WEYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) – A Roman Catholic parish that lost its 134-year-old church in a devastating fire last week received encouragement from Boston Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley on Sunday.

O’Malley celebrated Mass and performed a baptism in the school auditorium of Sacred Heart School, which was spared in the fire that destroyed Sacred Heart Church.

Damage from the seven-alarm fire, which started Thursday night, forced officials to demolish the building.

O’Malley also toured the rubble of the church and blessed and kissed the cross that sat atop its steeple.

O’Malley did not say whether or not the Archdiocese of Boston will help rebuild Sacred Heart. The church, in the Weymouth Landing section of the town about 10 miles south of Boston, survived a reconfiguration that is forcing more than 80 parishes to close.

“I have great hope that our God brings good out of evil and out of the suffering, this parish will grow stronger,” O’Malley told reporters