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New Church Construction
Photos by Warren Harbeck
More About Our New Church
The six stained glass windows at the front of the Parish Hall originally adorned the chapel at Calgary's former Holy Cross Hospital. When the hospital was closed, they were no longer needed. St. Mary's, Cochrane acquired them and had the north end of our new Parish Hall designed especially for them in celebration of the beauty of holiness.
The Celtic Cross and Crucifix 
is a central focus in our worship space in the Parish Hall—at present a temporary worship space until the building of Phase II which will include our Worship Space Proper. The specially designed and 
handpainted Celtic Cross was a labour of love accomplished by two very talented artists who are parishioners serving on the Arts and Environment Ministry at St. Mary's. Bonnie Farris and Anne Manning painted the Celtic Cross onto the wall of the Parish Hall, then mounted a bronze crucifix that we have had for some time in the parish. The result was a beautiful work of art situated in the centre of the six stained glass windows forming a sacred backdrop to the altar where we celebrate the Sacrifice of the Eucharist every weekend, on holydays throughout the year, and at weddings, funerals, and the initiatory sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation for our parishioners.
The Bells of St. Mary's, all three, arrived in Cochrane from faraway geographic locations where they were each 
fashioned from bronze in the early 1900's. Today they proudly hang in the tall bell tower attached to St. Mary's Parish Centre.
The construction of the bell tower was a masterful endeavor on its own. And when it was finally ready, the three bells were carefully hoisted aloft into that tower to await their sacred 
duty of chiming out the joyful call to the Faithful to come join in Holy Worship here at St. Mary's.
To read more about the Bells of St. Mary's, click here.
Hans Stocker, a retired blacksmith of our parish, very graciously offered his expertise to fashion and install the many wrought iron door handles and similar features found throughout the new St. Mary's building.
The blacksmithing process was recorded in pictures by photographer, Warren Harbeck.