[Magdalen] Calvary, Pittsburgh

[Ian Gomersall]

Can anyone point to an online photo of that window?
Would be interesting to see.

Ian


Canon Ian Gomersall

Sent from my mobile device - so please forgive any typos.

> On 15 Jun 2015, at 21:26, ROGER STOKES <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> 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
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>     On Monday, 15 June 2015, 20:25, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> David,
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> 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.
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> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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>> In a message dated 6/15/2015 7:37:21 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com writes:
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>> The  church was lovely.  -  The music was  good.
>> Roger>>>>>
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>> 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.
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>> David Strang.
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