[Magdalen] Detroit Again.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

was the tiny W Bloomfield church one of 'ours'?  do you remember the name?

Lynn, grew up in/around those parts

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck

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From: "Joseph Cirou" <romanos at mindspring.com>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 12:49 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Detroit Again.

> 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 
>>> ecades  -
>>> 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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