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Barb Nicolisi genuflects to beautiful liturgical design and supernatural churches in a recent blog entry.

Tired of wondering if you’re in the church cafeteria or the new worship space? Catholics, are you tired of searching for the sanctuary lamp? Do you wonder who (or what) is shining through that stained glass? Have you ever entered a church and thought it was a little too much like a liturgical Rorschach test?

Yes, faithful everywhere you can say it, that phrase which is anathema to (fill in your euphemism for post-Enlightenment unfaithfuls here) liturgical designers and artists everywhere: “THAT is ugly.” Yes, there’s such a thing as good art and bad art, good architecture and bad architecture, a beautiful church and a downright shameful one. Bad liturgical design, in fact, does make God weep.

For good and strikingly witty architectural commentary see the the Holy Whapping Crew. For a head start on what is good architecture, look here or here. I won’t dare link to that-which-makes-Him-weep. I don’t have the internet space or computer capability to hold it. Meanwhile, if you have a picture of a church/ chapel that makes God give a holy high five (high fifteen?), send em’ my way.

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