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In the comments to the last post Fr. V asked about general pictures of the rest of St. John Cantius. Here are a few that I recently downloaded from my camera.

On Easter Sunday after Mass I took a few minutes to head up to the choir lofts and take some pictures of the Church. Mostly, my intention was to take pictures to send to a friend who had taken over the responsibility of decorating her parish church for Easter. She wanted to see what was done in my parish... yeah, I should get around to sending these to her.

Heading into the choir loft there is this most excellent sign. I love it because it was what my HS Latin teacher would post on the board during exams. It's amazing how what was once tortuous becomes nostalgia fodder...


A view of the main Alter decorated for Easter. I have to say that the decorations were pretty much fantastic... I can't imagine how many flowers were used.


This is one of the reasons I stopped wearing hats to church... I missed being able to see the painting of the risen Christ in the apse and reading sanctus, sanctus, sanctus on the arch. Seriously - I really missed them.


The Mary Alter with an icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa (yes, it's historically a Polish parish). I will admit that I spend little to no time on this side of the Church... I am more of an epistle side kind of gal.


This is usually the St. Joseph Alter. However, for Easter it was transformed with a statue of the risen Christ and an empty tomb. Which is cool... but poor St. Joseph always gets covered up (that is where the creche is placed as well). I like St. Joseph so I always miss him when he is covered.


In some ways the best part of the church building at St. John Cantius is the sense of discovery that one can have. It is as though whenever you turn a corner, there is seemingly always a treasure to be found. In a dusty corner of the upper choir loft I saw these great statues and I just loved them. It's like some random angel is having a conversation with some random Saint.


Well, that's about all I have in photographs for now. I guess I should actually think of something to actually write and post on a regular basis. Lately all I have been doing is writing some great drafts... never quite getting around to publishing.

posted by Mary Martha @ 12:28 AM