St Paul’s Episcopal Church

This is a beautiful church. I have not been to an actual service here, I have only been to several concerts here. The sanctuary is beautiful. The ceiling looks like what I would expect the bottom of an old wooden boat to look like, just turned upside down. All wood, huge beams. The stained glass windows are beautiful, and when the sunlight spills through them, it gives me a tingly feeling at the base of my spine. Oh! To hear music in this space is just wonderful. It has beautiful acoustics and seems like it was meant to have music played here. They have a pipe organ. I am in love with pipe organs. Its not as large as I have seen other places, but I love how it sounds, and am in awe. Dr Carolyn Carson was the conductor for most of the shows that I have seen here, and her students were the musicians/​singers, as she teaches in the music department at the University of New Orleans. She has a clear voice that is easily heard when she is introducing parts or pieces.
I hope to come back for future events.

Our group of twenty-​five came here a year after Katrina.
We stayed next door at the Homecoming Center house run by a very special Connie Uddo. It was as difficult, as it was joy filled an experience as any one of us ever had and we would certainly do it again.
The late Carl Knirk helped organize the trip. The pews were somewhat new back then. A donation from a church in Cleveland, if I remember what Fr Will Hood told us. We took many pictures. None of which captured the experience, or holiness of that period and the people of St Paul’s
Blessings and peace to the church of Christ in Lakeview!

Ummmm… beast church ever? This is where I talk to God? How can you beat that, huh? How do we review churches, again? Awkward.