These photos are from several years ago at my parish church in Macon, St. Joseph, aka, The Jewel of the South. I believe it is more beautiful and more liturgically functional than the not the Jewel of the South, Savannah’s Cathedral. What do you think?
Macon’s visitor’s center put up a billboard on I-75 with a picture of St. Joseph with the caption, “if these walls could talk, they would sing!” Truer words were never spoken!
Macon’s visitor’s center put up a billboard on I-75 with a picture of St. Joseph with the caption, “if these walls could talk, they would sing!” Truer words were never spoken!
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St Joseph’s church is beautiful! Nice altar rail, too.
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Beautiful overall. A small quibble, however: I refuse to allow flowers in front of the altar, and so I am leery of placing flowers in proximity thereto. To be clear, I am speaking of a free standing altar used in a versus populum manner. To my eye, such adornment diminishes the altar.
Too much red. White poinsettias would be a nice touch. Also, go along with the liturgical colors during the Christmas octave.
Did the same architect design St. Joseph's in Macon and the old Sacred Heart in Augusta?
Yes! And also Sacred Heart in downtown Tampa.
Well, thankfully the Sacred Heart in Augusta got saved from the wrecking ball, though I guess it will never serve as a functioning parish again as long as nearby Holy Trinity is in business. I suspect Sacred Heart started to lose members following the fires and flooding in Augusta during World War 1 or thereabouts and the movement of members to The Hill, several hundred feet above the flat downtown area. One thing that mars Sacred Heart today is the ending of the Calhoun Expressway, perhaps the world's shortest expressway at two and a half miles long, which crosses 13th Street before merging with Greene Street. I think the completion of River Watch Parkway around 1989 and 1990 made the Calhoun Expressway somewhat duplicative---of course Augusta National would have been in its way had it been extended beyond its current northern endpoint at Lake Olmstead---and LOL trying to build a road thru there!
Savannah's cathedral is the "not jewel of the South?" Hey, here in Atlanta, we'd be glad to trade our too small (maybe seats 700) Cathedral of Christ the King for yours, which obviously is much bigger, and more attractive than the dark, gray interior of ours. But short of that, if the Episcopalians ever go out of business (they have lost have their members since the 1960s), maybe we could take possession of Atlanta's Episcopal cathedral, which is diagonally across the street from Christ the King---the former seats a lot more and from what I hear, there is plenty of seating capacity over there on Sundays!!!!
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