today is the feast of all saints and
tomorrow is the feast of all souls in
which the church focuses on and
celebrates the unity within the mystical
body of christ
so today i'm going to walk you through
the exterior statuary of the church and
the saints that these statues are named
after we'll go inside the church and
look at the various devotional spaces
and lastly we will talk about our five
liturgical bells and their patron saints
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so on the exterior of the immaculata we
will have eight statues which will greet
the faithful as they come to mass
we'll have the great statue of our lady
up on top of the cupola as we already
discussed in the august first update
video that statue will be 12 feet tall
the other seven statues that will be all
around the church on the exterior will
each be six feet tall on the north side
we have decided to place a statue of
saint cyril of alexandria who was the
great father of the church known for
defending our lady's greatest title
mother of god the theotokos on the south
transept
right underneath our lady we will place
a statue of saint louis de montfort who
was known of course for his devotion to
our lady and whose method so many of our
faithful here have used to consecrate
themselves to jesus through mary
on the west facade of the immaculata we
will have five exterior statues
up at the very top we will have a niche
in which we will place a statue of
christ the king
for whom
the society has been fighting for many
years we really believe that a lot of
this crisis in the church revolves
around the figure of christ's kingship
whereas down below right above the main
arches
and portals of the immaculata we will
have four niches in a row and here we
wanted to show the transition from the
jesuits who owned the immaculata and and
built the first immaculata on campus in
the history there developing through to
the society's acquisition and presence
on campus and building rebuilding of the
immaculata so therefore we will have
on the far left saint ignatius of loyola
the founder of the jesuits we will have
then bishop miege who was the first
vicar apostolic of this great territory
this indian territory west of the
missouri state line
who actually
established on campus the first
cathedral of this area before it moved
to leavenworth and when in fact that
cathedral which is a little log cabin
was taken apart they wanted to have
another building on campus which
represented and was a remembrance of
that cathedral and that's what they did
when they built the immaculata
next to bishop miege we will have a
figure archbishop lefeve our founder who
of course
only bought this property because of the
immaculata and because of its priestly
significance
and lastly next to archbishop lefeve on
the far right we will have our six foot
statue of saint pius the tenth the
patron of our order
so we're passing now from the exterior
of the church we can enter into the
inside
and we'll show you on the interior some
of the various devotional spaces in the
church
and spaces where we can unite ourselves
with the victorious members of the
mystical body of christ
you know over the past months we've been
probably expressing to you how grand
this church is how big it is
but actually as you come into the inside
we wanted to make sure that the faithful
had some very small and intimate places
as well to pray
as you come into the church just to the
right you will see the first of our side
chapels this side chapel here is going
to be a combination of two very beloved
spaces down on our in our current
assumption chapel
in this space we will bring up all the
relics over 300 relics that we have of
various saints and martyrs bring them up
and put them into different case work
around the interior of this chapel
separated by a little communion rail but
we will also put in this chapel the
queen of martyrs the regina martiroom
our lady
the beloved our lady of sorrows statue
that exists on campus and to whom so
many of our faithful are devoted so
we'll combine the two in here and call
this the regina martirum chapel the
queen of martyrs chapel further up the
nave on the epistle side of the church
we have the next side chapel which will
be devoted to saint joseph
as you walk into the church you'll
notice when the immaculate is completed
that the in main body of the church will
be very unified to be very cohesive all
the artwork and coloring will work
together
these side chapels though
will be a little bit different we don't
mind if these spaces will look even
quite different from the main body of
the church so devoting this chapel to
saint joseph we wanted to honor this
great saint who has helped us so much
not only on campus over these many years
but who has helped us on this specific
project
sending us the right people to help us
build this church and so this interior
space will probably have a lot of
beautiful specialty carved woodworking
to honor st joseph the great carpenter
directly across the nave from saint
joseph's side chapel we have the our
lady of guadalupe chapel
so here we decided to have a chapel
dedicated to our lady of guadalupe we
have an image down in our current chapel
that a lot of people pray to and there
are many people here who are devoted to
our lady under this title of our lady of
guadalupe
we also wanted this chapel in honor of
her because she's the only image of our
lady
where she's appeared to men where it's
obvious from the cultural traditions
that she's expecting and so she's often
been taken as a symbol of the pro-life
movement
and so because of much of the pro-life
work that we do here in saint mary's we
wanted the chapel dedicated to her as
well and this can also be the space
where after a baptism a mother and
father can bring their newly born and
consecrate their child to our lady so
let's head up to the bell tower now and
consider the various bells and the
saints that they're named after
so as we come towards the top of the
bell tower here you can see up into the
belfry where they're still yet to place
the structural steel but up in those
towers both here on the south and on the
north we will have almost 20 000 pounds
of bells
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so between the two towers the north and
here in the south tower we will have
five liturgical bells
over in the north tower there will be
two bells the largest bell which will be
dedicated to mary immaculate maria
maculata and we'll have written on that
bell our lady's words from fatima in the
end my immaculate heart will triumph
that bell will be over seven thousand
pounds and over six feet tall
also in the north tower we will have the
third largest bell which is named after
saint john the baptist and we'll have
written on it in latin a voice of one
crying in the wilderness
make straight the way of the lord
because we'll use that though like saint
john the baptist so often drew souls to
our lord we use that belt to call souls
to mass
here in the south tower we will have
three bells the second largest bell will
be dedicated in honor of the brother and
sister saints benedict and scholastica
saint benedict is a great patron against
wicked spirits and saint scholastica is
the patron saint against storms
we'll use that bell as a symbol of
driving away wicked spirits as
sacramentals do and also if there's ever
a storm headed this way we'll come up
and ring that bell
to ask for god's protection
the second smallest bell will go in this
tower which will be in honor of saint
gabriel you know have written on it and
the word was made flesh and dwelt
amongst us
that bell we will ring not only to
announce the daily angelus three times a
day
but also it can be used to announce the
consecration at mass god himself the
word coming down on the altar
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lastly in this bell tower we will have
our smallest bell which will be
dedicated to saint lazarus we use this
bell to
ring as the death knell as we carried
our loved ones into the cemetery it will
have written on it lazarus come forth
the words that our lord said to his good
friend
rising him from the dead and it will be
a reminder to us in that sad moment as
we take our loved ones to the cemetery
that one day they too will be
resurrected by our lord just as his good
friend lazarus
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and as we and our loved ones finish our
pilgrimage on this earth we can imagine
bringing their bodies from the church
out these portals
over the plaza
and directly up this road which will go
straight into our lady of peace cemetery
where we will lay them to rest to await
the final resurrection
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so as we enter into this month of
november when we would typically
consider the mystical body of christ i
hope that this project can help all of
us to meditate more deeply on our unity
between the church triumphant to the
church militant to the church suffering
in christ
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