1 posted on
11/18/2011 6:12:01 AM PST by
NYer
To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; SumProVita; ...
"I only have one word to say and that's 'devastated,' " said the Rev. James Richards, who has volunteered at the Crystal Cathedral for 10 years. He said congregants want to continue to worship in their church.
They are more than welcome to stay!
2 posted on
11/18/2011 6:12:55 AM PST by
NYer
("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
To: NYer
So the so-called “Crystal Cathedral” is about to become a real cathedral.
3 posted on
11/18/2011 6:16:38 AM PST by
Fiji Hill
To: NYer
4 posted on
11/18/2011 6:18:14 AM PST by
TSgt
(whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive...it is the Right of the People to abolish it.)
To: NYer
In a letter to the court, the 85-year-old minister [Schuller] said he could not abide the thought that Chapman might someday use the cathedral for nonreligious purposes. Catholic leaders assured him, he said, that they would "take on your calling of proclaiming Christ's message to humanity" and "care for this campus like the treasure it is." Interesting that the Calvinist Rev. Schuller would side with the Catholic diocese over the Protestant school.
5 posted on
11/18/2011 6:20:42 AM PST by
iowamark
(Rick Perry says I'm heartless.)
To: NYer
will be sold for $57.5 million to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange
I have six ancestors who were buried in an unmarked grave over 125 years ago in Calvary Cemetery (NYC).
When I asked the church (St Patrick's) how to go about putting up a headstone, I was told I first had to pay over $1200 in past due maintenance fees.
You don't want to know what I told them to do with their fees.
6 posted on
11/18/2011 6:36:36 AM PST by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: NYer
Can Crystal Cathedral survive without its church? When Catholics talk of "the church," they don't mean a building. But for many congregants at the Crystal Cathedral, the church building designed by renowned architect Philip Johnson and made up of 10,000 panes of glass has become intertwined with the church's identity... "The Crystal Cathedral is the face of the ministry to the world," said Michael Nason, a church member for 39 years and past producer of the "Hour of Power." "If you take it somewhere else, down to St. Callistus, it doesn't have the same experience."
8 posted on
11/18/2011 6:41:33 AM PST by
iowamark
(Rick Perry says I'm heartless.)
To: NYer
Can we rent it out to the Church of Scientology or someone?
To: NYer
In the end, Schuller himself gave his blessing to what once would have seemed unthinkable: the conversion of his sleekly modern masterpiece in Garden Grove, a place where fresh breezes blow through open walls and church services feature talk-show-style interviews, into a Catholic cathedral redolent of incense and ancient ritual.
(*wry look*) Apparently, the author isn't very familiar with the Catholic dioceses in California; "redolent of incense and ancient ritual" isn't exactly the phrase that comes to mind. Giant puppet "Masses", heretic guest speakers, and other heterodox eye-candy are all closer to the mark. No faithful and well-informed Catholic would want to do anything to the "crystal cathedral" but demolish and bull-doze it (and perhaps salt the ground, afterward).
10 posted on
11/18/2011 6:46:07 AM PST by
paladinan
(Rule #1: There is a God. Rule #2: It isn't you.)
To: NYer
11 posted on
11/18/2011 6:49:09 AM PST by
tioga
To: NYer
At least the RC Church will save this as a Cathedral.
13 posted on
11/18/2011 6:59:22 AM PST by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: NYer; xsmommy
An Orange County bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday that the Crystal Cathedral, a monument to modernism in faith and architecture,Accidental truth in journalism.
23 posted on
11/18/2011 7:37:31 AM PST by
NeoCaveman
(Free TOTUS)
To: Pan_Yans Wife
Ping. I don’t have a cohesive opinion on this one.
24 posted on
11/18/2011 7:43:34 AM PST by
Pan_Yan
To: NYer
written in glass and steel by the Crystal Cathedral's founder and guiding light, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller. Actually it was written in glass and steel by a lot of little old ladies with check books (like my mom).
25 posted on
11/18/2011 7:56:33 AM PST by
DManA
To: NYer
Where are the “ugly church architecture” crew?
26 posted on
11/18/2011 7:57:33 AM PST by
DManA
To: NYer
Didn’t the bishop of Orange, Tod Brown, just turn 75 a couple of days ago? Shouldn’t his successor get to decide if the diocese should go deeply into debt to buy this glass-encased tribute to ugliness?
27 posted on
11/18/2011 8:37:59 AM PST by
Campion
("It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." -- Franklin)
To: NYer
They are beautiful buildings, modern-style.
They are sure nicer than the modern Catholic Churches, as I was used to all Catholic Churches looking like an Italian Catholic Church.
The modern/newer Catholic Churches are so modern you can't tell who Jesus is, who Mary might be and what all the artistic squiggles, slashes and dashes might be. As for a crucifix, not a chance. Tabernacle, maybe, stuck over to the traditional Mary-side of the altar.
These magnificent buildings WILL improve once they have a Cross on/in/around them.
Besides, the irony of it all is amusing.
To: NYer
To: NYer
He should of gave the church to his son. He is more conservative. His son quoted the bible too much. Senior thought people should not have too much verses in a service. So now the Catholic bible reading everyday.
Protestant do not have same amount of services like Catholic. We have Mass everyday. Senior knows how dedicated Catholics are for everyday service.
46 posted on
11/18/2011 10:25:33 PM PST by
johngrace
(1 John 4!- declared at every Sunday Mass.)
To: NYer
oy. the born agains are 5 years behind the world. apparently Catholics are 5 years behind the born agains.
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