Statue In Cathedral Of Our Lady Of The Angels Wondering Why Everyone Keeps Laughing At It

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Los Angeles, CA––The Virgin Mary statue at the entrance of Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles announced today that it was becoming evermore frustrated and frankly rather confused by the amount of mockery it has received since it was first created. The 8-foot-tall, modern representation of the Virgin Mary told Eye of the Tiber that ever since it was created in 2002, it has been the butt of jokes, scoffs, and laughs by visitors who pass it, despairingly adding that it has oftentimes wished it could just call in sick. ”I guess I’m just more confused than anything else,” the statue said from its station above a pair of bronze doors. “Of course I’ve never looked at myself, but I’m a statue of the Virgin Mary, you know? How bad can I look? People stare at me as though I look like some kind of veilless Jedi with a boy-cut or something.”

19 thoughts on “Statue In Cathedral Of Our Lady Of The Angels Wondering Why Everyone Keeps Laughing At It”

  1. The Marian Statue stationed in the Ely Cathedral (Ely, Grand Britannia) expressed its sympathy to its fellow worker in LA.

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    The International Marian Statue Worker’s Union had issued a statement declaring that “it is in situations like this, when our fellow worker is being treated as less then serious, that the principle of solidarity is required”.

    • Wow, it’s like West Side Story Mary. When your a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way from your first cigarette til your last dying day.

    • Are you kidding? The statue at St Matthew’s is a brilliant work of Baroque influence, the lack of a cliché-ridden devotional posture notwithstanding. Reminds me of the Bernini’s statue of Teresa of Avila in ecstasy. In any case, there is simply no comparison to that iconoclasm in LA.

      • It may be a brilliant piece of Baroque inspiration….but if the message it gives to the everyday Catholic that views it is “Broadway Mary” then the “brilliance” is lost. To my 2013 view, the name “Broadway Mary” is a keeper and describes exactly what the posture of that statue is saying to me. (Good one, Gomer.)

        • Mary of St. Matt’s does have me thinking of the punch like to the Jewish joke “How do you get to Broadway?”..

    • At least her arms and her head are covered! Any woman in the Middle East even in these days would not be caught with their head and arms uncovered (as is the statue at the L.A. Cathedral). And standing on a crescent moon??? This is not Mary, not the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus.

  5. I know this is supposed to be satire, but I don’t get the underlying premise. In order to be satirical, it has to be ridiculing some truth. But why would anyone laugh at this depiction of the Virgin Mary?

    • Your comment is either sarcastic in the extreme or completely serious. One of those two options strikes me as trying just a little too hard; the other, however, is even more troubling. Please tell me you aren’t serious? That you don’t actually picture Our Lady as a wannabe-ninja teenaged boy?

  7. It is a sacrilege for Our Lady to be depicted in a funny, irreverent, confused, or stupid manner.

  8. Now, now. The “Yellow Armadillo” aka the LA Cathedral, needed a statue of a nondescript woman/man statue that may/may not be religious to go with the rest of the “gathering place” that may be used for concerts/meetings/rally’s, or even a religious event.