Yes I headed to church today, I had been to this place before and although I am raised Catholic, I have never been bound by one religion. I thought it might be a good day for a change to go to church so I did and I talked with Karen - as she the minister (I assume), and I find that you gain things from various people.
Then after the mass, I asked as I did two years ago if I could take some pictures of the organ pipes. Well, after our talk, she had the caretaker turn on all the lights and I had a great time thereafter with an empty church with only one young lady playing the piano.
After than, I headed out on the highway to look for some old rustic barns or something that represented something to do with the praries and I was running out of time as I had to tend to some family matters.
While on the way home, I stopped into a family that lives on the outskirts and Dean was out there with his friend snowboarding with kites.
A rather warm day, and in due time this all too shall be "green".
I was raised Catholic too, I have been Episcopalian for the last 23 years (I am currently employed as the church secretary where I attend church), it was a good change for me.
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful church and the organ is massive...I love the abandon building too
Lovely photos
This church I did two years ago when I started taking pictures. It's located right downtown and like you I was raised Catholic, and I believe in several areas of faith. I can't tell you how interesting the talk was with what I would assume is called the Minister. But the church was built along with another church based out of Chicago. I had never know that till today. I love, I mean I really love the organ pipes and while I sat there and listened - it was tremendous. Thereafter having it empty and the ability to take as many pictures with all the light then turned on. It was marvelous.
ReplyDeleteour church is much smaller but I love taking photos when it is empty, especially of the stained glass windows
ReplyDeleteI am going to load a video and then log off as I have a few things to do here but Sunday is a day of rest...or is it? Smiling with you...:)
ReplyDeleteA very well built structure, it has seen many winters.
ReplyDeleteVery nice perspective with the symmetry.
ReplyDeleteI love pipe organs. Very nice pictures!
ReplyDeleteMuch of my family was raised Catholic, but I was raised by the rebellious grandmother who was Methodist. (She hated her treatment by the nuns when she was being raised in a convent.)
Yes I did not take it at an angle this time Lyn :).
ReplyDeleteThen and now > http://initiativestain.multiply.com/photos/album/2/Pictures_Miscellaneous
ReplyDeleteCal, I was never that faith based, but as time goes on I feel that there is a meaning for something and we can think on all the things of the world but the one thing that I do know is that everyone has there own option. I am not this or that - but I do have a faith base. As it's probably in conjunction with maturing with age. But by no means am I a perfect man nor are you or anyone we are all within an assembly of people writing from our minds and thoughts as we deem fit.
ReplyDeleteI have one picture that I have always kept in a safe place and ironically it's on my other camera which was the first I bought and it has this the one picture of the pipe organs.
Some hate things that were done, some enjoyed things. I went to a catholic academy when my father returned into Canada and I was 17 and living for one year in Ontario being taught by priests. I can say back at that time it was the best schooling I ever had received.
Lyn I wanted to get something that represented just that. But there was barb wire all around it so I could not get closer to it. My intention was to have a picture that was worth a thousand words.
ReplyDeleteNow this was fun....imagine having a kite pull you on a ski! Dean was doing this along with his friend which was having far much better luck. As you can see in the far distance there is a kite and that friend of his was moving!
ReplyDeleteNice!
ReplyDeleteI am happy for you, that you had time for some peaceful observations of our world in a spiritual setting. The kite skiing was spiritual also.
ReplyDeleteAll the pictures are beautifully framed, but I like this one the best. Churches are one of the last places in most communities where you can be made welcome even if you are stranger. And you can also slip back into the past to see such architectural and musical wonders as you have so well documented.
ReplyDeleteThank you Karyn...
ReplyDeleteNorma it's was nice now and then I do go but I had not been here in a long time. As mentioned there is one just of the same like in Chicago, I found that ironic but it's a small world after all.
ReplyDeleteAside of faith, Doug I find ever since I started doing photography that "spaces" especially ones with history behind them have something to say. The architecture combined with the reasoning for it. You really know what I mean here as it was something different for a change as mentioned before I will go now and then, I have a uncle that passed away that was a Baptist minister, as well I have a cousin that is a theologian. But your right the ponders of the what or whom developed a place as such - that I do find very fascinating. By the way I had a blood test over this last week and while waiting to having the xrays done as well as the blood tests, I found that Macleans Magazine, I asked the nurse if she would mind if I would take it and she smiled and said "who would know it's gone", as it was the October issue. But aside of that look at this ceiling and whom would have drafted up something like this. Back in my blog I have one church of the Basilica - I forget the rest of the name in Edmonton. That one was amazing and this is very close to that. But I wish I had a camera back while living in New York City as right across from Rockefeller Center was the most amazing church I have ever seen in my life - St. Patrick's Cathedral.
ReplyDeleteNo one is perfect. I'm faith based, but not religion based. There is good and bad in most any organized religion, or any other organized anything. The good probably outweighs the bad in most, though there are some that I would say the reverse is true. I don't know if you know anything about the Fundamentalist Baptist churches, but I can't agree with a church like that who claims to be teaching the ways of Christ who spend so much of their time preaching racial hatred and intolerance. Perhaps it's just one of my quirks.
ReplyDeleteOne of my high school friends teaches at a prominent Catholic college. He's always been quite intelligent, though a bit pompous and arrogant. LOL I communicate with him once in a great while. It cracks me up that he still thinks he's so far above everyone else, but he's basically an alright guy.
I would have to agree tha this is my favorite one as well....Good Shot!
ReplyDeleteVery Majestic looking. Makes me breath deeply.
ReplyDeleteThank you...
ReplyDeleteAfter went I take them I really don't know how well they will come out on here but the it's like art and very nice on the eyes.
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