OUR LADY OF ANGELS CATHEDRAL TO BE DEDICATED MONDAY, OPEN TUESDAY.Byline: Dana Bartholomew Staff Writer The grandest church service ever planned for Los Angeles will start Monday with the rap of a wooden mallet mallet, n a hammering instrument. mallet, hard, n a small hammer with a leather-, rubber-, fiber-, or metal-faced head; used to supply force or to supplement hand force for the compaction of foil or amalgam and to seat cast and the opening of the 25-ton bronze doors of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels. ``Brothers and sisters in Christ, this is a day of rejoicing,'' Cardinal Roger M. Mahony will say before 700 priests, bishops and cardinals participating in the Labor Day Rite of Dedication service set to begin at 10 a.m. A choir will then erupt in Beethoven's ``Ode to Joy'' as 3,000 selected guests fill the pews of a $193 million cathedral celebrated - and denounced - for its austere elegance. ``This is the moment when the building becomes sacred space sacred space, n space—tangible or otherwise—that enables those who acknowledge and accept it to feel reverence and connection with the spiritual. ,'' said Tod Tamberg, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, whose bishop will be based at the cathedral. ``It's the most significant event in the church's life in Los Angeles - we approach it with so much joy and anticipation after the last eight years of building and fund-raising. To see this come true ... will be a very emotional and powerful event.'' Baptizing a downtown sanctuary deemed ``a house of prayer for all peoples'' will take three hours. The medieval ritual once took six hours to exorcise a building's demons Demons See also devil; evil; ghosts; hell; spirits and spiritualism. ademonist one who denies the existence of the devil or demons. bogyism, bogeyism recognition of the existence of demons and goblins. . ``This is a historic event,'' said Paul Ford, a professor of liturgy at St. John's Seminary St. John's Seminary may refer to United Kingdom
``It's important in the liturgy of any parish after the years of planning and struggle to raise money, to have it inaugurated properly.'' Before the service, bells will peal across Bunker Hill. Trumpets will echo across the cathedral's 2 1/2-acre plaza. And a procession of purple, blue, red and yellow banners will fly over the relics of saints, heads of deacons and the escort of Scottish and Nigerian drummers. At the door, cathedral builders will offer up their plans to His Eminence, the cardinal. Inside, Mahony will sit for the first time at his cathedra cathedra throne indicative of religious power. [Folklore: Jobes, 307] See : Authority , or bishop's chair, during the reading of a letter by Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II) born Karol Józef Wojtyła . He will then proceed to bless Our Lady's red marble altar, its ocher ocher (ō`kər), mixture of varying proportions of iron oxide and clay, used as a pigment. It occurs naturally as yellow ocher (yellow or yellow-brown in color), the iron oxide being limonite, or as red ocher, the iron oxide being hematite. walls and its sacrament chapel during a Roman Catholic rite not practiced in this country since the 1971 blessing of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco. During the lengthy liturgy, 63,000 square feet of limestone, concrete and alabaster alabaster, fine-grained, massive, translucent variety of gypsum, a hydrous calcium sulfate. It is pure white or streaked with reddish brown. Alabaster, like all other forms of gypsum, forms by the evaporation of bedded deposits that are precipitated mainly from will be transformed into a consecrated con·se·crate tr.v. con·se·crat·ed, con·se·crat·ing, con·se·crates 1. To declare or set apart as sacred: consecrate a church. 2. Christianity a. Catholic church and house of God. ``It's really the fullest expression of what the church is all about,'' Ford said. ``The ceremony walks you through the theology and what it means to be a Catholic.'' Protesters from the Los Angeles Catholic Worker Community plan to protest millions spent on the cathedral they say was at the expense of the poor. Glendale artist Zareh Meguerdichian will stage a mock marriage between a priest and a woman, dedicated to victims of sex abuse by clergy. Organizers pray Monday's weather will be merciful to the richly clad procession. On Tuesday, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is a cathedral church of the United States in the City of Los Angeles in California. It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles[1] and seat of its archbishop, Roger Cardinal Mahony. will open to the public at 6:30 a.m. Mass will be celebrated at 7 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. Churchgoers get two hours parking free; others pay a maximum of $12 for all-day parking. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: A three-hour ceremony Monday will dedicate the new Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels, which workers are finishing. David Sprague/Staff Photographer |
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