Today, I want to talk about my visit to the cathedral. Not only does it have the biggest alter in Europe, it is the BIGGEST cathedral in the world. It has the Guinness record for biggest volume! During my time here, visiting amazing churches like this one has been a common theme. Almost everywhere we go, we tour the main cathedral of the city. I have to say my favorite was a smaller cathedral we visited in Extremadura because the organist was playing while we were there. It was so powerful to hear the music echo throughout the walls. However truely, every single cathedral has amazed me.
The architecture and details of the cathedrals are indescribable. I can not even imagine how the builders constructed everything by hand. The buildings and decor are so much more ornate and elegant than anything we have in the states. Not to mention everything is huge. I like to think that they did this to honor and represent just how amazing our God is.
It is ironic because I have been trying to work my way through Revelations and it talks about the new heaven and new earth and just how indescribable they will be. I think about how the cathedrals here take my breathe away and I can not even imagine that our God would have something even better prepared for us...let alone that we get to live besides him. I want to be like John when he heard of these things, where I can do nothing but fall down to worship our perfect creator!
Revelation 21
The Holy City shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.
The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone.
The city did not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
Adios - comes from "A Dios" - basically GO WITH GOD! :)
