Out with the New--In with the Old
The Washington Post reports about a large new church in Gainesville, VA, that is nearing completion.
An excerpt:
Parishioners in western Prince William County will celebrate the opening next month of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, an $18 million, 80,000-square-foot spiritual home and community center for thousands of people in the Gainesville area.
With large stained-glass windows and an Irish Gothic-style design, the church will bring a traditional, Old World look to an area known for new subdivisions. Holy Trinity will serve more than 2,000 families, said the Rev. Francis J. Peffley, its pastor.
There are more pictures at the WaPo website. It is good to see that some sensible Catholic architecture is making a comeback, if that is the case. The Catholic church below is in Collegeville, MN, I believe. I include it here for no special reason other than to wish that maybe it was all just a bad dream after all.
2 comments:
the 2nd photo would be the Church at St. John's Benedictine Abbey and University.
I feel its important to point out that Holy Trinity (a beautiful cruciform church) is in Gainsville Virginia, not Maryland. The parish is part of my diocese, the Catholic Diocese of Arlington.
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