The beautiful church thread: please post photos / links to beautiful Catholic churches!

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St. Martin de Tours Church, St. Martinville, Louisiana

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St. Patrick Church, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Sacred Heart Church, Tampa, Florida
 
Sarabande said:
St. Peter’s Abbey - Oldest surviving Benedictine cloister of the German-speaking regions. Built between 1130-1143 and interior redecorated in late 18th century
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To clarify, the church itself was built in the 1100s but the actual entire abbey was founded in 696 by St. Rupert, which makes it one of the oldest Benedictine monasteries in the German-speaking regions.
 
benedictgal said:
Two years ago, I visited “enemy” territory (College Station, TX, better known as “Aggieland”; I am a UT Longhorn grad) for a job-related conference. I heard Mass at St. Thomas More Parish, in their Blessed Sacrament Chapel. It is modern, but, it was actually quite lovely.

http://www.stabcs.org/pictures/Eucharistic Chapel.jpg

You could fit about 40-50 people inside for daily Mass. It was nice and quite for 7AM.

Here is another gem. It is St. Joseph’s from St. Louis, MO, I believe:

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St. Louis does have some pretty churches.
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That’s my parish (and it’s St. Thomas Aquinas 😉 ) That’s our perpetual adoration chapel. I can’t seem to find a picture of our sanctuary, though…
 
benedictgal said:
Two years ago, I visited “enemy” territory (College Station, TX, better known as “Aggieland”; I am a UT Longhorn grad) for a job-related conference. I heard Mass at St. Thomas More Parish, in their Blessed Sacrament Chapel. It is modern, but, it was actually quite lovely.

http://www.stabcs.org/pictures/Eucharistic Chapel.jpg

You could fit about 40-50 people inside for daily Mass. It was nice and quite for 7AM.

Here is another gem. It is St. Joseph’s from St. Louis, MO, I believe:

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St. Louis does have some pretty churches.
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Oh, and Gig 'em. 🙂
 
CatintheHat said:
That’s my parish (and it’s St. Thomas Aquinas 😉 ) That’s our perpetual adoration chapel. I can’t seem to find a picture of our sanctuary, though…
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Your pastor, an Englishman, I believe, let me peak into the church to see the sanctuary. Your pastor was nice, though. I went during Advent.

The folks at the daily Mass were friendly. 🙂

I just have one thing to say: 49-9. 😃
 
benedictgal said:
Your pastor, an Englishman, I believe, let me peak into the church to see the sanctuary. Your pastor was nice, though. I went during Advent.

The folks at the daily Mass were friendly. 🙂

I just have one thing to say: 49-9. 😃
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:rolleyes: Yeah, yeah. Y’all were singing a different tune not too long ago… Luckily I’m only an Aggie by marriage!

Here’s the altar at St. Anthony parish in neighboring Bryan, TX.

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Very small parish but lovely none the less.
 
CatintheHat said:
:rolleyes: Yeah, yeah. Y’all were singing a different tune not too long ago… Luckily I’m only an Aggie by marriage!

Here’s the altar at St. Anthony parish in neighboring Bryan, TX.

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Very small parish but lovely none the less.
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I wish I would have seen it. 😦 I really love older churches and this is beautiful.

Here is St. Mark’s from Venice. If you think that it is gorgeous on the outside, just take a like at the inside:

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Here is another view. Check out the mosaics:

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And here:

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Clearly, there are no shortages of magnificent churches in my ancestral homeland!
 
Old St. Joseph’s Philadelphia (Oldest church in Philadelphia - 1733)

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If you scroll down, you can see more photos inside and out of the church. The article is a nice read as well.

organistjohn.com/OSJ_Docs/Old_St_Josephs_Willings_Alley.htm

St. Peter’s Church - Shrine of St. John Neuman (photos don’t do it any justice - really great acoustics too.)

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WhollyRoamin said:
I think you’re intentionally missing the point. Cistercian architecture is well suited to Cistercian worship.

Consider the way that the American Carthusians live in this delightful concrete box in Vermont:
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It’s appropriate to Carthusian worship. But a diocesean parish serves SIGNIFICANTLY different norms of worship.
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I’m not missing anything.

I have visited the Charterhouse of the Transfiguration which you illustrate here and, I assure you, it it far from the ideal for Carthusian life. I know a former Carthusian who did his formation at Transfiguration, then moved to Parkminster and then the Grande Chartreuse. He reports a sense of relief at being taken out of the grim granite and cinder block megaliths at Transfig.
 
Cobbfmly said:
In 1990/1991 I spent 6 months of two weeks at home then two weeks in the Chicago area. At first I went St. Margaret Mary in Naperville, IL. I was never comfortable there as it did not feel Catholic (wrong thread for going into further detail on this). I decided that since I was spending so much of my Sunday’s in Chicago proper, I would try Holy Name Cathedral. I loved it!

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The CFD just put out a fire at Holy Name. It seems to have seriously damaged the roof. Sad, they just got back in the Cathedral recently. No one was hurt in the fire, though one fireman was hurt in the efforts to put out the fire. The Blessed Sacrament was removed.
 
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