The Stained Glass Buffalo: Church Museum

03 December 2007

Church Museum

Stained-glass windows could be put on display
The Buffalo News
Everybody’s Column (Letters to the Editor)
12/03/07

During a recent trip to Chicago, I came across a stained-glass exhibit. This exhibit was comprised of various stained glass windows from structures throughout the Chicago area.

The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo is in the controversial process of closing some of its most beautiful churches. These churches for years were a major part of many Buffalonians’ daily lives.

People on the waterfront redevelopment committee are in the process of planning various
points of interest to attract visitors. A museum displaying some of the stained-glass art that once graced our magnificent places of worship around Buffalo seems like an appropriate attraction. Instead of these windows being auctioned off to various collectors around the country, they could once again be enjoyed and appreciated by the very people they were created for.

Gregory M. Blakowski
Elma

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Carlo Carretto:

How much I must criticize you, my church, and yet how much I love you! You have made me suffer more than anyone and yet I owe more to you than to anyone. I should like to see you destroyed and yet I need your presence. You have given me much scandal and yet you alone have made me understand holiness. Never in this world have I seen anything more compromised, more false, yet never have I touched anything more pure, more generous or more beautiful. Countless times I have felt like slamming the door of my soul in your face - and yet, every night, I have prayed that I might die in your sure arms! No, I cannot be free of you, for I am one with you, even if not completely you. Then too - where would I go? To build another church? But I could not build one without the same defects, for they are my defects. And again, if I were to build another church, it would be my church, not Christ's church. No, I am old enough, I know better.