Brenna's Girl Scout troop took a trip to the
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception today as pilgrimmage celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Blessed Mother's appearances at Lourdes. The Shrine is one of the 10 largest churches in the world and the largest in the Northern hemisphere. In addition to the Great Upper Church and the lower level Crypt Church, there are more than 70 chapels and oratories. While we were visiting we saw dozens and dozens of priests gathered to celebrate Mass together as Archbishop Broglio was
formally installed today. Quite an impressive sight! The girls were wonderful, the tour was amazing (one of our parents arranged it with a friend of hers who did a great job with the girls) and we ran into one of the deacons who served in our parish over the summer. Actually our pastor concelebrated the installation but we couldn't see him in the
crowd of priests. Personally my favorite piece is the Christ in Majesty mosaic at the rear in the north apse. It is absolutely stunning and simply enormous. The face alone is over 7' across! Brenna really enjoyed it and all of the girls left with new rosary beads blessed right there. Here are few photos - I could post a million though. Beautiful place.
Brenna's Girl Scout troop took a trip to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception today as pilgrimmage celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Blessed Mother's appearances at Lourdes. The Shrine is one of the 10 largest churches in the world and the largest in the Northern hemisphere. In addition to the Great Upper Church and the lower level Crypt Church, there are more than 70 chapels and oratories. While we were visiting we saw dozens and dozens of priests gathered to celebrate Mass together as Archbishop Broglio was 
formally installed today. Quite an impressive sight! The girls were wonderful, the tour was amazing (one of our parents arranged it with a friend of hers who did a great job with the girls) and we ran into one of the deacons who served in our parish over the summer. Actually our pastor concelebrated the installation but we couldn't see him in the 
crowd of priests. Personally my favorite piece is the Christ in Majesty mosaic at the rear in the north apse. It is absolutely stunning and simply enormous. The face alone is over 7' across! Brenna really enjoyed it and all of the girls left with new rosary beads blessed right there. Here are few photos - I could post a million though. Beautiful place.
No comments:
Post a Comment