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Beautiful Churches; and interesting churches
Topic Started: Wednesday, 27. September 2006, 15:29 (258 Views)
Lilo	Friday, 22. February 2008, 00:16 Post #181
Posts: 743 Group: Members Member #109 Joined: December 3, 2007	KatyA Feb 21 2008, 04:20 PM Apparently, there is a Sistine Chapel in Goring-by-Sea It looks quite spectacular - has anyone seen it for real? I wish . . . . but impressive it is. God bless Gary Bevans
	The root problem in a lot of bad catechesis is ultimately not ignorance, but pride. ~ Mark Shea


Rose of York	Tuesday, 3. June 2008, 21:18 Post #182
Administrator Posts: 14,517 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	Texas has a reputation for doing things on a large scale, but it is claimed that this is the world's smallest active Catholic. St Martin's, Warrenton, Texas, is 12 ft x 16 ft, and seats about 20 people.
	$Posted Image$ Catholic and proud of it! Talk to God before Mass. Talk to each other afterwards


Lilo	Saturday, 7. June 2008, 02:16 Post #183
Posts: 743 Group: Members Member #109 Joined: December 3, 2007	Re "Hohen Dom - Germany" up above - it looks like Cologne's Cathedral.
	The root problem in a lot of bad catechesis is ultimately not ignorance, but pride. ~ Mark Shea


KatyA	Tuesday, 14. April 2009, 20:54 Post #184
Administrator Posts: 5,393 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	The Curt Jester has a posting titled If you build it, they will come. That is a phrase much bandied about in this house since Field of Dreams was a favourite film when my sons were younger so I couldn't resist. In fact he was referring to the Basilica of St. Francis Xavier in Iowa Quote: WP Kinsella based his novel "Field of Dreams" in Dyersville, Iowa, a fitting place for building a historic structure that would bring out the best in devotional interest. Kinsella wrote about a shrine to baseball, but in reality, Dyersville is the home a truly remarkable structure, the Basilica of St. Francis Xavier. I was lucky enough to get to visit SFx this weekend, and came away impressed. Read more at Society of St Barbara



KatyA	Tuesday, 14. April 2009, 21:47 Post #185
Administrator Posts: 5,393 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	I wonder if our bishops might adopt the slogan "if you build it, they will come" instead of closing beautiful churches I thought this thread might be used to share photos or links to some of our churches.



Deleted User	Wednesday, 15. April 2009, 01:04 Post #186
Deleted User	KatyA I fully support your sentiment but while I battle to save two churches that I am associated with, whose beauty lies only in the eye of the worshiper, my prayer is for more priests to come. If we pray, they will come.
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Rose of York	Wednesday, 15. April 2009, 09:43 Post #187
Administrator Posts: 14,517 Group: Admin Member #2 Joined: September 25, 2006	KatyA Tuesday, 14. April 2009, 21:47 I wonder if our bishops might adopt the slogan "if you build it, they will come" instead of closing beautiful churches I thought this thread might be used to share photos or links to some of our churches. We had an old thread with good photos of churches, so I merged the two.
	$Posted Image$ Catholic and proud of it! Talk to God before Mass. Talk to each other afterwards


Poesy	Sunday, 28. June 2009, 16:43 Post #188
Posts: 482 Group: Members Member #8 Joined: September 26, 2006	During our stay in Edinburgh, our hotel was very near a huge Cathedral, I discovered later that it's St. Mary's Scottish Episcopal Church. On entering it looked very much like walking into a very beautiful Catholic Cathedral. With the crucifixes, beautiful high altars and Reredos, Our Lady Chapel, with , and other side chapels with wonderful Gold Icons of Jesus and Mary. I was also quite impressed with a painting of a priest celebrating Mass, holding up the Chalice , whilst the spiritual presence of Our Lord is looking on. For me this painting is very moving. It is called The Presence. In King Charles Chapel, there is also the original pew, where Sir Walter Scott sat , and in a glass case some artifacts. including a facsimile of the warrant for the execution of King Charles 1st, 1649. I will give the link here where you can take a virtual tour of the Cathedral. http://www.cathedral.net/content/view/55/132/ I wonder if Tomais knows of it. Of course we attended Mass at St. Mary's beautiful Catholic Cathedral in Edinburgh , where there is a Shrine to St. Andrew. It was a baptismal Mass in which 4 babies were baptised, one little baby cried all the time. The Choir sung beautiful motets. http://www.stmaryscathedral.co.uk/standrew.html We also visited Dunfermline Abbey, my hometown, which has a perfectly preserved 13th century Abbey, with a wonderfully peaceful and spiritual atmosphere to it, and which is attached to a more modern Church which is now Church of Scotland. There is a ruined monastery associated with St. Margaret, which as children we used to freely wander through. Now it is closed off and tourists are now charged to go in. It is a very ancient centre of Christianity in Scotland with magnificent views over the estuary . Nearer to home, we attended a wonderful concert yesterday, of hymns dedicated to the Mother of God at another High Anglican Church , performed by the Choirs of St. Mary's. Absolutely gorgeous ! This Church also has a statue of Our Lady. Edited by Poesy, Monday, 29. June 2009, 08:32.
	Domine Jesu, noverim me .


CARLO	Sunday, 28. June 2009, 22:42 Post #189
Posts: 1,687 Group: Members Member #27 Joined: September 28, 2006	Poesy What a wonderful report and thanks for the information! Gloria! CARLO
	Judica me Deus


KatyA	Thursday, 2. July 2009, 22:50 Post #190
Administrator Posts: 5,393 Group: Admin Member #6 Joined: September 26, 2006	. #3 son arrived in Zaragoza today and rang (there's the first surprise) to say he had visited the beautiful Catherdral.(second surprise) There are two cathedrals in Zaragoza - La Seo and the Basilica-Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar and I assume he meant Our Lady of the Pillar. He seemed impressed, so I did a little searching and discovered that the Cathedral contains a statue of the Virgin Mary, supposedly given to St James by Our Lady herself.Unfortunately we didn't speak long enough for me to discover if he saw the statue. Needless to say, I'll be offering a few prayers to Our Lady whilst he is there. Quote: The Basilica-Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar (in Spanish Catedral-Bas�lica de Nuestra Se�ora del Pilar) is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Zaragoza, Aragon and the biggest monument in Spain. The Basilica venerates Mary the mother of Jesus, under her title Our Lady of the Pillar praised as Mother of the Hispanic Peoples by Pope John Paul II. It is reputed to be the first church dedicated to Mary in history. Local traditions take the history of this basilica to the dawn of Christianity in Spain attributing to an apparition to St James the greater, an Apostle who had brought Christianity to the country. This is the only known apparition of Mary to have occurred before her Assumption. Many of the kings of Spain, many other foreign rulers and saints have paid their devotion before this statue of Mary. St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Ignatius of Loyola, and Blessed William Joseph Chaminade are among the most outstanding ones. The Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar is one of two minor basilicas in the city of Zaragoza, and is co-cathedral of the city alongside the nearby La Seo Cathedral. The architecture is of baroque style, and the present building was predominantly built between 1681 and 1872. According to ancient local tradition, soon after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, St. James was preaching the Gospel in Spain, but was disheartened because of the failure of his mission. Tradition holds that on January 2, A.D. 40, while he was deep in prayer by the banks of the Ebro, the Mother of God appeared to him and gave him a small wooden statue of herself and a column of jasper and instructed him to build a church in her honor: � This place is to be my house, and this image and column shall be the title and altar of the temple that you shall build. KatyA Edited by KatyA, Thursday, 2. July 2009, 23:01.



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