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Small spaces
Here is a favorite worship scene at our church.
Ann Fontaine
St Catherine of Alexandria
Nehalem/Manzanita, Oregon, /usa
30 November 2014
Some sacred spaces
I love your posts. I just spent a two-day retreat following Thanksgiving at the Prince of Peace Abbey in Oceanside California. This place is unique in that it was designed by a Mexican Benedictine Monk from Cuernavaca.
This monk also designed parts of the Sacred Space at the Basilica of Guadalupe (Blessed Sacrament Chapel) and the renovation of the Roman Cathedral of Cuernavaca. All very impressive spaces.
Thanks for letting me share...
Here are links to some pictures of the Abbey,
Cuernavaca Cathedral, and the Basilica.
Prince of Peace Abbey
Capilla del Santisimo Basilica de Guadalupe
Cuernavaca Cathedral
Happy Advent
Fr. Vincent C Schwahn
St. Mark's Episcopal in Van Nuys
Sherman Oaks, California, USA
1 December 2014
No worship without song
I could not agree with you more about singing hymns live in a church.
Living, as I do, in France, with only one Anglican service a month, I mostly worship at the Roman Catholic cathedral in Tours. This, naturally, does not have an Anglo-Saxon tradition of hymn singing.
On the weeks when we have no Eucharist, I have to get my 'fix' of hymns from the radio. On Advent Sunday it was a Church of Scotland celebration from my old university, St Andrews. It was a joy to hear 'O come, O come Emmanuel' and 'Lo, he comes with clouds descending'.
However, by the time this is published we'll have had our own Eucharist and I'll have sung them in the right context. A wonderful experience.
Best wishes
(The Revd) John Neal
St Alcuin of York in Tours
Tours, FRANCE
5 December 2014
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