Location: Cathedral of the Holy Family, Saskatoon, SK
Description: One of 5 monumental sanctuary windows

“It may be helpful to think of the Glory window as a parable told in stained glass. It uses not words but image, line and texture, tint and hue, angles of light and streams of colour as its forms in trying to evoke the biblical promise of life in God’s presence, Lux Gloria. When the early morning sun, unimpeded by clouds, beams through this large east-facing window, it floods the cathedral with glorious light.”
ARCHBISHOP DONALD BOLEN

Location: Rosedale United Church, Toronto, ON
Description: Narthex window with exterior art glass

For as the days of a tree,
so shall be the days of my people.
ISAIAH 65:22

Location: Redeemer Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, OH
Description: Narthex, Chancel Windows

“The religious imagination survives for most people today as not just the primary but virtually the only credible instance of an imagination working in a total way.”
SUSAN SONTAG

Location: Thornhill United Church, Thornhill, ON
Description: Sanctuary Rosette Window

“Sarah Hall re-conceptualizes devotional spaces and images in new ways. In her magnificent ‘Living Cross’ Rosette Window, she has the vegetative colours of life in the form of a cross, suggesting the Resurrection and Pentecost as much as the Crucifixion itself. She re-imagines Christ as nature, a tree, a plant, as ‘the force that through the green fuse drives the flower’(Dylan Thomas). The crucifixion is living, and recurrent. It goes on at all times, in all places.”
J S PORTER

Location: Rose of Lima Catholic Church, Toronto, ON
Description: One of 42 windows for the Sanctuary, Narthex, Chapel, Reconciliation Room & Entryways

“To the religious person, everything is religious. God can be sensed, discerned and somehow found, in all created things. God’s first words in creation were: ‘Let there be Light.’ But light, the revealing creature, can also be contemplated in itself.”
PETER LARISEY, SJ

Location: Scioto Ridge United Methodist Church, Columbus, OH
Description: 20 Sanctuary, Clerestory & Narthex Windows

The Earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof;
The world, and they that dwell therein.
PSALM 24

Location: St Catharine of Siena Church, Columbus, OH
Description: 54 Windows – Sanctuary, Nave, Transepts, Sacristy, Baptistery, Shrine, Porch and Narthex

“Stained glass captures sunlight and heightens our experience of it. Like clay that goes through the fire, light that passes through stained glass is transformed. Light itself becomes a tangible presence, as concrete as the walls and furniture. It also transforms the space within, giving it subtlety and poetic luminosity. If sunlight is what gives a building its soul, then it is stained glass that reveals the soul of sunlight.”
PETER COFFMAN

Location: B’nai Keshet Synagogue, Montclair, NJ
Description: Entryway, Clerestory and Sanctuary Windows

“B’nai Keshet is never the same. Coloured light streams in, patterns form on the walls, glass takes on a sudden glow —and in a moment, all of the colour, patterns and glow have disappeared or changed with the movement of the sun or a cloud. The windows possess a beauty that helps us to appreciate the beauty that surrounds us. There is a strength to their geometric structure which invites our own quiet. And there is a playfulness to the windows which makes us want to sing in response.”
RABBI DAN EHRENKRANTZ

Location: Immaculate Conception Church, Woodbridge, ON
Description: One of 38 Sanctuary and Chapel Windows

“Her most uncompromisingly modern designs nevertheless show scrupulous regard for the essential reality of her medium as two-dimensional design in transparent colour and opaque line.”
K. COREY KEEBLE

Location: Grace Church on-the-Hill, Toronto, ON
Description: 2 Narthex Windows

My image of the ‘the Kingdom’ encompasses both heaven and earth. The heavens spiral downwards. The sun warms the land and wheat grows joyfully and abundantly. Streams and water flow through the base of the windows.