“Tradition for Tomorrow” Launches
Posted on Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 in EventsOn this, the 100th anniversary of St. Francis de Sales, the campaign to restore this historic landmark to its full glory has been announced.
Please inform your family and friends of this noble endeavor and TraditionForTomorrow.com, and stay tuned to this blog for the latest information about the restoration project.
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May the restoration campaign be successful!
My thoughts and prayers are with all those involved with this glorious church in south Saint Louis.
SEE YOU THERE!
God bless “Tradition for Tomorrow” and may St. Louisians and Catholics nationwide respond to this call to preserve treasures both in edifice and in spiritual charism.
We are very blessed to have the Institute of Christ the King and its dedication to the renewal of Catholic culture. This restoration, like the Shrine of Christ the King in Chicago, will once again bring beauty to its surrounding neighborhood.
What a beautiful Pontifical High Mass today to celebrate the 100th anniversary. I started a Facebook.com “Cause” to point people to this site. If anyone wants to search for it in Facebook, the cause is called “Restore a St. Louis Landmark – St. Francis de Sales”
God Bless.
This is a real great idea…the thought of seeing the Steeple Tower illuminated over the St. Louis sky line is a real inspiration.
May God’s blessings be upon the St. Francis de Sales community and upon this wonderful restoration project.
I was baptized, received my first communion, and married in this church…I would love to see my grand children do the same. This is a worthy cause and a beautifully created website! May God bless your efforts to restore this beauty.
As a boy I lived near this glorious place of worship. The magnificence it exuded to me as such a young impressionable lad drew me to my vocation. I remember as an adoloscent keeping a close eye on the steeple clock to be sure not to be tardy for curfew. God Bless this restoration project and all involved. St. Francis de Sales is the true Spirit of St. Louis!
This is a great cause. I only hope the Archdiocese will provide it with some support.
This is a very worthy project and a great companion to the restorations in Chicago and Wisconsin. You are in my prayers and this blog will be on my favorites list. I look forward to reading how the work is progressing.
Great to hear all the wonderful news in St. Louis. I look forward to the day when the restoration begins.
This church is the landmark of South St Louis. I hope all restoration groups in St Louis get together on this one and work for this beautiful landmark.
The city of St. Louis could lend an ear too.
This building has stood for 100 years. The former parish was founded around 140 years ago. The church rises over 300 feet in the air. The tallest, I believe of all city chuches.
St Francis de Sales has served thousands of families, and educated a well numbered of St. Louis’ City leaders.
Let us all join in and help the Institute of Christ the King resotore this monument of our city, and heart of many souls.
The tower (while not all the way lit up yet) still looks so very beautiful in a dark night sky.It truly is worth a trip to see it at night.
How about Christmas Eve midnight Mass?
The music begins at 11:30 pm.
It is a real joy to see the church of St. Francis de Sales being used the way it was designed to be used when built by the German artisans 100 years ago. I talked to a lady named Catherine who went to gradeschool here years ago and in the more recent years she said she came every week to clean the church with her husband. As she became worried when the young guitarists came in to rest their coke cans on the altar of St. Joseph during mass and when the administrators allowed a dance floor in an alcove, she fretted when the communion rail was about to be removed, and plywood put down to level the floors, she and her husband continued to keep the vigil light burning in front of the St. Francis de Sales statue changing it when ever it was spent. Once, some of the benches were removed but Archbishop Rigali then intervened and told officials to put all the benches back this was an historic landmark. If it wasn’t for Catherine and her husband maybe there wouldn’t even be a St. Francis de Sales Church still standing! We all owe a debt od gratitude to the Ludwigs and St. Francis de Sales himself cooperating to preserve the wonderful cathedral of South St. Louis!