Pictures of your Local Parish

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water - I like it. One of the more beautiful “planned” Novus Ordo parishes. But where is the tabernacle?
 
Oh, I see where it is it now. 👍

The traditionalist in me screams for it to be directly behind in the altar, but I like how it is up there and not in a seperate room.

Overall, I really like the looks of that parish.
 
Unfinished said:
Oh, I see where it is it now. 👍

The traditionalist in me screams for it to be directly behind in the altar, but I like how it is up there and not in a seperate room.

Overall, I really like the looks of that parish.
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The altar is huge, and I believe the tabernacle is the right place, there is a kneeler near there and people like to knee there to pray.

In the last 90 years, the church had 4 different churches built - all of them are nearby each other. I heard that one of the oldest church will become a place for weekly adoration.
 
Water,

I love your church—it is most splendidly beautiful!

I only wish others were built similarly.

Paul
 
I wish that too, but to build church like this one cost so much money. If I heard it correctly, this church costs over 30 mil.

At the new church, sometimes when I pray, I look up in the ceiling, it is so beautiful and uplifting.

People at our parish really love our pastor. He is a very good and holy pastor and he has a great support from the parishioners.

Here he is: 🙂 saintwilliams.org/pastors_page.htm
 
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Here’s an old church in Madison, WI that just celebrated it’s sesquicentennial-- 150 years!!! - Holy Redeemer Parish.
LOTS of pictures at oremusmusic.net/photos.php, I will only post one picture here.
BEAUTIFUL church, a virtual Church history done in art!
See the website for LOTS of beautiful pictures!
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This is where we normally attend mass. It’s also where we got married. There is a lot of history behind this Cathedral. We don’t have any large stained glass windows except in the Sanctuary when it was the expanded in the 1950s. This was due in part of heavy anti-Catholicism in our city during the Know-nothing era in the 1800s. They made the windows high enough so that rocks and other objects couldn’t be thrown through them. It was also during a time when it was against the law for a Catholic church to have a entrance way on a major street. It had to be on a side street or alley-way. So it was big thing when this Cathedral Basilica was built between 1846-1864. We were just donated a beautiful marble set of the stations of the cross as well as two beautiful side altars from an recently closed church built during the same time as the Cathedral. We had two side altars that were destroyed in the 80s by these hideous things that didn’t deserve to be called altars. Catholics from around the diocese and in the parish actually fought to stop the destruction of the other side altars and thankfully it was ceased. Now, those two will be restored to it’s glory. The stations are in and they are gorgeous!!!

Also the pictures don’t show the newly built tabernacle behind the altar. I’ll have to find pics of that.
 
Water,

you said that your parish church is brand new? Sweet Elizabeth! It’s so beautiful! That is probably by far one of the most beautiful churches post-Vatican II that I have ever seen.

How’s the liturgy, though?
 
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Water,

you said that your parish church is brand new? Sweet Elizabeth! It’s so beautiful! That is probably by far one of the most beautiful churches post-Vatican II that I have ever seen.

How’s the liturgy, though?
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I totally agree with that. It’s a gorgeous post-Vatican II church. Very awe-inspiring!!!
 
Water,

I love the religious art in your church, the Latin inscription at the top, some of the architecture - I just don’t like the fact that there is soooooooo much space between the altar and the wall, and that the sanctuary is soooooooooooooooooo large.

Catholig
 
Catholig said:
Water,

I love the religious art in your church, the Latin inscription at the top, some of the architecture - I just don’t like the fact that there is soooooooo much space between the altar and the wall, and that the sanctuary is soooooooooooooooooo large.

Catholig
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I understand what you’re saying, but honestly, if the sanctuary is as beautiful as that, then by golly, spread the wealth! 🙂
 
Faithful2 said:
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Here’s an old church in Madison, WI that just celebrated it’s sesquicentennial-- 150 years!!! - Holy Redeemer Parish.
LOTS of pictures at oremusmusic.net/photos.php, I will only post one picture here.
BEAUTIFUL church, a virtual Church history done in art!
See the website for LOTS of beautiful pictures!
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I didn’t mention before that the Masses at Holy Redeemer are Masses that Pope Benedict would be proud of! The choir and music choices are orthodox, too. This parish also has Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration!

:clapping: . . :clapping: . . :clapping: .

http://www.oremusmusic.net/images/gallery/HRSesquicentennial/small/171.jpg

http://www.oremusmusic.net/images/gallery/HRSesquicentennial/small/175.jpg

http://www.oremusmusic.net/images/gallery/HRSesquicentennial/small/169.jpg

http://www.oremusmusic.net/images/gallery/HRSesquicentennial/small/178.jpg

http://www.oremusmusic.net/images/gallery/HRSesquicentennial/small/180.jpg
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More pictures at oremusmusic.net/photos.php

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I understand what you’re saying, but honestly, if the sanctuary is as beautiful as that, then by golly, spread the wealth! 🙂
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These pictures people have posted are absolutely beautiful, but I agree with this. We must remind ourselves that it isn’t the building, artwork and trappings that make a church…

OK. I admit it. Our parish is meeting in a local high school cafeteria so I could be a little envious.😃
I’d need a crash course in picture posting 101 to share pictures or our mass, but I don’t think anyone would be impressed:blush:
 
VAC said:
These pictures people have posted are absolutely beautiful, but I agree with this. We must remind ourselves that it isn’t the building, artwork and trappings that make a church…

OK. I admit it. Our parish is meeting in a local high school cafeteria so I could be a little envious.😃
I’d need a crash course in picture posting 101 to share pictures or our mass, but I don’t think anyone would be impressed:blush:
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I know what it’s like to have that kind of church. Before our new Church was built, or old one was not very nice. It had white walls, and didn’t even have pews, just regular chairs. Besides that, there was the altar, and that’s about it. However, we had the most excellent priest that the plainness of the building didn’t even matter.
 
Kevin42 said:
I know what it’s like to have that kind of church. Before our new Church was built, or old one was not very nice. It had white walls, and didn’t even have pews, just regular chairs. Besides that, there was the altar, and that’s about it. However, we had the most excellent priest that the plainness of the building didn’t even matter.
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That’s very encouraging to hear.

That just goes to show that you could have the most beautfiul parish church in the area, but if your pastor is bad, then it just all goes down the drain.
 
Here’s some pics of my parish. St. Mary’s in Jackson
http://www.stmarys.tn.org/images/STMARYSCHURCH_002.JPG
This one is the entrance which is facing the school
http://www.stmarys.tn.org/images/STMARYSJACKSONEXTERIORCHURCHEASTVIEW.JPG
This is what you see from the highway in front
http://www.stmarys.tn.org/images/RECESSIONALFROMMASS.jpg
Inside after Mass, its not a great pic, but there is a wonderful story about our crucifix. It is an original, handcarved piece of artwork and the man who carved it is paralyzed and he had to be hoisted up in something to be able to carve it and put it on the wall. I think he is from a school of art in Maryland. It is a BEAUTIFUL crucifix though! (the glass windows to the left are where the Blessed Sacrament Chapel is.
http://www.stmarys.tn.org/images/INTERIOROFCHURCH-BAPTISMALFONT.JPG
And this is at the back of the church by the baptismal font.

And this one is from when it was downtown…a LONG time ago…
http://www.stmarys.tn.org/images/church1877.gif
 
wynd said:
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This is a picture from before they put in carpet and stuff, but it looks basically the same now.
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As often happens to me as I read the threads at CAF, I am stunned by the unkindness of some of the posts in response to this photo. I personally think it is quite lovely, and as another poster has suggested, it only shows one angle…how can anyone know where is the tabenacle, statues, etc.?

I have no photo of my own parish, but it is nothing special to look at. What goes on there, on the other hand, is, imo, very special…
 
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