Wednesday, August 29, 2007

THOSE RED DOORS

Posted by Reverend Ref + at 3:38 PM


Official Shot
Originally uploaded by reverendref
Here's the "Official Shot" of Christ Church with those nifty cool red doors. If you are interested in looking at all the pics .... before, during and after .... feel free to go to my Flickr account.

3 comments:

Tripp Hudgins | 9:18 PM, August 29, 2007  

Lovely. Nice. Fabulous.

Padre Mickey | 2:32 PM, August 30, 2007  

The doors look very nice.
Now, since I've spent the majority of my ordained life in Central America and I really don't know some TEC stuff, 'sup with Episcopal churches and red doors? We don't do that here in IARCA. Somebody asked me about it the other day and I had no answer.

Reverend Ref + | 3:00 PM, August 30, 2007  

Padre:

Here's what I know about red doors and, typically Anglican, there is more than one answer.

1) Red doors are easy to see from a distance, especially when contrasted against a white background. Back in the days when the king, prince, knights or whomever were pursuing the poor peasants, red doors meant a church; that, in turn, meant sanctuary and safety.

2) Red doors signify the Blood of the Lamb. By passing through the doors, you were being washed in Christ's blood.

3) Red is the color of the Holy Spirit. Similar to #2, the doors signify that the Holy Spirit is present.

4) Someone once told me that red doors signified a debt-free building. While the church was still paying the mortgage, the doors would be some other color. After the mortgage was paid off, the doors were painted red to celebrate.

5) Church doors are supposed to be red; that's the way we've always done it. ;-)

Hope that helps.

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