Sacred Space in Chicago
This marvelous book, with its gorgeous pictures of Chicago’s sacred spaces, is one of the things that made me realize just how much we’ve lost. All that beauty; all that energy. These sacred spaces were also the font of an amazing outburst of social action that provided education, jobs, housing and community services for literally hundreds of thousands of people. Chicago’s old parishes created a vibrant social community and a massive social services organization, beautiful sacred space and a way to mark sacred time, an accessible portal to the transcendent, and a rich web of meaning. And except for the evidence of the buildings, much of it is just a fading memory.
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