EnVisionChurch : Article Slideshow

Title of Piece: Easter Vigil
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: The Assembly processes into the church with lit candles during the Easter Vigil.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Interior view
Date of Creation: 1998
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: The church is designed in a amphitheater style. The pews are set in a semi-circle.The sanctuary is raised three steps above main level. The choir is seated to the left and the baptismala font is to the right. A small reservation chapel is situated behind the sanctuary. Though visible from the church it is clearly a distinct space.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Baptismal Font during Ordinary Time
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: The red velvet ropes which provided a safety guard around the font were replaced with green potted plants.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Baptismal Font during Lent
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: During the season of Lent the green plants around the baptismal font are replaced with Manzanita branches.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Baptism during the Easter Vigil
Brief Description: Msgr Kidder administers the sacrament of Baptism during the Easter Vigil.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Tabernacle
Date of Creation: 1998
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: The tabernacle in tooled copper was designed by Hogan Studios of Chico, CA. The same studios did the infant baptismal font, the large crucifix and candle holders in tooled copper. The art glass in the reservation chapel was designed and installed by Elizabeth Devereaux in 1998.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Jesus, Mary and Joseph
Date of Creation: 1920s
Brief Description: These statues depicting the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple were carved in Oberammergau, Germany in the 1920s for the Sisters of Notre Dame in Menlo Park. The statues were bought from the sisters when the convent closed in 2000.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Stained Glass Window, detail
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: The beveled glass, the hills and water in this detail of the stained glass windows by Elizabeth Devereaux shows has been the inspiration for many of the banners that were designed for this church.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Lent, Year A, detail
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: In anticipation of the sacrament of baptism celebrated at the Easter Vigil, these banners use flowing water as main motive.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Winter Ordinary Time, year B, detail
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: The beveled glass look which was used for this banner was borrowed from the stained glass texture used by Elizabeth Devereaux in the stained glass windows for this church.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Easter Banner Year A, Detail
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: The Easter Banner for Year A is made of sheer white fabric with white flowers and copper leaves picking up on the copper form the permanent art work.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Easter Banner Year B, Detail
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: The Easter Banner for Year B is made out of a ribbon and yarn weave of whites and golds. Also shown is an Easter floral arrangement.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Easter Banner Year C, Detail
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: The Easter Banner for Year C is a pierced banner with iron on design elements bordered by sewn gold braid.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Easter Banner Year C
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: View of the banners for Easter of Year C. This slide shows the banner on the choirside and one of the side banners.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Interior view
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: The center banner is pierced with many triangles, one for each family that was registered when the church was formed. The banner depicts the body of Christ. It is surrounded by several lighter weight white and gold banners. They easily move with the air.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Exterior banners
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: The entrance of the church seen from the plaza shows the exterior banners which were made for Lent A. They match the interior banners.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki

Title of Piece: Lamp Post Banner
Location: Holy Trinity Church, El Dorado Hills, CA
Brief Description: These outdoor banners depict angels blowing the trumpet. They match the inside angels. There are seven in total, each with a different skin color to be reflective of all people.
Photographer Info: Mary Janicki