Your favourite churches...show us!

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Church of Saint Maurice, Olomouc, Czech republic
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Whoa, that’s interesting! I’ve never seen a Church with a facade like like that!
 
I hesitated about sharing this, since it isn’t a church, but here is a picture I took last week while I was staying with the Sisters of saint Maurice :

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It depicts saint Maurice waiting for his execution, and the text says:

You can see here what Christian courage looks like:
It doesn’t stand, it doesn’t brandish its sword;
It kneels like patience,
Its hands folded in prayer and its blade turned toward the ground;
It is ready for anything,
But it expects everything from God.
"In quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”
 
Cathedral of St. Theresa in Livingstone , Zambia

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Dan_Defender said:
Interesting… but to me ‘espérance’ means hope not trust, am I wrong?
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Yes, you’re right 😉
But it’s a Bible verse (Isaiah 30:15), and although, as the use of “espérance” struck me as an uncommon translation, my first impulse was to go and check the Hebrew text, it was late at night and I decided to go with a ready-made translation in English 😜
 
Sacred Heart Basilica in Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand:

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Photographs I took around 2 weeks ago of St Mary’s Catholic Church in Taihape, Manawatu-Whanganui, New Zealand:

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And another one I did not take:

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St Patrick’s Cathedral in Auckland, New Zealand:

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Long serving Bishop Patrick Dunn, Bishop of the Diocese of Auckland since 1995, standing in his cathedral:

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I was baptised by the bishop’s cousin, a parish priest.
 
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St. Mary Cathedral Basilica - Galveston, Texas, United States

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Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

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St Patrick’s Basilica, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand:

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Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church, located in the Wellington, New Zealand suburb of Tawa - rather typical for a post-Vatican II suburban parish church in NZ:

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San Antonio Catholic Church in the Wellington, New Zealand suburb of Eastbourne:

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Latin Mass celebrated in the church in accordance with Pope Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum:

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Five Wounds Portuguese National Church (ICKSP)
San Jose, California, USA

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St. Ignatius of Loyola
(University of San Francisco)
San Francisco, California, USA

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