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Celebrate spring with Altar Guild Adventure to Chicago May 13
Spring must come! And with it the Altar Guild Adventure VI. In the lovely month of May, altar guild members and their friends will journey by luxury bus to Chicago to tour St. John Cantius, Fourth Presbyterian Church, and Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica. Make your reservations now for Tuesday, May 13 by sending a check [made out to the Diocese of Milwaukee Altar Guild] to Jane Henning, 2006 Chadbourne Ave., Madison, WI 53726. The proposed price this year is $50 which includes the bus ride, docent-led tours of the three churches, and lunch at the Café Grand Lux. We have not exhausted the beauty of sacred spaces in Chicago. These three churches offer a wide variety of architecture and history.
St. John Cantius Roman Catholic church is a product of the great migration of Europeans to the United States in the middle of the 19th Century. St. John Cantius was one of many Polish churches founded to support the growing population of Polish people fleeing the chaos in their country caused by war, partition and occupation. “On September 4, 1893, Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan officiated at the laying and blessing of the cornerstone, which carried the following inscription, ‘Awesome is this place. It is the house of God and Gate of Heaven.’ The Romanesque structure of the church is ornamented by a rich Baroque design. The solemn liturgies, devotions, treasures of sacred art, and rich program of sacred liturgical music have helped many Catholics discover a profound sense of the sacred, thereby permeating their lives with a renewed faith. St. John Cantius Church is also the home of the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius, a religious community of men dedicated to the Restoration of the Sacred.”
Another era and style of worship is represented by the Fourth Presbyterian Church. “Most of the interior and exterior of the church is ‘original,’ looking just as it has looked for almost a century. The cornerstone was laid in 1912, and the building was dedicated in May 1914. Except for the Old Water Tower, Fourth Church is the oldest building on Michigan Avenue north of the Chicago River. The architect of Fourth Church was Ralph Adams Cram, America’s leading Gothic revival architect, best known for his work on the world’s largest Gothic cathedral, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. Fourth Church is not a ‘copy’ of any one building but instead combines what Mr. Cram saw as the best of English Gothic and French Gothic styles. Highlights include many representations of angels and needlepoint. “Fourteen carved angels, each more than seven feet high, top the piers along the north and south aisles. Each of the angels is unique; many of them celebrate with instruments of praise. The needlepoint cushions in the chancel, as well as the chancel panels and cross, are the handiwork of Morgan Simmons, a member of this congregation and organist and choirmaster of Fourth Church from 1968 to 1996. Approximately 1,925,000 stitches are represented in these works.”
Celebrating its 50th anniversary of the Coronation of the Basilica by Pope Pius XII, Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica is the “historic center of Marian devotion and home of the National Shrine of St. Peregrine, patron of those afflicted with cancer, AIDS, and other life-threatening diseases.” The parish was “founded in 1874 by three Servants of Mary [Servites]. The Basilica is increasingly being recognized for the splendor of its architecture, and the history it has witnessed. Tragically, the upper stages of the Western tower were lost to fire in 1984. But the interior and the exterior brickwork have benefited from periodic and ongoing restoration in recent years, resulting in a shrine that is breathtaking to many who enter for the first time.”
Make your reservations as soon as possible as this is an increasingly popular event on the diocesan calendar!
CELEBRATE WITH US The Right Reverend Steven Andrew Miller, Bishop of Milwaukee will institute The Very Reverend Warren H. Raasch as our Eighteenth Dean Trinity Sunday, May 18, 2008 3:30 p.m. Organ Prelude 4:00 p.m. Evensong Reception to follow The Cathedral Church of All Saints 414.271.7719
Regional Confirmation Wednesday June 18, 2008 at 6:30pm @ Good Shepherd, Sun Prairie. Parishes interested in participating / sending candidates are asked to contact: The Rev. Mike Tess at fathermike@gsechurch.com or (608) 354-2866.
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