Sentences with phrase «own stain glass»

Much like the Vancouver Club, Terminal City offers the old (stained glass), the new (Wi - Fi) and nixes cellphones (texting's allowed, so keep those #oldmoney tweets coming).

Built originally in 1890 (stained glass) and in 1985 this home was rebuilt again and renovated in the past 7 years.

The British artist David Hockney is to design a stained glass window in Westminster Abbey to celebrate... More

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.

On the inside, windows are covered in a clear red film, a cheap alternative to stained glass.

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.

It's nice and all, but it doesn't have a gargoyle that looks like Darth Vader or a stain glass window to honor the Apollo Program, so the Catholics should be jealous.

How did we go from a hay - lined manger to stained glass and marble floors?

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.

By 1969, the school and church along First Avenue were closed and another wrecking ball came crashing through the stained glass and fine masonry.

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.

All the stained glass and [fill in the blank here] does not make a good church.

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.

Stained glass is used to illustrate the Nativity, and the Ascension is shown in an alabaster panel made in Nottingham in the fifteenth century.

As an algae biologist I was initially struck by the cover graphic: a stained glass window made of diatoms, the tiny planktonic creatures whose exquisite outer shells are visible only through the electron microscope.

Washington D.C.'s iconic National Cathedral is preparing to make some changes to its intricate stained glass windows.

The Lords Supper does not have to be observed in a church building with stained glass and organ music.

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.

The statues and stained glass windows of a church building, for instance, remind spiritual wanderers of the saintly exemplars who have faced struggles similar to their own and have managed to triumph through divine grace.

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

Legislation is proposed to ban lead use in consumer goods, and the Environmental Protection Agency is taking a close look at stained glass windows.

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.

If this could be remotely true, it would be time to walk about the windows of Christ's Basilicas and, one by one, pull the blinds over the stained glass.

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.

Ornamentation (stained glass, crosses, engraved mottoes) tends to be spare.

Let's invite people into the adventure of loving God and loving others outside the brick walls and stained glass of a church building.

Stained glass windows were blown out.

«Whereas evangelical churches (and increasing numbers of mainline ones) seek to attract young people by designing spaces stripped of Christian symbols or tradition, JW people seem to like the traditional feel of the sanctuary, with its dark wood, stained glass and high ceilings.

Unlike the stained glass Good Shepherd, their skin was brown and weathered, their eyes bloodshot from the Arizona sun, and their hands callused and cracked.

«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.

I look up at the massive image in stained glass but I can't see.

Say «Good Shepherd» to most Christians, at least in this country, and chances are we see the stained glass window that I saw as a child.

After walking through the slum and trying to serve some of the people that lived there, the team I was with happened upon a beautiful brick church building, complete with steeples and stained glass.

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.

The chapel, with its intricately carved stonework, magnificent fan vaulted ceiling and beautiful stained glass windows, has seen many royal weddings and funerals.

Nor am I part of the house church movement because I dislike sermons, songs, and stained glass.

We built our Training Center with marble flooring, brass handrails going up spiraling staircases, giant stained glass windows which depicted famous fishing scenes, two huge LED screens, and a state - of - the - art sound system.

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.

To all who come, whether to be healed, to be fed, to doubt or simply to kneel beneath stained glass, Jesus insists that the church claim a story big enough to hold them all.

It arises in church board meetings when the topic is carpets, steeples, stained glass windows, and pipe organs.

Fairfield said that Anderson, a retired pastor, prefers «Anglo - Catholic haberdashery, candles and stained glass; in theology he is thoroughly evangelical; and he is open to people who pray in tongues and, with appropriate accountability, who have prophecy with wisdom from the Holy Spirit.»

The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., recently announced plans to remove two Confederate flags from its stained glass windows.

We do not need a priest's robe or a clerical collar, stained glass windows or a pipe organ.

Many years ago, Malcolm Muggeridge referred to the cover of Time as «the most coveted stained glass window of contemporary culture.»

The building was beautiful, a masterpiece of architecture with a marble foyer and picturesque stained glass.