Why have we commissioned a talented woodcarver from Italy to carve the main Chapel appointments? 

Why are we scouring every Liturgical corner, looking for the perfect Tabernacle and Monstrance? 

Why are we working so closely with our stained glass window artist to come up with the perfect designs, down to the very last detail?                   

   It's quite simple, really.

This Chapel will be the Temple of the Lord and the Dwelling Place of the Most High.  And Our Lord deserves the best, the most beautiful, and the loveliest.  As His brides, we desire that He has a worthy dwelling place.  This beauty is in accord with our own Franciscan spirituality that teaches us how to wed beauty with simplicity.  It is also in accord with the medieval motif that we are employing, as Fr. John Saward once stated that there is a marked modesty to medieval art. 

It's our hope that the Chapel will serve as an inspiration for all those who visit as well.  In a world where where there is unrest and darkness, we pray that the Chapel will be a place of peace and light...a place to meet the Eucharistic Lord and to adore Him. 

In George Weigel's Letters to a Young Catholic (which is, as an aside an excellent book!), he says: "Beauty helps prepare us to be the kind of people who can be comfortable in heaven -- the kind of people who can live with God forever."   He goes on to explain that  "beautiful things...draw us out of ourselves and into an encounter with truth that's beyond us, yet accessible to our senses."