[Magdalen] VTS Chapel,

[Judy Fleener]

Marcel Breurer also designed St. Francis De Sales parish Church in
Muskegon.  It closely resembles a concrete bunker from the outside.  You
can see pictures by googling the parish name and Muskegon.  The interior is
cold and of very strange scale.  I do not like the place and I do like
contemporary architecture in churches generally,  people babble about how
beautiful our neo-gothic building is at St. Paul's Muskegon.  I find it
confining and inaccessible.  Maybe I am just grumpy this AM.  Why could
that be?  Oh, yes, the Cubs lost last night.

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:

> I attended a memorial service in the new VTS chapel this past July.  The
> chapel is quite modern but beautiful.  A raised altar is central with
> seating in the round 3/4 way around and the organ and choir on the far
> wall...this lines up directly with the baptismal font which is located in
> the entrance.  I know very little about church archeticture, but found The
> Chapel for the Ages a fine worship space.
>
> Ginga
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 10/9/2015 10:59:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > scottknitter at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Perhaps  this is to allow for the vestments and the people in them to
> > add the  missing color and life? This seems to be what happens at St.
> > Mary  Magdalene, Toronto, whose sanctuary looks positively whitewashed
> > and very  empty until Mass starts and people come  in.>>>>>>>>>>
> >
> > This is a valid design feature.  The famous poured concrete  Abbey
> > at Saint John's University in Minnesota by Marcel Breurer was
> > purposely left gray and plain, and the intention was to give the
> > color via the liturgies.
> >
> > However, with the low church history of VTS, there will probably
> > not be any Solemn Masses with deacon/subdeacon/celebrant,
> > though I think they have graduated to chasubles.
> >
> >
> >
> > David Strang.
> >
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan