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Prayers and Art at St. Thomas More 1 Our Father, Who Art in Heaven, Hallowed Be Thy Name; Thy Kingdom Come; Thy Will Be Done on Earth As It Is in Heaven prayers and art at st. thomas more 1 Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; M and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. 2 st. thomas more university parish and student center prayers and art at st. thomas more 3 M 4 st. thomas more university parish and student center prayers and art at st. thomas more 5 Contents 8 Map 9 Locations 11 Prologue 15 Introduction 17 Stations of the Cross 19 Altar and Sanctuary 26 Altar Murals 36 Sculptures 55 Music 59 Stained Glass 61 Prayer Gardens and Shrines 73 Architecture 77 Architectural Details 81 Design and Identity 85 Legacy 92 Book Notes 6 st. thomas more university parish and student center prayers and art at st. thomas more 7 1 Ransom’s Garden is South of the Chapel 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Locations 5 6 7 4 1 7 8 The Altar Santuary 1 Crucifix 1 Altars 2 St. Simon Stock and 2 Sacred Heart of Mary 3 St. Hilda of Whitby. 3 Jesus in the Tomb 3 St. Thomas Becket and 4 St. Scholastica St. Aelred of Rievaulx 5 St. Thomas Aquinas 2 6 9 8 4 St. Winifred and 6 St. John Vianney Cardinal St. John Henry Newman 7 St. Agnes 5 10 5 St. Margaret Clitherow Cardinal and 8 St. Joseph St. John Fisher 9 St. Cecilia 4 11 6 St. Anne Line and St. Edmund Campion 3 12 7 St. Margaret Ward and Shrines and Prayer Gardens St. Edmund Arrowsmith 1 Our Lady of Life Shrine St. Elizabeth 2 13 2 Our Lady of Grace Prayer Garden Ann Seton Stations of the Cross 3 St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Courtyard Courtyard 1 14 2 4 Holy Family | Ransom’s Garden 3 1 Jesus is Condemned to Die. 9 2 Jesus Carries His Cross. 3Stained Glass Our Lady of 3 Jesus Falls the First Time. Grace Prayer 1 Agnes Dei (east window) Garden 4 Jesus Meets His Mother. 2 Mary, Mother of the Church Simon Helps Jesus Carry His Cross 2 5 (west window) 6 Veronica Wipes Jesus’ Face 7 Jesus Falls a Second Time Entry Plaza 8 Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem. 1 St. Thomas More Sculpture 2 9 Jesus Falls a Third Time. 10 Jesus is Stripped. 11 Jesus is Nailed to the Cross. 12 Jesus Dies on the Cross. 13 Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross. St. Thomas More 1 14 Jesus is Laid in the Tomb. 1 Entry Statue Our Lady of Life is North at the corner of Stinson and Jenkins 8 st. thomas more university parish and student center prayers and art at st. thomas more 9 Prologue On November 7, 1926, a “graceful little Gothic building” that still stands at 717 West Boyd, was dedi- cated Mater Admirabilis (“Mother Most Admirable”) Chapel, a Catholic church to serve University of Oklahoma students, faculty, staff and their families. It was built to hold 175 souls. 10 st. thomas more university parish and student center prayers and art at st. thomas more 11 Mater Admirabilis Chapel In 1959, the chapel’s name was changed to St. Thom- as More Chapel by its newest pastor, convinced that a There are pigeons on the roof of the little chapel scholar and attorney to be a more fitting patron for a That belongs to the Mother of God; Catholic Church on a university campus. On Sep- White and purple and gray and dapple, tember 23, 1979, a new church and gathering place They preen their feathers and promenade. for Catholic students at the corner of Jenkins Avenue and Stinson Street was dedicated with a capacity for Come out, come out, O Mother of God, 435. The design, with its use of simple lines, unpre- Come out, for the sun is bright tentious redwood and clerestories filling the space And radiant in God’s own face, with natural light, was recognized as one of the best And the pigeons dance to do you grace; in Oklahoma by the American Association of Ar- Come out into the light. chitects. Almost immediately, the parish saw that the building was not large enough for their growing faith They wheel in the air and they turn in the light community. After multiple attempts to raise the nec- And they walk in stately procession, essary funding, a new St. Thomas More Church, with While the Virgin near God’s altar white a capacity of 750, was dedicated on December 21, Makes her endless intercession. 2019. This is the Prayer for St. Thomas More Parish, prayed at every Mass during the four years leading up Come out, come out, O Mother of God, to its completion: Come out, for the sky is blue; Yes, bluer than your painted robe Is heaven’s dome above this globe, Good and gracious God And the pigeons dance for you. Architect of our lives and Master builder of our destiny You a morning will come, so dewy and fair Look with favor upon our parish family. That the Mater Admirabilis Increase our faith. Will leave her pale candles and her prayer Show us your will for this holy ground To watch the pigeons’ bliss. That we may create room in our hearts And in this place Come out, come out, O Mother of Christ, For all who seek to worship you. Come out this very day, Amen. For the pigeons pirouette for you; Father James Aubrey Goins On a golden roof, under heaven’s deep blue, They dance who cannot pray. Altha Leah Bass Sooner Magazine (1929) 12 st. thomas more university parish and student center prayers and art at st. thomas more 13 Introduction Taken from a series of talks by Father James Goins, pastor, in 2020. Art in a church serves two purposes. The first is to glorify God with beauty and color and craft but the art in a Catholic church is also for the purpose of teaching the faithful. When we visit Catholic churches, we often see the illustration of Biblical sto- ries and scenes from lives of the saints. At St. Thomas More, much of our art is centered on the life of Christ as seen through our Stations of the Cross that surround this sacred space. We chose the saints and martyrs depicted over the altar to show a “cloud of witnesses” that our English patron, Thomas More, would have known or venerated and to give context, through their stories, to the church that birthed his fervor. We chose great heroes of faith to show that saints are not faraway figures but humans that we can relate to in our daily lives and to teach young Catholic college students that the saintly life is both desirable and possible. Our church is a depiction of the English church that produced our patron saint and our goal is to highlight the saints that produced the great glory of the English Catholic Church. With the statuary on the altar, we wanted to present images of saints who are in particular com- munion with our ministry here on the University of 14 st. thomas more university parish and student center prayers and art at st. thomas more 15 Oklahoma campus. When facing the altar, from left to right, we first see St. Scholastica, a very learned wom- Stations of the Cross an and abbess, patron saint of students, test-takers and The Stations of the Cross were rescued from a re- the weather, a reference to ou’s standing as a leader in cently closed Catholic church in Connecticut and the study of meteorology and the National Weather are estimated to be over 100 years old. Although they Center located only about a mile from our church. were in remarkable condition upon arriving in Nor- Next, St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest thinkers man, we are grateful to artist and ou professor Sohail in church history, recognized as the patron saint of Shehada for restoring them to their original beauty. academics, a saint for all Catholic students and a shin- The cabinets holding each Station were designed by ing light for the belief, the bedrock Catholic belief, Krittenbrink Architecture. that the life of reason, the life of learning, the life of study, will lead you to God; this Catholic confidence that science and the social sciences and the arts and philosophy, that all of these learning spheres will lead your soul to God. To the right of the high altar stands St. John Vianney, patron of seminarians and priests, a reminder to the young men in the parish of the call- ing to the priesthood and a reminder to me, as your parish priest, of the holiness of my duties to you. I hope that his image and his memory, his presence will guide many young men to think about and to discern priesthood. Finally, one of our first acquisitions for the new church, St. Agnes, who according to tradition is the patron saint of betrothed couples. Couples who are preparing for the sacrament of marriage are urged to pray for the intercession of St. Agnes. The signature piece of our building project, the statue of St. Thomas More “in the dock” that stands at the main entrance, reminds us that “no temporal pow- er has authority over the church.” The bronze sculp- ture of St.
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