"Theaters are the new Church of the Masses - where people sit huddled in the dark listening to people in the light tell them what it is to be human." -1930's theater critic
Monday, June 12, 2006
Just when you think you've seen the greatest churches....
...you end up in Leon. "Now, there," I thought to myself, "is another one the Archdiocese of L.A. can try!"
The whole story here is the windows. Amazing. Monumental. Not made for us down here because we can't see their fabulous detail from ten stories below. They were made beautiful for the gaze of the Divine.
Which points to what is wrong with our liturgical art today. We are making stuff for us.
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