Slajd 1 - Our Lady of Loreto Catholic Parish

The rosary is not a
road, but a place,
and it has no goal
but depth. To
linger in it has great
compensations”
(Romano Guardini,
The Rosary of Our
Lady, p. 45).
Theological Principles
1) The Sacred Scriptures.
2) St. Ephrem of Syria,
particularly the Hymns
on the Church; Hymns
on Faith; and Hymns on
Epiphany.
3) John Paul II, Rosarium
Virginis Mariae.
4) Romano Guardini, The
Rosary of Our Lady.
Design Principles
1) Relationship between light and dark and
especially fire and Spirit.
2) Respect for the mysterious nature of the
mysteries “become flesh.”
3) Windows were to engage the viewer in
awe and illuminate him in mystery,
inviting her into the mystery and into
prayer.
4) Respect for location of light in each
window’s placement in the church.
5) Respect for the architectural design of the
church and complementarity of windows
in situ.
6) More traditional design than Angels in
Heavenly Garb windows asked for by the
archbishop.
The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light (Is. 9:2).
The Lord has sent a
word against Jacob,
and it will light upon
Israel (Is. 9:8).
As the Daystar in the river,
The Bright one in the tomb,
He shone forth on the mountain top
And gave brightness too in the womb.
St.Ephrem, The Three Wombs
“The song of the dove is heard in our
land….O my dove in the clefts of the
rock, in the secret recesses of the cliff”
(Song 2:12;14).
She was the warn nest rounded to the
shape of humanity to receive the Divine
Little Bird” (Caryll Houselander, The
Reed of God, p. 21).
“He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire”
(Mt.3:11).
As Jesus went down into the water, the Jordan was set ablaze.
St. Justin, Dialogue with Trypho, 88
Fire and Spirit are in the womb of her
who bore you,
Fire and Spirit are in the river in which
you were baptized,
Fire and Spirit are in our baptism,
and in the Bread and Cup is Fire and
Holy Spirit.”
St. Ephrem, Hymns on Faith, 10:17
“I take it you know what has been reported
all over Judea about Jesus of Nazareth,
beginning in Galilee with the baptism John
preached; of the way God anointed him
with the Holy Spirit and power. He went
about doing good works and healing all
who were in the grip of the devil, and God
was with him” (Acts 10:48).:
As prescribed for
Jewish ceremonial
washings, there were
at hand six stone water
jars, each holding
fifteen to twenty-five
gallons (Jn. 2:5).
“As gold in the furnace he proved them”
(Wis. 3:6).
The light of Israel will become a fire,
Israel’s Holy One a flame” (Is.10:17).
“The eye is the body’s lamp. If your eyes
are good, your body will be filled with
light” (Mt. 6:22).
“The cords of death encompassed me; the snares of the nether world
seized upon me; I fell into distress and sorrow. And I called upon the
name of the LORD, ‘O LORD, save my life!’”(Ps. 116:3-4).
You dissolve like a cobweb all that is dear to him; only a breath is
any man” (Ps. 39:12).
“On this mountain he will destroy…
the web that is woven over all
nations; he will destroy death
forever”(Is. 25:7).
“An angel then appeared to him from
heaven to strengthen him. In his
anguish he prayed with all the
greater intensity, and his sweat
became like drops of blood falling to
the ground” (Lk. 22:43-44).
By his wounds you have been healed” (I Pet. 2:24).
“This servant girl who kept the gate said to
Peter, ‘Are you not one of this man’s
followers?’ ‘Not I,’ he replied.
“They said to him, ‘Are you not a disciple of
his?’ He denied it and said, ‘I am not!’
“Peter denied it again. At that moment a
cock began to crow” (Jn. 18:17; 25; 27).
What greater scourging then the denial of
a disciple. Christ’s face bowed and broken
as the rooster denies Christ to his face.
Peter’s last words in the last gospel are, “I
am not,” the antithesis of Christ’s “Ego
emi” before Pilate.
And a cloud took him out of their sight” (Acts 1:9).
“Because of this we no longer look on anyone in terms of mere
human judgment. If at one time we so regarded Christ
[Ratzinger: Christ before the Resurrection.], we no longer know
him by this standard. If anyone is in Christ he is a new
creation” (II Cor. 5:16-17).
“For our God is a
consuming fire”
(Heb. 12:29).
A flame not of carbon (pre
Resurrection) but of inert gases,
electricity, or alcohol (post
Resurrection).
When we meditate on the three cycles of the Rosary prayer, we may look for a clear
projection of a truth that governs our present life: namely, the waiting for Christ’s return,
as shown in the previous mysteries of the third cycle. [Josef] Weiger [in his book Maria,
Mutter des neuen und ewigen Bundes] proposes substituting for the two mysteries “Who
took you, O Virgin, into Heaven,” and “Who crowned you, O Virgin, in Heaven,” the
following: “Who will return to us in glory” and “Whose Kingdom will have no end”
(p.135).
The grand façade window of the
OLOL church, as a “New Rose”
window, is planned to be the
mysteries of the Assumption and
Crowning of Mary as Queen of
Heaven.
The glory the baptized takes from the
Jordan when one descends into the water
is the glory of the Garden of Eden, and
the glory one ascends with into the
eschatological paradise.
Kilian McDonnell, The Jordan: Between
Two Edens inThe Baptism of Jesus in the
Jordan, the Trinitarian and Cosmic Order
of Salvation, p. 147.
The glory the baptized takes from the
Jordan when one descends into the water
is the glory of the Garden of Eden, and
the glory one ascends with into the
eschatological paradise.
Kilian McDonnell, “The Jordan: Between
Two Edens” in The Baptism of Jesus in the
Jordan, the Trinitarian and Cosmic Order
of Salvation, p. 147.
“For now we see
in a mirror,
dimly, but then
we will see face to
face”
(I Cor13:12).
To look upon the face of Christ, to recognize its mystery amid
the daily events and the sufferings of his human life, and then
to grasp the divine splendor definitively revealed in the Risen
Lord, seated in glory at the right hand of the Father: this is the
task of every follower of Christ and therefore the task of each
one of us. In contemplating Christ's face we become open to
receiving the mystery of Trinitarian life, experiencing ever
anew the love of the Father and delighting in the joy of the
Holy Spirit. Saint Paul's words can then be applied to us:
“Beholding the glory of the Lord, we are being changed into
his likeness, from one degree of glory to another; for this
comes from the Lord who is the Spirit” (II Cor 3:18).
St. John Paul II, Rosarium Virginis Mariae, 9