For Good Friday: Pietà by Michelangelo

Pietà by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 – 1564)
Marble, 1499
68.5 in × 76.8 in [174 cm × 195 cm]
St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican

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Heresy of the Month: Iconoclasm

HERESY OF THE MONTH:
Iconoclasm
Core Concept: Religious art and statues are bad.
Etymology: Greek Eikonoklasmos “image breaking”
What: In 745, the Iconoclastic Conciliabulum in Constantinople declared: “Supported by the Holy Scriptures and the Fathers, we declare unanimously, in the name of the Holy Trinity, that there shall be rejected and removed and cursed one of the Christian Church [...]

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2006: May Crowning

Photo of the Day: The statue of Our Lady in position in the sanctuary for May Crowning. Photograph taken 15 May 2006.
Image courtesy of Allan Eckert.

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The Statues of Houston

Six new statues grace the Houston’s co-cathedral. Each linden-wood statue is 8 feet tall and weighs over 600 lbs. They represent three Old World and three New World saints. See if you can tell who they are:

The Archdioceses has details on these statues and the saints they represent.
In January, the Houston Chronicle posted a [...]

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Then: The Benttinen/Dreher Wedding, 1966

Parishioner Nancy Thompson shares a few images of the original configuration of Holy Trinity:
I hope you enjoy these older pictures of Holy Trinity Church. These are from when my older sister Barbara Benttinen married Robert Dreher on April 23, 1966. Father Joseph A. Meznar married them. I’m sure some parishioners still remember him.
Some things I’d [...]

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Now: Statuary, South Side

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Now: Statuary, North side

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