ELYRIA — A Vietnam Veteran who went to war for his country finds himself in another fight.
It’s over a sign the Veteran wants to put in his window. It’s a sign with the word “Jesus” on it.
Most of the homes at Twin Lakes Park are neat, with a minimum of ornamentation and no signs.
Property owner Bill Kriso wants to put a sign in the front window saying “Thank You Jesus for Our New Home.”
“If you would have put that sign up, you would be aggravating some people in the park," the park owner said.
Regulations for the park say no “for sale” signs, but say nothing about signs of any other kind.
At Twin Lakes, it’s apparently okay to have a Happy Mother’s Day banner in your front door window, or an Ohio State logo in your front window … it’s just not okay to have a sign that says “Thank You Jesus.”
Bill and his wife prayed for a quiet place they could afford. Bill is a totally disabled Vietnam vet with a plate in his head and bullets in his gut.
“We’re just so thrilled and so happy that the Lord gave us the gift of the house we’ve been looking for,” Kriso said.
Stories like this are always so odd. That this could in any way be controversial.
Now I want to know how did Jesus get him the house? I didn’t even know Jesus was involved in real estate, well besides creating it all. If he was a real estate agent it certainly would give new meaning to the great commission. Though having Jesus as a real estate agent would be pretty cool. He wouldn’t have to mess with those oversized locks they put on the doors and with his glorified body could go through the wall and let you in through the back door. With omniscience you wouldn’t even need a home inspector – he could tell you everything that is wrong. Plus if you needed substantiative renovation he could destroy the house and rebuild it in three days! He could even tell you if interest rates were going to rise or fall in the near term (or long term for that matter) His business card could say "Specializing in real estate and the Real Presence."
Speaking of real estate I have been noticing a trend lately of seeing a specific type of sign offering to buy your house. I would like to see this idea of buying ugly houses expanded to other types of buildings. In fact here is one sign that I would like to see in front of the new L.A. Cathedral.
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Jeff:
Thanks for a great blog and for cheering us up all the time.
I am from crazy L.A., the home of Our Lady of the ANGLES Cathedral. It’s even uglier in person.
Pray for us and keep us in stitches!
What part of satan’s army did they get to build that thing, more over who designed it? All I can say is P U……wow that is ugly. It looks like a lodge for some ski resort in Utah. Totally wrong….and who agreed to this? St. Lucy’s school for the Blind?
I had the opportunity to visit the LA cathedral for myself last summer. I decided to see it for myself, trying not to have any prejudice.
There was a flyer in all the pews from Cardinal Mahoney stating that he intends the cathedral to reach out to the larger community as a sign of the Catholic faith. If that is truly his intention, I would say that it fails miserably. Not only is it hard to tell that it is a church (many hospitals have crossses like this, and there is next to nothing distinctively Catholic on the outside at all), I quite literally could not find the door, and had to walk a block or two before I finally could get to an entrance that worked. It is not at all atractive from the exterior — the picture here is actually the best angle to view the exterior of the thing. From the other side, it looks far uglier — like a giant blank wall.
The interior is actually better than the exterior (but I guess it would have to be). It has a lovely airy feel, and there is a wonderful tapestry / painting depicting saints from all the ages facing towards the altar.
But over all, the thing seems like such a missed opportunity. It will not age well.
HOLY CRAP!
I’ve never seen a church so hideous! What were they thinking?!
Hi,
Don’t worry, I lived in Ca. for 45 years. I pulled my family out of there. I predict that we “the Catholic Church” are going to loose a lot of real estate soon. Mahoney and Tod Brown are not catholic, they are Protestant, and so are MOST of the laity. The laity don’t really know it, but they are.
I lost my family, even my mother to them. If you want to start some real trouble, go to a bible study in that area, and bring a catechism.
John
“Ugly” doesn’t even begin to describe this, what? Correctional center? Cold storage plant? Bio-waste storgae facility?
I had heard about His Eminence’s Cathedral several times, but till you shocked me too early in the morning by posting this photo, well, it would take a Dante or Milton to adequately describe this palace of Stalinistic Delights.
After seeing that monstrosity, I’ll never again criticize the architecture of St. Thomas Aquinas parish in Charlottesville, VA for being “hideous”. Compared to that thing, St. Thomas is Chartres Cathedral.
Visit my blog- L.A. Catholic: A Catholic Living with L.A. I’ll keep you up to date on all the incredibly strange things that are going on where I live. I cannot tell you how happy we were to receive the “gaudium magnum” that Ratzinger is Pope! Now L.A. has hope!
The idea of Jesus as real estate agent… That’s going to keep me giggling all day. Thanks!
‘Our Lady of the Angles’ describes this abstract representation of material waste all too well… *shudder*
That has got to be one of the most hideous buildings I’ve ever seen! What were they thinking? If Jesus was a real estate agent, I hope we would refuse to sell this monstrosity!
Good thing you can’t see the androgynous Vulcan statue that’s meant to be a “modern interpretation” of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Short hair, uncovered head, bare arms, weird modernistic Star-Trek-ish clothing, generally not looking like modest 1st Century Jewish girl. And not really looking like a girl at all, actually. I hate that statue, really. It’s over the door from the courtyard.
I’m rather fond of the tapestries inside, though it’s too bad everything’s so monochromatic. The whole place, inside and out, is sort of beige. How boring.
How long till Cdl. Mahoney hits retirement age, I wonder?
It looks like a nuclear bunker.
I suppose, when it is de-consecrated, that is the purpose it will serve.
Hi John Bedard,
I wouldn’t go that far, but I know what you mean. Myself, I’m about 90% out-the-door at St Columban parish. There is an independent TLM chapel here in Garden Grove (cool!)
Say hi to Elizabeth for me.
It’s not just ugly… there’s creepy symbolism & statuary inside. {shudder}
O.K., what we all need to do is grab a trumpet, encircle the church, march around and with a mighty blast… well, you get the picture. Now let’s meet at dawn!
U~G~L~Y you aint got no alibi, it’s ugly, heh, heh, it’s ugly.
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