Catholic nerd pilgrimage: Saint Clare of Assisi (St Colette)

Thanks to the Renew My Church initiative, we have parishes which have one or more churches by a different name than the parish itself as parishes are merged and the combined parishes choose to take on a new name even as the individual churches keep their original names. The parish of Saint Clare of Assisi is one such example with two parish churches (St Colette and St Cecilia) both under the umbrella of Saint Clare of Assisi. Daily Mass alternates between the two churches and today’s liturgy was at St Colette.

View of the sanctuary of St Colette church. The church was built in the 1950s and reflects the aesthetics of the time. The original sanctuary is now a chapel space behind a divider (an “open air” confessional is visible to the left). The choir loft is now overflow seating with the choir instead seated at the front of the church on the right.The front of St Colette’s church. The façade is brick and stone with concrete steps leading up a slight hill to the entrance. There are a handful of narrow windows on an otherwise solid façade and a stone cross is mounted at the peak of the roof at the front of the church.


Posted

in

,

by

Tags:

Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.