A Baroque Style Church at Odeonsplatz
While browsing the old images folder in my other computer I found pictures from our previous travels apparently taken with a film camera. I couldn’t help but admire the architectures I captured while in the car with hubby driving around the place. I remember we stopped by and stayed in a hotel in Munich and the next day we went to The English Garden. Then we drove around and I was busy taking photographs while the car was running. Incidentally, I captured structures that I didn’t know what they were all about, like the images below. I just learned about it after searching and I wasn’t mistaken when I thought it was in Munich.
The Theatine Church at Odeonsplatz, Munich
It’s the Theatinerkirche at Odeonsplatz in Munich, Germany. I thought for a while it’s a theater basing from its name. Yeah, what do I know about the German language, anyway. It’s a Catholic church, a baroque-style architecture that was inspired by the Roman Catholic Church. Looking at the picture, I couldn’t tell it’s a church maybe because of the absence of a cross, or there’s probably one but just couldn’t see it. The color is relentlessly attractive apart from its captivating structure.
Almost One And The Same
We were invited to a baptism last Saturday in the country, quite a long drive from the city and enough to make us tired when we came home. I’m pleased to learn that baptism here is celebrated on a Saturday and not on a Sunday as I used to know in the Catholic churches in the Philippines. We attended a baptism in a Catholic church last month and in a Swedish Lutheran church recently, both were held on a Saturday. I find it pleasing to have baptism on that day than on a Sunday, as it gives no stress to think about work the next day.
Inside a Catholic church
As far as I know, there’s only one Catholic church in Gothenburg, unlike where I come from, there are countless. The baptism ceremony is quite longer than in the Swedish church, though the process is roughly the same.
Inside a Swedish Lutheran church
The altars of these two churches have different designs and characteristics but the symbols and paintings are almost the same. The baptism ceremony in a Swedish church is brief and for the first time, I saw a lady priest in the altar. I was surprised when they include and say “Our Father” in Swedish. I didn’t expect to hear this prayer in a non-Catholic church. The Swedish church above is relatively old as it was built in the 17th-century while the renovated and modern ones (like the Domkyrkan) no longer look like that.
Church of La Madeleine
Church of St. Mary Magdalene | La Madeleine
L’Église Sainte Marie Madeleine – Church of St. Mary Magdalene is a church dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene. Located near the Place de la Concorde and the Place Vendome in Paris, this church offers daily masses, concerts and elegant weddings.
I couldn’t appreciate much the exterior design of this church, except the sculptured relief of the Last Judgment by Lé Maire in the pediment. The reason for it’s simplicity, maybe, because it was based on the design of an antique (Roman) temple. After two false starts, the building was finally built in 1806 and consecrated as a church in 1842.
The busiest and perhaps the most crowded place on this Season of Lent is the church. Christians all over the world are commemorating the passion of Christ. And the most significant day of the season is the Resurrection where people jubilantly sing songs of praises to the Lord. It was said that Mary Magdalene was the first person to witness that Jesus had risen from the dead.
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