11:30AM Sunday Mass
61.5 Miles
Yet another gorgeous sunny summer Colorado morning saw us headed down to Colorado Springs for the second weekend in a row ... this time to St Mary's Catholic Cathedral, the home parish of the Archbishop of Colorado Springs ... the See that covers a pretty wide swatch of Colorado south of Denver ... including Douglas County (where our "home" parish of Pax Christi is ensconced.)
As with last week, I25 traffic moved at the posted 75mph speed till 2 miles before the Larkspur exit where the Renaissance Festival is in season ... backing traffic up for miles as Medieval fans braved the long lines and high temperatures forecast for today.
St Mary's Cathedral was a lot smaller than we'd expected ... much smaller than the unexpectedly small Denver Cathedral. The 11:30AM Sunday Mass was lightly attended. The celebrant was of indeterminate background (possibly Polish or Argentinan) with rudimentary English speaking skills ... making the readings and the Homily a pretty labored exercise! That said, I think the Homily was non-dogmatic (or if it was, I wasn't paying enough attention to have it rub me the wrong way!)
The organist was highly enthusiastic, playing at an incredibly loud volume, drowning out the "cantor". Despite the cantor and the organist being immediately beside each other, they were amazingly out of step, leading the music to be amusingly disjointed. I suppose that's part of the overall charm of the Mass.
The interior of the Cathedral was very nicely done as far as places of Worship go ... not overly ostentatious ... and pretty well maintained. The cantor, who chatted me up a while after Mass was over, said the place was "recently renovated ... in 2003" ... dating his presence on God's Earth!
Overall it was not a bad visit. I had qualms about what the Mass would be like given Archibishop Sheridan's rightist positions. I guess one should never pre-judge a Cathedral by the Archibishop!
Church website - http://www.stmaryscathedral.org/
Who are the Sainrs here?
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