[Magdalen] Detroit Again.

[Joseph Cirou]

Is St Joseph's Church still open? They had marvellous orchestral Masses with Novus Ordo liturgy (usually in Latin) and they included the music of Nunez-Garcia an Afro-Brazilian priest who wrote in the style of Haydn. He was one of those composers who composed music for the 5AM Matins services favored in tropical climates.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 20, 2015 1:39 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org, "Cantor03 at aol.com" <cantor03 at aol.com>
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Detroit Again.
>
>It's also interesting to google listings of Detroit churches for sale. I
>wonder if a parish in tony West Bloomfield was able to sell its property or
>simply lost it...they had a disastrous investment loss.
>On Apr 20, 2015 12:15 PM, "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <
>magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> The article on rehabilitation of abandoned homes near Downtown Detroit  MI
>> in the current issue of the USA monthly National Geographic Magazine,
>> reminded me to surf through some existing lists of abandoned and  recycled
>> Detroit churches.
>>
>> The list is long and somewhat appalling because there are so very  many
>> treasures - Detroit being a relatively wealthy city for so many decades  -
>> and the buildings are often extraordinarily lovely.  Most have  been
>> recycled into Baptist churches (probably heavily African-American).
>>  Never,
>> I suspect, have such congregations worshipped in such sumptuous
>> architecture.  The new names dubbed over the more prosaic  classical
>> Protestant and Roman Catholic names are often quite amusing.   Thank
>> God they are still used for worship.
>>
>> Of course the same sort of glut of redundant church buildings, some  of
>> which are the most magnificent in the region, goes on here locally.
>> The most beautiful Protestant church in Wilkes-Barre, built in an  Anglican
>> style with stone and exquisite stained glass (The First Baptist  Church,
>> associated with the Northern high church Baptists) is now occupied
>> by an evangelical group that ignores the spacious sanctuary and has
>> a large projection screen in front.  The most gorgeous RCC is
>> "Sacred Heart Slovak" with a 200 foot copper clad spire and the whole
>> complex is scheduled for demolition.
>>
>> So many of the local and the Detroit churches would be a treasure
>> almost anywhere else.  If only we could transport them intact!
>>
>> Sic transit gloria mundi.
>>
>>
>> David Strang.
>>
>>
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