ArchitectColorado 2: Holy Trinity Renovation

The summer 2009 issue of ArchitectColorado includes two features on projects at Holy Trinity. ArchitectColorado is the professional journal of the Colorado Component of the American Institute of Architects. Our architect, Adam Hermanson is a member of the AIA. This issue has a focus on religious architecture. Holy Trinity and Integration Design Group are featured in [...]

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Let’s Play “Church or Prison?”

Courtesy of Carolina at The Crescat, here’s an interesting contest. The goal is to correctly tag images of 12 structures as either a Catholic Church or as a Prison/Utilitarian structure.  So far, nobody has it right yet.
Here are a couple of samples so you can see what she’s talking about:

Hat tip on this one to [...]

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Eight Historic Italian Churches

8 Wonderfully Distinctive Historical Churches in Italy: Awe-Inspiring Architecture, Byzantine to Baroque

On the WebUrbanist blog, Lauren Axelrod has a quick photo tour of eight beautiful churches in Italy. The styles range from Byzantine to Baroque. Click the image above to link. The eight churches are:

St. Peter’s Basilica (Vatican City)
San Pietro in Vincoli (Rome)
Basilica di Santa [...]

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Abp. Coleridge on Beauty in Worship

Last week, The Most Reverend Mark Coleridge, Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, wrote a pastoral Pentecost Letter on the Liturgy to his archdiocese. The Archbishop issued new instructions as the Australian bishops begin the full implementation of their new General Instruction for the Roman Missal (GIRM). The archbishop points out that “The new version of [...]

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Frazier on Beauty in Worship

Russians tell the story of how the pagan ruler of Kiev, King Vladimir, desired to learn which of all the world’s religions was the one revealed from heaven.
His emissaries traveled to the far corners of the known world to learn how different people believed and worshiped God. They observed Jews pray in their synagogues and [...]

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Houston’s New Co-cathedral

On 2 April 2008, the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston will dedicate a new co-cathedral in Houston with 60 bishops attending. The new cathedral has a cruciform shape, and seating for 1,820. The altar will contain relics of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American saint, St. Leo the Great, St. Therese of Lisieux, and St. [...]

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Lileks on Beauty

Writer, blogger and essayist James Lileks has an interesting riff on the idea of beauty. Lileks writes for the Minneapolis Tribune, and also maintains his own web site at Lileks.com. He grew up Lutheran in Fargo ND, and is the same age as my loving wife. I always appreciate his view, so I check his [...]

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A Meditiation on Noble Beauty

As part of our discernment, the committee has been discussing the concept of “noble beauty.” In some ways this discussion echoes the Supreme Court’s decision saying “We’ll know it when we see it.” The Supremes were talking about another topic, but the idea that a description can be limiting is important.
For me, noble beauty is [...]

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