[Magdalen] Maundy Musings.

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 03:41:42 UTC 2016


Yes, it's been more than 30 years since I was in there...

> On Mar 24, 2016, at 11:37 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 3/24/2016 11:27:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> gracecan at gmail.com writes:
> 
> .   If I'd grown up looking at that mosaic of Jesus
> over the main nave, I'd  have been afraid to go to sleep at  night!>>>>>>
> 
> Granted the mosaic of Jesus in the half-dome above the high altar is
> just a little too Nordic for me.  They have, however, completed the  mosaics
> in the half-domes of the nave now.  This is probably since you were  last
> there.  I think they help what is otherwise an unremarkable  interior.
> 
> The place is huge, however, and I anticipate my usual palpitations at
> the return of the great rear gallery Moller (pipe organ).  The  great
> space handles that organ fanfare especially well at the start of  the
> Gloria of the Easter Vigil Eucharist.
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> David Strang.
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