Posts from the ‘churches’ category
Notre Dame Montreal
Tuesday, October 11th, 2022Back Bay at dusk
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022Playground and CSC
Sunday, May 1st, 2022Trinity Church
Saturday, April 2nd, 2022Playground, menorah and MFA
Saturday, December 4th, 2021Our Lady of Good Voyage
Thursday, July 15th, 2021
CSC Plaza
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021
First ride on the T since before the pandemic
Trinity Church
Saturday, December 26th, 2020
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Fall in Copley Square
Sunday, October 4th, 2020St. Mary of the Assumption, Brookline
Friday, August 14th, 2020St. Michael’s in Bristol, RI
Sunday, May 19th, 2019Church of the Covenant
Saturday, November 25th, 2017Holy Name Cathedral
Sunday, June 25th, 2017St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Tuesday, May 30th, 2017Saint Joseph’s Oratory
Wednesday, December 28th, 2016Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal
Wednesday, December 28th, 2016St. Patrick’s Basilica
Tuesday, December 27th, 2016Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal
Tuesday, December 27th, 2016Old South craft fair
Saturday, December 3rd, 2016Old South Ringers
Friday, December 2nd, 2016St. Andrews Anglican, Lunenberg
Thursday, September 29th, 2016Copley Square
Saturday, February 6th, 2016Old South Church at night
Thursday, February 4th, 2016
Old South Ringers
Friday, December 11th, 2015Day 9: Montreal to Boston
Sunday, October 4th, 2015Back in the car for one last necessity before hitting the road: fresh bagels. Mission accomplished, and we headed south but we didn’t get very far before we found out about a massive detour: the big bridge over the big river was closed, and our internet access was spotty at best. We thought we might have to swim across the St. Lawrence, but we managed to figure it out, and before long, we were at the border and on to the gorgeous green mountains of Vermont (that are actually rather blue).
Another necessary stop was the Ben and Jerry’s factory in upstate Vermont. Fun tour, delicious ice cream, homage to the flavor graveyard, and back on the road as the sun began to set. A few hours later, we finally saw the Boston skyline … home at last!
Day 8: Montreal
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015We were super lucky that we could get in to our hotel room at 10am, and we were incredibly pleased with our hotel room! Brian and picked out Le St. Martin Hotel Particulier, and it was an excellent choice – one of the highlights of the trip. Spacious, great decor, a fireplace and a ginormous tub, with a sliding door opening up to the rest of the room. We settled in a bit, then took off to explore Montreal.
We headed straight to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, which has a wonderful collection in a cluster of lovely buildings. They have a cut-out model of Florence’s Duomo, which was pretty incredible to see. Then we headed over to the Notre-Dame Basilica, which was absolutely phenomenal. It was easily the largest of the many churches we saw this week, and the deep blues and greens of the altar and the vaulted ceiling were incredible!
After a warm croissant or two, we continued wandering around. Later in the evening, we visited another church very close to our hotel, the Basilica of Mary Queen of the World (sounds better in French). It was very beautiful and peaceful, and it had a baldacchino altar very similar (but smaller) to the one at St. Peter’s in the Vatican.
We continued our evening stroll through a neighborhood with tons of shopping and McGill students, found some dinner, then headed back to our cozy hotel to relax for the evening. We’re happy, exhausted, and ready to head home!
St. Barnabas
Saturday, May 16th, 2015
Old South Ringers
Friday, December 12th, 2014