer Christ the King. Sometimes I still drive by. Someday I will stop back in.