Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Mission

New Riegel All Saints parishioner Dr. John Wood has just released a book, "Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Mission," with the theme, Be a Saint!  More info HERE.

All Saints, Rossford

All Saints church in Rossford has a series of stained glass windows of various saints in its Blessed Sacrament chapel. (We think these are from Ss. Cyril and Methodius church, which combined with St. Mary Magdalene to form All Saints.) Pictured above is St. Gabriel.

St. Veronica, with a "k".

The tabernacle.

You can see more photos of the chapel HERE, and many photos of the rest of church HERE, taken during the recent concert by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. Many thanks to Shari for sharing these!

All Saints, Rossford

St. Mary Magdalen

St. Methodius

St. Cyril

All Saints parish in Rossford was formed in 1990, bringing together two parishes -- Ss. Cyril and Methodius and St. Mary Magdalen. (For more photos of the impressive exterior, enter "Rossford" in the search box above.)

Ignace Schott

The mural of St. Boniface at All Saints parish in New Riegel is credited to Ignace (Ignatius) Schott and W. Hofstette of Detroit in 1877.

You can read an interesting biography of Schott here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignace_Schott

All Saints, Rossford

A magnificent building. No photograph can do it justice.

All Saints, Rossford

More in a couple days.

All Saints, New Riegel

Photographs by Shari Stowell

All Saints, New Riegel

All Saints, New Riegel

These are particularly good.

The le Corbusier Memorial Award

....for best church exterior, in a contemporary style, goes to All Saints, in Rossford. No one could mistake this for a dentist's office. That entrance arch and the gable, that seems to rise forever, are the best of late 20th century architecture, even if it was built in the 21st century.

The Raising the Dead Award...

..... with a laurel wreath for reversing a wreckovation, goes to All Saints in New Riegel, for restoring the murals when they could easily have been forgiven for giving them up as a lost cause.

See what I mean?

All Saints, New Riegel

These photographs, from 1979, show the crucifix suspended from a very nice hanging canopy. It's too bad this would have blocked the view of one of the murals, since it was a good arrangement.

I'll never even remotely understand the reasoning for it, but, as wreckovations go, this one wasn't bad.

Photos from Mike Doughty.