Living Chapel under construction in Rome’s Botanical Garden
Posted on 12/03/2020 6:12:15 PM PST by marshmallow
A work of art constructed with plants, recycled material and musical harmony aims to reforest the planet, beginning in the heart of Rome, in support of the UN’s Trillion Tree Campaign. It is the Living Chapel in the Botanical Garden, a concrete fruit of the commitment to creation proposed by Pope Francis in “Laudato si’”. With us are Consuelo Fabriani and Father Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam.
Australian-Canadian composer Julian Darius Revie was deeply impressed upon reading Pope Francis’s Encyclical Laudato si’. Already in 2015 he took to heart the exhortation to rediscover “harmony between humankind and nature” and reflected on how that “harmony could be a word of music”. Therefore, “he felt personally called and tried to find a synthesis so as to represent” concretely the principles the Pontiff had brought to light. Thus the idea to create a “Living Chapel” was born. It was inaugurated this past June in Rome’s Botanical Garden. Inspired by the Porziuncola Chapel in Assisi and by Laudato si’, the work of art unifies architecture, nature, art, music and religion through the plants, recycled material and musical harmony of which it is constructed. Landscape architect Consuelo Fabriani, the director of the Living Chapel Program who supervised its construction, spoke with Vatican News about how it came about.
He tells us that the Living Chapel is a team effort, sponsored by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the contributions of Canadian architect Gillean Denny, and about a hundred students from Pennsylvania State University, Rome’s La Sapienza University, the United Nations and the Global Catholic Climate Movement.
Living Chapel under construction in Rome’s Botanical Garden
Installation
Composed of dozens of steel drums, percussion instruments which in this case are recycled barrels of oil and other material, out of which harmony “flows” from the water.............
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Perfect place to worship mother nature.
It looks pretty crowded. Great candidate for big forest fire sometimes in the future!
No trace of scientific forest management here!
Yep. The world needed one Tree, and it was delivered a long time ago. The rest is pagan nonsense in my understanding.
It looks like an aviary to keep the cuckoos, vampire bats, vultures and buzzards from escaping.
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