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

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Vico said:
Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica and National Shrine, Chicago, Illinois.

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And tomorrow, Sept. 15, is the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. This is truly a beautiful church. If you look in youtube for Catholic masses, you’ll find a black-and-white entry of the Mass of the Resurrection, IRIC, celebrated around the 1940s or early 50s. The narrator was then-Monsignor Fulton Sheen and, of course, it was in Latin. It was filmed at Our Lady of Sorrows which, at the time, was very well-attended. During WWII and even afterwards, they would hold several rosary devotions because people would be lined up to get in! Would that we have such a problem today! If you visit, you’ll notice the wear of the marble flooring in the aisles. Today, it has very few parishoners and is maintained, I believe, by the Servites. It is also the site of the National Shrine of St. Peregrine, patron of cancer patients.

God bless,
Dan
 
This thread has filled me with the desire to travel the world and attend Mass in every country that I can. ):

Some of these places are breath taking - even just in photos.
 
danonwaveland said:
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God bless,
Dan
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Sorry, Dan. This is what happens when a newbie (me) finds an interesting thread and doesn’t realize right away that it’s HUGE. I was commenting on someone else’s commenting on a pic that was posted of the Divine Mercy statue that has been built in the Philippines. Some ppl think it’s lovely, others think it’s hideous. Sorry for the confusion.

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psr13 said:
Here is the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Quezon City, Philippines. It was the parish my husband went to until he moved to the United States.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/psr13/LourdesInside.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/psr13/LourdesOutside.jpg

This link is to a picture of the interior of the church from much further back.
flickr.com/photos/12094255@N02/1346151374/in/photostream/
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I grew up in this parish. I went to school at the attached school (Lourdes School Quezon City).
 
rosary_kat said:
Sorry, Dan. This is what happens when a newbie (me) finds an interesting thread and doesn’t realize right away that it’s HUGE. I was commenting on someone else’s commenting on a pic that was posted of the Divine Mercy statue that has been built in the Philippines. Some ppl think it’s lovely, others think it’s hideous. Sorry for the confusion.

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At least the inside of the Shrine is nice

thesplendorofthechurch.blogspot.com/2009/07/shrine-of-divine-mercy-in-marilao.html

Actually, the Divine Mercy statue is not so bad compared to the Our Lady of EDSA shrine:

http://anunslife.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/09-05-25-maryqueenofpeace.jpg
 
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Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila (pronounced, kya-pu)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2587/4107296713_00f702415e.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2489/4108061320_5125564305.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2697/4108060478_c546cca7ea.jpg

Basilica Minore del Sto. Nino in Cebu City, Philippines

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3797835728_f1dcfb7c90.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2592/3797830564_a80671ea42.jpg

This is off to the left side of where the altar is, but has a separate entrance. A replica of the statue of the Sto. Nino

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2071/3797014977_44f0cb8a44.jpg
 
Last week a group from my parish went out to help some of our newest members, the Poor Clare’s of Perpetual Adoration, do some moving in. I took some pics of the nearly completed Our Lady of Solitude (which is in Tonopah, AZ by the way) the whole photo album is here.

And here are some individual links (I can’t get the actual pics to post here).

Exterior:
flickr.com/photos/50340318@N04/5006581556/

Reredos:
flickr.com/photos/50340318@N04/5005937767/

Adoration Chapel:
flickr.com/photos/50340318@N04/5005952467/

View from behind the Grill:
flickr.com/photos/50340318@N04/5005959263/
 
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