I was informed that the material for the walls was "structural gingerbread". Amazingly, the stained glass windows are not made of cellophane (or any modern equivalent) but of melted boiled sweets stretched into a plane. The photograph is important since, as you can imagine, the model has now been eaten. (More detailed photos at Mulier Fortis.)Another suggestion by way of the combox, was an ingenious idea for evading planning permission. It would be a relatively minor problem to inform the Civil Aviation Authority of the Mass schedule:
One wag suggested that it would be ideal for "High Mass".
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Or perhaps a Missa de Angelis?
Dear Father Finigan
It is good to see that Our Lady of the Rosary's Arts Department are working hard on ideas for a minor basilica in Blackfen.
Ben Bolgar at the Prince's Foundation www.princes-foundation.org may be able to help your team with planning and architectural support.
Yesterdays theme in the CRISIS Arts Room at Deptford Reach was HOPES & DREAMS. I put the words Christ said to me in a big dream up on the wall "Jam lucis orto sidere".
May your dream come true.
At the next General Election former Met Police Inspector Michael Barnbrook, the malevolent neo-Nazi BNP Police Spokesman, will be standing as a candidate for MP in Our Lady of the Rosary's Parish, Blackfen, which is in the late Sir Edward Heath's Old Bexley & Sidcup constituency. Nick Griffin MEP, the BNP's leader will be standing as a candidate for MP in the Barking & Dagenham constituency here in London at the next General Election.
Our Lady of the Rosary pray for us in BNP leader Nick Griffin MEP's EU/GLA/LDA/ODA NEO-NAZI DEVELOPMENT TIMES Amen
Yours sincerely
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Thank you Fr Finigan for the Minor Basilica update. I am delighted to see that things are now moving on at speed. The gingerbread Gothic option certainly catches the imagination but, on balance, I am attracted by the other possibility depicted in the second photograph. This second option, if implemented, would certainly put an end to people leaving before the end of Mass. They would only do it once !!
Two points: a gingerbread basilica would mean the end of Fr Tim's cycling days and ever-increasing girth of both clerical and paishioners' waistlines; a floating basilica on the other hand would enable Fr Tim to conveniently travel the length and breadth of the country to give masterclasses in Summorum Pontificum and the EF...
Andrew J
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