Christmas Catholic book gift ideas: The Spider Who Saved Christmas by Raymond Arroyo, The Night the Saints Saved Christmas by Gracie Jagla, The Catholic Catalogue by Melissa Musick and Anna Keating, Cooking with the Saints by Alexandra Greeley and Fernando Flores, Around the Year with the Trapp Family, A Continual Feast by Evelyn Vitz, Cooking for Christ: Your Kitchen Prayer Book by Florence Berger, and Drinking with the Saints series by Michael P. Foley.
This is not a church
– but wouldn’t it be a great design for one?
The architects for the new Catholic Cathedral complex in Christchurch have recently been announced. I wish them all the best for an inspiring building, and look forward to what is offered.
Sir Winston Churchill said it well: “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
I read about a Roman Catholic parish church that gutted the inside of their worship space, placed a new altar and sanctuary in the middle of the space, and seated everyone around this central, square altar. They did not change the words of the service – they changed the experience of worship by changing the layout.