Posted on 04/21/2017 7:28:04 AM PDT by mairdie
The church window of the Original Congregational Church of Wrentham, done to Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" from the Messiah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRmDO-qt8z4&list=PLYTtL1FB2XCqRlBa-eUkRBSnoioKOtXQk&index=22
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Multiple church windows of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Wrentham, done to Riu, Riu Chiu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGJk5cSqfBg&index=1&list=PLYTtL1FB2XCqRlBa-eUkRBSnoioKOtXQk
This tiny town in Massachusetts had that same interconnectivity, which made me fall in love with it. When mother died while visiting from Chicago, the neighbor across the way came over to say how sorry she was. I asked how she knew and she explained she had recognized the license plate of the mortician's car, Richard Ross, now a MA Senator, in front of our home. I had fumbled about with Richard trying to act professional while prostrate with grief but Richard refused to talk business until he had picked mother up at Mass General. He asked me to tell him about her because he didn't want to touch her until he knew who she was. I'd walk over glass to vote for Richard.
These videos were part of my set to celebrate this wonderful, tiny little town.
Best, Mary
The best in the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxVvScXxRVI
For some reason, those Chartres windows leave me emotionally cold. The profusion of color is lovely, but only intellectually interesting. Back at U of Chicago I switched in my senior year from physics to the History of Art, Near Eastern Ancient. I could sit in a room with the front projector filling the view with images that made me cry from their beauty. Schroedinger Equations never did that for me. I don’t know why this just really doesn’t reach me either. But grateful for the link.
That’s good stuff. Church-goers back then couldn’t read Latin or understand the preachers’ hocus pocus, so they shelled out for pictures they could understand.
I make small stained glass things. The light brings them to life.
Indeed - I’ve survived many a long and tedious sermon over the years by meditating on the beautiful, magical light coming through the lovely stained glass decorating the sanctuary - brought me closer to God than what most any preacher had to offer....
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