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  Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is the motherchurch of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is a cathedral church of the United States in the City of Los Angeles in California.
Among the artworks commissioned for the cathedral are the sculpture of the Virgin Mary and the ceremonial bronze doorways by Robert Graham, the tapestries of the communion of saints by painter John Nava, and the plaza fountain by Lita Albuquerque.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cathedral_of_Our_Lady_of_the_Angels   (732 words)

  
 Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Image:Ourladyoftheangelsdedication.jpg The archdiocese is led by the prelature of an archbishop, concurrently the pastor of the motherchurch Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
The cathedral was dedicated on September 2, 2002 and replaced the former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Our Lady of the Angels Pastoral Region, covering Downtown and central Los Angeles west to Malibu, south to LAX
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archbishop_of_Los_Angeles   (499 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
A cathedral is a Christian church building, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Anglican, Roman Catholic and some Lutheran churches, which serves as the central church of a diocese, and thus as a bishops seat.
The former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana was the motherchurch of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Baptistery (Baptisterium in Latin), the separate hall or chapel, connected with the early Christian Church, in which the catechumens were instructed and the sacrament of baptism administered.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cathedral-of-Our-Lady-of-the-Angels   (1646 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Taste
A successful Catholic cathedral, measured by architectural theology, is a work of art that acknowledges the greatness of the church's architectural patrimony: It refers to the past, serves the present and informs the future.
Our Lady of the Angels, however, springs from the fashions of the day and the whims of its designer.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is not about the people of God, not about the Catholic Church, her saints, her traditions, or her faith.
www.opinionjournal.com /taste?id=110002263   (774 words)

  
 National Catholic Reporter: A cathedral grows up in the city; designer juggles concept, costs, critics and cardinal to ...
The cathedral offices, the cardinal's residence and rectory above the parking lot on the eastern edge of the cathedral plaza are darker hues, closer to graham cracker crust-colored.
Cathedral main entrances generally are centered at the teat of the church for easy access and processional purposes.
Our Lady of the Angels is entered through that main portal to the south side of the altar and down a 300-foot-long corridor lined on one side by shrines and on the other by a plain wall.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_24_38/ai_86044684   (1373 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - L.A. cathedral to soar as house of harmony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The cathedral, with its 3,000-seat main church, 11 chapels, bell tower, conference center and public plaza, fills 5 ½ acres wedged between the 101 Freeway and the Civic Center, within blocks of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Disney Music Hall.
He wants the cathedral complex to be a West Coast counterpart to St. Patrick's in New York City — "a sacred space for all." The first civic event will be Sept. 11, when the city's commemoration will begin at City Hall and include a public processional to the cathedral for an interfaith prayer service.
Our Lady of the Angels, designed to stand for three centuries to come, will serve a tri-county region of 4 million Catholics that could be a microcosm of 21st-century blessings and challenges.
www.usatoday.com /news/religion/2002-08-28-catholic-church_x.htm   (594 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd
The Institute of the Good Shepherd is a branch of "Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge", founded by Blessed John Eudes, at Caen, France, in 1641, and approved by Alexander VII, 2 January, 1666, its constitutions being approved by Benedict XIV, in 1741.
According to the custom of his time, the Blessed John Eudes ordained that "Our Lady of the Refuge" should have no mother-house, but that every house founded by this order should be a distinct community, having its own administration, and being united to the other houses only by bonds of fraternal charity.
Leo XIII received supplications from numerous cardinals, archbishops, bishops, several cathedral chapters, rectors of colleges, and universities, hundreds of priests, and many noble families, begging him to dispense from ordinary ten years' interval required before the continuation of the cause.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06647c.htm   (1336 words)

  
 Archdiocese of San Francisco | Archbishop's Columns
Our churches are not, and must not be, matters of indifference to us.
I remember seeing the placement of the 120 huge "isolators" on which the cathedral foundation now rests; they are designed to allow for movement of the building during an earthquake to prevent damage and collapse.
May Mary, Mother of the Church, watch over this new Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the "mother" church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
www.sfarchdiocese.org /columns/ordinarytime.html   (782 words)

  
 Viewpoint: L.A. cathedral’s new sacred space and rituals can offer healing
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is not just the touchstone between heaven and earth executed by the extraordinary interplay of architectural form and artwork.
The cathedral is glorious and grand, but it is also the epitome of the real, the church on the ground, moving through the world.
Cathedrals resonate with the cosmos and the divine.
www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/112902/112902m.htm   (1304 words)

  
 Travel: Land of plenty
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels sits at the north end of the developing Grand Avenue arts district.
The nearby Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is on the north end of the burgeoning Grand Avenue arts district, looming over the Hollywood Freeway like a giant sun-baked California mission.
A pleasant tour is given of the cathedral, with a chatty docent supplying all manner of information, from why there are nine angels on the candelabra (there are nine ranks of angels) to the location of Gregory Peck's tomb in the basement.
www.sptimes.com /2005/08/07/Travel/Land_of_plenty.shtml   (1486 words)

  
 Jose Rafael Moneo - Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels :: arcspace.com
Jose Rafael Moneo - Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels :: arcspace.com
The Cathedral of Our lady of the Angels is the third largest cathedral in the world and the first cathedral to be built in the United States in over a quarter of a century.
In the spacious Mausoleum, one of the largest cathedral burial vaults in the world, the stained glass windows soften and sanctify the rows of crypts.
www.arcspace.com /architects/moneo/cathedral_feat   (691 words)

  
 Essay 1
Now there might be an angel or two hidden on the pedestal below the altar, which is a huge flat slab of horizontal marble, but I didn’t see a one flying around up near the ceiling or settled in full view on any protuberance.
Personally, my father had named me in honor of the Lady and on several occasions insisted that I adopt her as a role model rather than follow the other kids on the street where we lived.
In fact Mary was an unreal figure to me. Outside of having a child in an undesirable place, Our Lady has little place in the Gospels and she said even less, if that is possible.
www.anotheramerica.org /essay_1.htm   (902 words)

  
 California Art Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels will open its doors on July 7 with the first juried exhibition of fine art to ever be displayed at this important architectural and spiritual center in Southern California.
The Cathedral exclusively invited artist members of the California Art Club, one of the oldest and largest professional arts organizations in the country, to participate in this exhibition, in which the Cathedral is continuing a centuries-old tradition of the Catholic Church: the support and encouragement of the fine arts.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is a house of prayer for all people.
artscenecal.com /Announcements/0604/CalifArtClub0604.html   (682 words)

  
 Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission | July/August 2005 | Roamin' Catholic
Earlier in the week, Rainbow Sash had announced that its members would be presenting themselves for communion in their trademark torso-gear (rainbow colored sashes, as it happens), in defiance of the United States bishops' declaration that all those who did so were to be denied the Eucharist.
The cardinal began by saying that the whole world was even more present in the cathedral that Sunday then it had been on the first Pentecost, and he then proceeded to prove it.
There is no need for coffee and doughnuts at Our Lady of the Angels because sumptuous meals await one at the cathedral café.
www.losangelesmission.com /ed/roamincatholic/2005roamin/0507roam.htm   (1699 words)

  
 KCET Online - Life & Times - Arts - Cathedral
The Cathedral is built with architectural concrete in a color reminiscent of the sun-baked adobe walls of the California Missions and is designed to last 500 years.
The tapestries created by artist John Nava for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels are the largest collection hanging in a Catholic place of worship in the United States.
The pipe organ of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels was commissioned from Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Ltd., of Lake City, Iowa.
www.kcet.org /lifeandtimes/arts_cathedral.php   (676 words)

  
 Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles
The cathedral was the first Roman Catholic Cathedral to be built in the western US for 30 years.
The bronze entrance doors are by sculptor Robert Graham and are topped with a statue of Our Lady of the Angels.
The cathedral is supported by 198 base isolators which are designed to float.68 metres (27 inches) in the event of an earthquake measuring 8 on the Richter Scale.
www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu?id=231417   (133 words)

  
 Jonathan Ambrosino: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, opened in August 2002, stands as the grandest statement of the Catholic renaissance.
That theme continues upon entering the Cathedral, not at the west end as is traditional, but at the east end adjacent to the chancel.
Given the building’s great width at the transepts, the absorptive ceiling, and the lack of early reflective surfaces, the organ sounds strangely enchambered, as if it were planted in the side chancel chamber of a cruciform church.
homepage.mac.com /glarehead/ambrosino/pub-co-2004-3.html   (1616 words)

  
 Mary Page Links
The purpose of The Central Association was to propagate and increase devotion to Mary Immaculate by encouraging devotion to Mary under her title of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.
The National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows is owned and operated by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and is one of the largest outdoor Shrines in North America.
The chapel on the campus of Ursuline Academy in New Orleans was designated the National Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor on January 8, 1924.
www.udayton.edu /mary/resources/links/linkdisplay.php3?catnum=10   (1064 words)

  
 DIVINE DESIGN IN L.A. / Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels captures spirit in concrete
But give the creators their due: The rugged concrete cathedral is a triumph that conveys the essence both of religious faith and of great architecture.
Far more than simply a solemn house of worship, the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels may be the most significant building to open in the United States this year.
The cathedral doesn't soar to the heavens, nor beckon outsiders with walls of clear glass.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/09/07/MN111997.DTL   (995 words)

  
 CHRIST OR CHAOS October 25-27 (oct25coc.htm)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Pope did send a representative there to be present at the Mass in which the cathedral was dedicated on September 3, 2002 (which featured liturgical dance around the obscenity of the table that serves as an "altar" in the middle of the cathedral, naturally).
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, California, is either good or bad.
Indeed, the aforementioned Sacrosanctum Concilium presaged the disaster that is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels by authorizing a devolution of liturgical decision-making to the level of the national episcopal conferences of diocesan liturgical commissions.
www.dailycatholic.org /issue/2002Oct/oct25coc.htm   (1514 words)

  
 Pauline Center for Media Studies
An elegant documentary film, Divining the Human: The Cathedral Tapestries of John Nava, about the three cycles of tapestries in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, has been released by Los Angeles filmmaker David Tlapek.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, where the tapestries bear silent yet vibrant witness to faith, is the first cathedral in the entire world to open in the new millennium (September 2, 2002.)
Divining the Human: The Cathedral Tapestries of John Nava video ($19.95) and DVD ($21.95) will be available beginning December 19 at The Cathedral Gift Shop, 555 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA, (213) 680-5200 and the Pauline Book and Media Center, 3908 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, (310) 397-8676.
www.daughtersofstpaul.com /mediastudies/reviews/filmdiviningthehuman.html   (793 words)

  
 FIRST U.S. CATHOLIC BISHOP OF VIETNAMESE ANCESTRY NAMED   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Bishop Oscar Solis is also a trailblazer --- first bishop ordained at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (on Feb. 10), first Filipino-American bishop ordained in the U.S., first Filipino priest appointed head of a deanery in Louisiana, youngest priest to be named rector at his home seminary in the Philippines.
The first Filipino American bishop in the United States was ordained Tuesday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles.
Bishop-designate Solis, who will be ordained to the episcopacy on Feb. 10 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, becomes the first Filipino-American bishop named to serve in the United States and the 29th active U.S. bishop born in another country.
www.dioceseofcleveland.org /asianministry/announcement/bishop/solis   (520 words)

  
 Premier Organ Recording (DE 3331)
In this tradition, Premiere Organ Recording - Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is a significant addition to Delos' release schedule.
Premiere Organ Recording — Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is the first to feature the new pipe organ of the Cathedral.
Since its opening in 2002, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels has become a significant religious and cultural landmark in Los Angeles.
www.delosmus.com /item/de33/de3331.html   (180 words)

  
 Virgin Mary for LA Cathedral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Virgin Mary that presides over all who enter the newly dedicated Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles stands eight feet tall and weighs 1,000 pounds.
The Virgin Mary is the work of sculptor Robert Graham, who also created the Cathedral doors, which are 20 feet tall and weigh a combined 25 tons.
The Cathedral was dedicated September 2, 2002 by Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, the archbishop of Los Angeles.
www.geomagic.com /advantage/graphics/cathedral-index.php3   (828 words)

  
 Useful Links
The replica statue of Our Lady of Altoetting will be installed in a niche here in the upper Basilica in 2004.
The Cathedral hosts the annual German-American Day Mass on October 6, with special adoration to Our Lady of Altoetting.
The relic is a piece of St. Juan Diego’s tilma—the cloth that holds the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
www.friendsofaltoetting.com /links.html   (222 words)

  
 He Lives
He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
But if ours is just one of a near-infinite variety of universes, the Anthropic Principle starts to sound more reasonable, akin to saying that we find ourselves on Earth rather than on Jupiter because Earth has the mild temperatures and liquid water needed for our kind of life.
Here Jesus not only comments on our sinful nature, likening some to the very symbol of evil: serpents; (take no comfort that they are Pharisees—it is clear that no unsaved man is any better) he also tells them the consequence of their sinfulness.
helives.blogspot.com   (16353 words)

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