Pictures of your Local Parish

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kleary said:
Lacking Catholic teaching by no statues, no tabernacle and no crucifix.

Sad indeed.
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Hmmm…not so fast. This is only one angle, i’d bet some money that there is a tabernacle in the church, just not from this view. There may or may not be statues - again, we only know that there aren’t any from this view - which is okay, since the focus of mass is not statues. And as for a crucifix, there’s something directly front-and-center in the shape of a latin cross with a body hanging on it. Smells like crucifix to me. Directs my attention to the sacrifice of the mass happening directly below, where the lines of the architecture focus anyway.
 
Wow, so many beautiful Churches.

I hate being in a Diocese which has built most of it’s Churches after the 60s
 
DustinsDad said:
St. Francis de Sales Oratory in St. Louis, Missouri - also known as “The Cathedral of South St. Louis” - seen from the outside:

http://www.institute-christ-king.org/images/StFrSalesExt_001.JPG

And from the inside…

http://www.institute-christ-king.org/StLouis/images/Picture034.jpg

http://www.institute-christ-king.org/StLouis/images/IMG_3683.JPG

The inside images are from a Pontifical High Mass this past summer with Archbishop Raymond Burke.

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Absolutely stunning! How could anyone not feel uplifted in such an environment?
 
Some of the most beautiful churches here in Kansas City are in the Paseo/Prospect/Troost corridor. In the late 60’s there was a massive exodus out of those areas due to the race riots (national guard and tanks in odd places, fires, shootings, looting it was bad). many of those once beautiful churches are gone, one is owned by the SSPX, several others are now baptist and pentacostal parishes. People just gave up and left. It hurts to see a once magnificent chuch now having tent revivals.
 
Eliza10 said:
I’ll say! And the Jesus looks more like a hanging Judas Iscariot! Grotesque!
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Grotesque is right. And disturbing. I’d rather have one of those “risen Christ” crucifixes than that thing hanging over my head.
 
Out here in the Pacific Northwest, churches tend to come smaller. Here is Sacred Heart Parish in Klamath Falls, Oregon. It might not compare with some of the magnificent churches in your photos, but the interior still has a beautiful altar with white, gold, and red colored marble. I have visited here many times and it is a very prayerful place.

sacredheartkf.org/AUT_0171a.jpg
 
Here is an online tour of my Church (St. Ann) with audio if anyone is just thaaaat interested:

stannparish.org/flashtour/show.php?slideShowID=c81e728d9d4c2f636f067f89cc14862c

for those who aren’t though, here are some pics:

http://wiz.spiralfx.com/stann-dev/pics/ctour_tour_detail.35.image_name.jpg

http://wiz.spiralfx.com/stann-dev/pics/ctour_tour_detail.45.image_name.jpg

http://wiz.spiralfx.com/stann-dev/pics/ctour_tour_detail.38.image_name.jpg
^St. Kilian Chapel [Retablo & Crucifixion Scene]
John 19: 25-27 Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

http://wiz.spiralfx.com/stann-dev/pics/ctour_tour_detail.18.image_name.jpg
^Marian ‘Niche’

http://wiz.spiralfx.com/stann-dev/pics/ctour_tour_detail.17.image_name.jpg
The Altar & Apse Painting [The Transfiguration]
Mark 9:1-9 And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.” And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves; and he was transfigured before them, and his garments became glistening, intensely white, as no fuller on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses; and they were talking to Jesus. And Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is well that we are here; let us make three booths, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” For he did not know what to say, for they were exceedingly afraid. And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.” And suddenly looking around they no longer saw any one with them but Jesus only. And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of man should have risen from the dead.

stannparish.org/ctour/about/index.html

I looove my Church:D . We also have another water feature on one side and a Children’s Prayer garden with a statue of Mary.
 
Wow, amazing pics. I wish my church was so awe inspiring, but it is ultra plain. My sister who is an architect thought it looked like it had originally been designed to be a Protestant church, then just modified to accommodate the fact that it really is a Catholic church. Most of the churches around here are pretty modern, with the exception of the missions of course.
 
ChemicalBean said:
Hmmm…not so fast. This is only one angle, i’d bet some money that there is a tabernacle in the church, just not from this view. There may or may not be statues - again, we only know that there aren’t any from this view - which is okay, since the focus of mass is not statues. And as for a crucifix, there’s something directly front-and-center in the shape of a latin cross with a body hanging on it. Smells like crucifix to me. Directs my attention to the sacrifice of the mass happening directly below, where the lines of the architecture focus anyway.
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There is a tabernacle in its own room. There are a few statues in a couple of corners. The crucifix you see is a “touchdown Jesus” cross. The thing I don’t understand is there is a beautiful, similarly-sized real crucifix in one of the hallways. I wish we could just use that one.

To be fair, the new pastor is trying to turn things around. He’s trying to raise money for new stained glass windows and communion dishes (currently they’re all glass/crystal) and he wants to move the tabernacle back to its rightful place.
 
Catholic29 said:
Romanesque revival with Slavic-Byzantine onion domes and crosses, a nice adaptation. One can definitely tell its an Eastern rite church.
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St. John the Baptist was originally built as a Lutheran church, the Greek Catholics took it over and added the onion domes 90 years ago.

There’s a lot of that here in Pittsburgh, the original congregation moving on and the new migrants to a neighborhood taking over the church building. A few blocks away from this church is a church which was built by Greek Catholics, taken over Ruthenian Presbyterians, then black Methodists. Now its a bar.
 
arieh0310 said:
And this is the indult parish I go to 1-2 times a month, St Boniface in Pittsburgh, PA:
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St. Boniface is a disturbing church building. It was built as a parish church many years ago, yet except for a handful of houses, the parish has been razed and the neighborhood is a superhighway across the street.

I’m not sure what to make of it, architecture is supposed to take into account the environment and neighboring structures, which are a lot different now that what was intended when St. Boniface was built.

Seems like a ghost town today.
 
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