Religious Architectures

What is remarkable at the first glance is harmony and audacity of the curves. Our eye enjoys to follow the lines of the constituents of the edifice which incite to meditation and silence. Absolutely yes, we can make silence inside us among a mob who walks in a church.
Entering a religious edifice means beginning a brief stage, a short in time retreat, a break with outside bedlam. Do we believe? Don't we believe? Sincerely who is able to definitively answer this question? The main thing is to make a pause with oneself and intuitively feel we perhaps are at the threshold of something else, elsewhere... I add nothing. One's own experience for each of us. Nevertheless I remain persuaded that the limits of our universe will be destroyed a day... likewise the ruins of an abbey continue testifying a past life, which is perpetuated elsewhere, in another way.
It is to admit indeed taht only the catholic or orthodox buildings suggest these thoughts. The protestant churches show a simplicity bound to History, that besides I entirely understand. It also is true that we can criticize an overabundance in some cathedrals, going until make us forget the main things.
But when in that field, a happy medium can be found, whatever in a country church or in a huge basilica, then magic happens provided to be available to this approach.
(copyright Jean-Michel Cagnon)