Just over two months have passed since last March 29, when Father Francesc Novella celebrated his last mass at the oratory of Sant Felip de Porreres. Since that day, the temple has kept its doors wide open, a situation that has gone from initial sadness to indignation and bewilderment among the faithful. The community, the vast majority of whom are elderly people, do not understand why the space remains inactive, even though the institutional promise was that it would reopen for worship more or less immediately.

The parishioners of Porreres who are faithful to the Sant Felip Neri oratory will be left without a church after Palm Sunday, March 29th, the date on which Father Francesc Novella will celebrate his last Mass and lock the church doors. The closure will mark the end of an important part of the town's history and, of course, the end of a chapter in Novella's life, as he has led the oratory for nearly 30 years. For some time now, various reports have pointed to the closure of Sant Felip. In fact, during the prayers at Mass for several months, Francesc Novella had been asking for the oratory's continued operation. However, it caught the attention of the faithful that he had stopped including this prayer in recent Masses, which could mean that its continued operation had been guaranteed or, conversely, that the closure of the center was a firm decision.