DUTCH REFORMED, REV. DOCTOR ROBERT SCHULLER’S CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL IN ANAHIM, CALIFORNIA SOON TO BE FULLY INITIATED INTO THE FULL COMMUNION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND GIVEN THE CHRISTIAN NAME, CHRIST CATHEDRAL
For another perspective, here’s a brief look at the interior:
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Victor
said...
"...the beautiful Christ Cathedral building." This beauty is a triumphal beauty created by man, not a beauty derived from God. Western man has lost the sense and perception of divine beauty, the result of the Modernist perversion that "Form follows function".
LOL! In the South where the Catholic Church is growing, a couple of new cathedrals have been constructed in the Roman style, so what's your point? The diocese may be growing because they have a conservative, orthodox bishop, not due to the style of architecture.
Once this sanctuary has been "baptized" for Catholic worship, it's modernistic origins begin to fade away. Any structure, no matter what it was formerly, begins an existential "beautification" when it becomes a home for Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.
As a slight corollary, my "future list" of structures I have giddy fantasies of becoming Catholic one day include:
East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh. Riverside Baptist, New York City. Hallgrimskirk, Reykjavik. First United Methodist, Wichita, Kansas St. Michael's Cathedral, Coventry, UK
10 comments:
"...the beautiful Christ Cathedral building."
This beauty is a triumphal beauty created by man, not a beauty derived from God. Western man has lost the sense and perception of divine beauty, the result of the Modernist perversion that "Form follows function".
All the warmth of Antartica. This is sooooooooooooooo 1970s
Is this really a good idea? Does it have any connection to any tradition except through parody?
Well, at least it is a growing diocese---more than I can say about the many dioceses up North with "traditional" architecture...
Anonymous,
LOL! In the South where the Catholic Church is growing, a couple of new cathedrals have been constructed in the Roman style, so what's your point? The diocese may be growing because they have a conservative, orthodox bishop, not due to the style of architecture.
Victor:
Once this sanctuary has been "baptized" for Catholic worship, it's modernistic origins begin to fade away. Any structure, no matter what it was formerly, begins an existential "beautification" when it becomes a home for Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.
As a slight corollary, my "future list" of structures I have giddy fantasies of becoming Catholic one day include:
East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh.
Riverside Baptist, New York City.
Hallgrimskirk, Reykjavik.
First United Methodist, Wichita, Kansas
St. Michael's Cathedral, Coventry, UK
And a few others.
Gaudete in Domino Semper!
I suppose for what was going to be built for the Cathedral....it could have been worse...
No kneelers.
There are kneeler sitting on the pews ready to be attached in the proper way. This is in the first video.
Oh, y'know, I forgot one (protestant church I can't wait to see Catholicized).
I should have added First United Methodist in San Diego.
With that chancel, organ, and altar set-up, it'd make a heck of a collegiate church for some future order of Canons.
;-)
Gaudete in Domino Semper!
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