Sentences with phrase «of stained glass in»

Each piece of stained glass in this Tiffany style shade is hand cut and wrapped in copper foil.

Through his invention of opalescent glass and his imaginative designing, he contributed to a revival of the art of stained glass in America and gained an international reputation.

Smith draws inspiration from the history of decorative objects and the tradition of biblical storytelling through the form of stained glass in architecture.

Action - Use colored triangular panels to create a vibrant mosaic of stained glass in Art Style: Rotohex.

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As a working pastor in the south going up for her ordination endorsement this year there a moments when I think that I'll find such relief once I'm finished with my examinations... until I remember all the stories of the «stained glass ceiling» that I've heard from my fully ordained clergy - sisters... and I realize the hard work is just going to begin next year.

Thus Schickel, whose versatile work has encompassed painting, sculpture, stained glass, furniture, and architectural design, in one of his most inspiring works turned a simple barn in his own Loveland into a quite reverent place of worship.

I drive past multi-million dollar church properties filled with throngs of wealthy people (as compared to the peoples of this world, today) sitting on cushy chairs or pews, gazing out stained glass windows, and then arrive at my destination — the haunts of the homeless, many of whom have all they own in a backpack or in a shopping cart.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

Adream, we'll kneel in pews there: flowers of stained glass above us & censers swinging by, a choir advertising wind tearing over our steeples higher & higher.

And is it true, This most tremendous tale of all, Seen in a stained - glass window's hue, A Baby in an ox's stall?

Behind them, they had left the magnificent Anglo - Catholic edifice of St Barnabas, built, with no expense spared, in the late nineteenth century and further glorified over subsequent decades with the addition of rich furnishings: a dazzling reredos in the Italianate style, a fine collection of stained glass, ornate statues and glittering banners.

They recognize that AA, for instance, is tailor - made to meet the stresses and strains of alcoholism, and they accept the fact that alcoholism, as Harry Emerson Fosdick has put it, is like a stained - glass window in that it can best be seen and understood from the inside.

He may not have been the Jesus that your mother believes in or the Jesus of the stained - glass window or the Jesus of your least favorite televangelist or the Jesus proclaimed by the Vatican, the Southern Baptist Convention, the local megachurch, or the California Gnostic.

Leaders at the cathedral have announced plans to remove images of Confederate battle flags shown in large stained glass displays that honor Civil War generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, both of whom led Confederate forces.

Even in the first years of its existence it was known for its pottery and its stained glass.

Its stories were represented in the sculpture and stained glass windows of medieval churches, and Western literature has been profoundly influenced by its characters, themes and symbols.

Yet right in the middle of town was a large, brick church building, complete with stained glass and steeples.

Sitting in a steepled building with stained glass remembrances of Jesus» life while munching a bit of bread and sipping a bit of juice somehow does not help us catch a glimpse of Jesus nearly so easily as munching some potato chips and sipping from a bottle of water alongside a group of people who live in the streets, as the coastal breezes waft the ever - present stench of urine from the nearby walls and bushes over our little group.

It is not uncommon to go into some of the poorest and most destitute communities around the world, where many of the people live in cardboard and tarpaper shacks and have barely enough food to live on, and in the middle of this community, find a large, grandly constructed church building with towering steeples, intricate stained glass, beautiful woodwork, and gorgeous hand - painted murals.

Around 1915 a local artist, Thomas O'Shaughnessy, who had studied Celtic decorative arts in Dublin and learned the art of stained glass at the Art Institute of Chicago, transformed the windows and stenciled the walls with images from the Book of Kells.

«Good Shepherd» to us means what we seen in a stained glass window, but in this country Good Shepherds come in all sizes, shapes, ages and colors — Men in jeans, boys in cowboy hats, a Navajo with lamb in hand keeping it from the coyotes — to Ezekiel, all are images of God.

In particular, I photograph houses of worship, whose bricks and clapboard, stained glass and steel are often the largest and most visible manifestations of religious faith.

Thomas Merton wrote in Disputed Questions: «Some of us would instinctively be ashamed to let a non-Catholic friend see some of the statues or stained glass windows that are found in our churches.

Catholics live in an enchanted world, a world of statues and holy water, stained glass and votive candles, saints and religious medals, rosary beads and holy pictures.

When we think of saints, we often picture statues in cathedrals, stained glass, miraculous appearances, and mystical encounters.

She continues: «The justification for the literal iconoclasm in Catholic churches could hardly have been more clearly expressed by Cromwell's Roundheads after they had systematically beheaded every image in the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral or smashed all the stained glass windows at Canterbury, although Cromwell's soldiers were undoubtedly responsible for destroying far fewer sacred images than the liturgical «experts» who imposed their views of renewal on the Catholic churches across America.»

The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many - coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity,... That Light whose smile kindles the Universe, That Beauty in which all things work and move.

A Saint is a person who — in the trite and often repeated remark of the little girl, thinking, I suppose, of the stained glass window — «lets the light shine through.»

When the homily directs their attention to one of the bright stained glass windows to illustrate a point, one can see their faces turn interestedly in that direction.

Entering St Joseph's in Yorkville for the first time, I found it a pleasure to look around — to view the exquisite stained - glass windows in the sanctuary and to peer upward at the less outstanding but still worthy ceiling murals of scenes from the lives of Jesus and Mary.

And as far as «the church», why can't they just meet in a school, house, park... why do millions of dollars have to be invested in stone, carpet, iron, wood, stained glass windows, etc..

This isn't so much a coloring book in the usual sense as simply a book of reproducible coloring pages, which feature intricate stained - glass - effect images of saints for every month of the....

This isn't so much a coloring book in the usual sense as simply a book of reproducible coloring pages, which feature intricate stained - glass - effect images of saints for every month of the year.

Why, as the white radiance comes through the dome, with all sorts of staining and distortion imprinted on it by the glass, or as the air now comes through my glottis determined and limited in its force and quality of its vibrations by the peculiarities of those vocal chords which form its gate of egress and shape it into my personal voice, even so the genuine matter of reality, the life of souls as it is in its fullness, will break through our several brains into this world in all sorts of restricted forms, and with all the imperfections and queernesses that characterize our finite individualities here below.

As a matter of fact, he had not said anything of the kind, but evidently the word «resurrection» conjured up in the minds of the men the stained glass windows in their parish churches back at home, where, in flagrant contradiction to St. Paul (1 Cor 15:36: «Thou fool»), the resurrection of the dead is depicted in ordinary human and terrestrial categories.

One of favorite Christian music groups, Casting Crowns, has experienced this also, and sings about it in their song «Stained Glass Masquerade»:

We like to think that if we don't have a record of Jesus» teachings on a matter, he must not have said anything about it, but we forget that Jesus healed, blessed, taught, and shared meals with people whose names we will never know, whose stories will never be immortalized in stained glass.

The church I grew up in has these gorgeous stained glass windows that line every wall of the sanctuary.

It was during this time that the Church developed scholasticism, built the Gothic cathedrals (with their stained - glass windows and monuments), created the universities and the hospitals, encouraged the sciences and technical progress, perfected international relations between states, abolished slavery, advanced social progress and raised the condition of women, in such a way that, in the fourteenth century, Europe had far surpassed all the other continents.

But in the midst of that stained - glass story is a peculiar sight: Straddling the magnificent cross in the center of the sanctuary, there are two flags: one Christian, the other American.

The use of color, stained - glass windows, icons, frescos, carvings, and the like, is a means by which the truths we gather around in worship are symbolically communicated.

A window depicting the Deposition and Entombment of Christ by the greatest stained - glass designer of the sixteenth century, Guillaume de Marcillat is stunning: It once hung between Pontormo's frescoes of the Angel Gabriel and Virgin Annunciate in Santa Felicita in Florence, where the grieving Mary of the window, directly above the altar, looked across at her younger, joyful counterpart of the Annunciation.

As gorgeous as this stained glass mask is, rich in its religious beauty, meeting the hungry expectations of those you support with your belief... it is just a mask.

An open Bible, candles, stained glass, and tracts in the rear further surrounded them with an identity as people of God.

It's not uncommon to come across an image of a pelican — usually stabbing itself in the chest with its own beak — in ornate stained glass windows or depicted on sculptures on the sides of churches.

But then again H. Maynard Smith warns that we are in danger today of passing from a sentimental view of the Middle Ages seen from a sanctuary where the sun irradiates the stained - glass windows, to a realistic view of the Middle Ages as seen from a gutter on a gloomy day.

In the interest of doing something a little different this year... I've made some gingerbread cookies with a stained glass candy centre.

Do not miss the stained glass in some of the old cathedrals, either.

I spent must have been 45 minutes in there in awe of the stained glass windows.

The Shottesbrooke label is adapted from the wonderful stained glass window in the transept of the church.