[Magdalen] Calvary, Pittsburgh

[ROGER STOKES]

It now styles itself "The Cathedral of Hope" East Liberty Presbyterian Church | Pittsburgh, PA and if you look at "History and Architecture" there is a picture of a windown that could well potray the Assumption.
Roger
 


     On Monday, 15 June 2015, 20:25, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
   

 David,

Doesn't East  Liberty Presbyterian​ also have a window depicting the
Assumption of the BVM, which is another unusual thing for a Presbyterian
church? I was told they call it motherhood or something like that.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
>
> In a message dated 6/15/2015 7:37:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com writes:
>
> The  church was lovely.  -  The music was  good.
> Roger>>>>>
>
> I have my own little Calvary story.  The parish has a reputation  for
> being low church, though along with all of TEC has undergone a  pronounced
> Eucharist oriented change in the past 30 years or so.
>
> On my first visit to the church on a weekday, I browsed about, soaking  up
> the architecture and in the process came upon an altar guild little old
> lady
> futzing around the chapel to the left of the main sanctuary (? the Lady
> Chapel?).
> I asked her where the Blessed Sacrament was kept on reserve.  Stunned,  she
> blurted, "The Blessed WHAT?"
>
> Of the Cram churches in Pittsburgh, the best is, perhaps, East  Liberty
> Presbyterian Church.  This was the home parish of the Mellons of  USA
> banking fame, and they bankrolled the project and price was no  object.
> East Liberty (incidentally a leader in support of liberal social issues)
> thus possesses a sanctuary that would allow the Latin Rite  Tridentines
> to carry on a Solemn High Mass.  The Mellons have a chapel  reminiscent
> of the Royal Chapel at Granada, Spain.  The family is, after all, a  sort
> of American royalty.
>
>
>
> David Strang.
>



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