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Tridentine Community News (December 25, 2011): King of the bus tours Michael Semaan has outdone himself this time. Not only has he put together a riveting two-day tour of ten of Chicago’s most famous historic churches on Thursday and Friday, December 29-30, he has also secured permission for Extraordinary Form Masses to be celebrated in two of them. One of North America’s best-renowned churches for reverent celebrations of Holy Mass in both the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms, St. John Cantius Church is known as a source of Latin Mass tutorial materials. The ubiquitous Red Missals were originally designed for this parish. More recently, they published Michel Ozorak’s book of Chant Sheets. Mass [was] celebrated there on Thursday, December 29 at 1:15 PM. On Friday, December 30 at 10:00 AM, the first public Tridentine Mass in over 40 years [was] celebrated at the stunning St. Mary of the Angels Church, currently administered by priests of Opus Dei [below photo © 2009, Jeremy Atherton]. Originally threatened with demolition, St. Mary enjoyed a renaissance in the 1990s and has been restored to its original opulent appearance. Both Masses [were] celebrated by Detroit’s own Fr. Titus Kieninger, ORC. Music [was] provided by Detroit’s St. Joseph Cappella. St. Josaphat and Windsor’s Assumption Churches [provided] the altar servers. It [was] a great privilege for our Detroit Latin Mass team to be a part of this memorable event. [Two tour buses were taken from Metro Detroit. Both Masses were open to the public.] A Hidden Gem: The Rosary Chapel at Windsor’s Assumption Church It’s not all that unusual for a parish to have a secondary chapel for Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Few parishes, however, have a chapel as distinctive as the historic Rosary Chapel at Assumption Church. Seating approximately 70 people, the Rosary Chapel is used for Morning Prayer, weekday Mass in the Ordinary Form, and Eucharistic Adoration. Built in 1907 and restored a decade ago, it sports a High Altar, a Communion Rail, magnificent stained glass, and that rarest of features in an historic church, air conditioning. Despite its small size, it contains three confessionals. Though it lacks an organ, its live and reverberant acoustics make an excellent setting for a cappella music. Because of two recent events in the main church, the Tridentine Mass has been held in the Rosary Chapel twice over the past month, a different but inspiring experience. Visitors to Assumption should make a point to stop in to the chapel to see another one of our region’s architectural marvels. Tridentine Masses This Week Mon. 12/26 7:00 PM: High Mass at St. Josaphat (St. Stephen, Deacon & Protomartyr) Tue. 12/27 7:00 PM: High Mass at both Assumption-Windsor and St. Josaphat (St. John, Apostle & Evangelist) Wed. 12/28 7:00 PM: High Mass at St. Josaphat (Holy Innocents)[Comments? Please e-mail [email protected]. Previous columns are available at www.stjosaphatchurch.org. This edition of Tridentine Community News, with minor editions, is from the St. Josaphat bulletin insert for December 25, 2011. Hat tip to A.B.]

Church architecture refers to the architecture of Christian church buildings. It has evolved over the two thousand years of the Christian religion. Given below are the fundamental features which are used in church architecture.

Vertical panorama of the altar in St. Augustine & St. John Church in Dublin. View On Black

Purcell have been conserving the fabric of the magnificent Canterbury Cathedral for over twenty years.

View of the main section of Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland

Some subjects just lend themselves to amazing imagery. The interiors of religious structures like cathedrals are one of those subjects. We think that this collection brings that through beautifully. Some might break the occasional photographic 'rule' like converging verticals or overcooking the saturation - it's just that we're having one of those days where we don't really care. Sometimes it's just great to look at gorgeous subjects taken for the pure pleasure of it. Enjoy, and share yours in the comments! Sole D Alessandro Peter H Ferran Fusalba Rosello Aaron Burden HK Photo Nicolas Brigante Grant Whitty Sam Barber Chad

From depth of field to dedication to detail, Peter Marlow’s technical notes reveal how his project photographing every cathedral in England was as much a labor of love as it was skill.

Its latest undertaking shows how steeped in anachronism and completely out of step with the modern world, the roman catholic church is. Not unless you have been living under a rock lately, you will…

Everything you need to know to plan your visit to the world's northernmost medieval cathedral in Trondheim, Norway, including things to see and do, and where to say.

Photographed in Vienna. For nature images of South Florida, please visit me at: pedrolastra.com © 2008 by Pedro Lastra This image is copyrighted material as indicated!

Ely Cathedral was built by William the Conqueror as a prominent outpost after the bloody and lengthy rebellion by Hereward the Wake. Ely Cathedral (in full, The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely) is the principal church of the diocese of Ely, in Cambridgeshire, England, and the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Ely. It is known locally as "the ship of the Fens", because of its prominent shape that towers above the surrounding flat and watery landscape. View On Black

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“Catholicism is beautiful”

Learn the easy tools to identify a gothic cathedral and how to appreciate the craftsmanship and ellaborate design that went into its construction.

During week five of confinement in Normandy I floated the concept of wearing sweatpants. As it turns out, wearing sweatpants in France is still a faux pas.

In 2020 discover the gravity-defying Beauvais Cathedral. Although incomplete, the Gothic cathedral holds the world record for the heights of its vaults!

From the medieval wooden stave churches to a modern take on cathedrals, Norway is packed with fascinating churches and cathedrals. Many are open to tourists.

This guide to a day trip to York has everything you need to spend a day in York, England. From the minster to the walls, there's a lot to do.

Aachen Cathedral is one of the oldest Roman Catholic churches in northern Europe. Its construction was ordered by Charles the Great, Charlemagne, also

Ely Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in the English city of Ely, Cambridgeshire. The cathedral has its origins in AD 672 when St Etheldreda built an abbey church.

Normally I wouldn't consider myself a buttress man, but flying buttresses get me every time. These sexy copper-topped flying buttresses are best seen about half-way up the spiraly climb to the top of the Strasbourg Cathedral's rooftop viewing platform. See where this picture was taken. [?]

This church looks short and squat from the outside and sits uncomfortably in it's little square, bulging, an ugly duckling! The exterior fails to suggest any majesty compared to Vienna's other large palaces of worship such as Stephandom & Karlskirche, but then you go inside! The baroque interior is so busy and heavy with detail that it is impossible to take in what you are seeing. You need to take a picture so that you can study it later and decipher the church's mysteries... or alternatively sit through a very long service!

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Gothic fan vaults designed between 1351 and 1370. The floor is covered in tombstones, whose inscriptions are more or less faded from centuries of people stepping on them. The composition is not perfect, it might be better if the door was lower down in the frame but I wanted to keep the first stone as the writing and pattern is beautiful

Beautiful light falls on a side chapel in St Nicolas, the cathedral church of Fribourg.

York Minster is the second largest Gothic cathedral of Northern Europe and clearly charts the development of English Gothic architecture from Early English through to the Perpendicular Period. The present building was begun in about 1230 and completed in 1472.

Church architecture refers to the architecture of Christian church buildings. It has evolved over the two thousand years of the Christian religion. Given below are the fundamental features which are used in church architecture.

This church looks short and squat from the outside and sits uncomfortably in it's little square, bulging, an ugly duckling! The exterior fails to suggest any majesty compared to Vienna's other large palaces of worship such as Stephandom & Karlskirche, but then you go inside! The baroque interior is so busy and heavy with detail that it is impossible to take in what you are seeing. You need to take a picture so that you can study it later and decipher the church's mysteries... or alternatively sit through a very long service!

Call it divine intervention. After three years of restoration, plus six of master-planning, the housands of square feet of scaffolding have finally come down from St. Patrick's Cathedral in Midtown, just in time for Pope Francis's late September visit, an unplanned yet fortuitous synchronicity.