The Washington D.C. Temple and Capitol Beltway are proven in CBS Sunday Morning footage that aired on Sunday, April 17, 2022. For the primary time in 48 years, the temple can be open to most of the people from April 28-June 11. CBS Sunday Morning YouTube channel
The Washington D.C. Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is proven rising above the Capitol Beltway in footage by CBS Information Sunday Morning in April 2022. CBS Sunday Morning YouTube channel
For the primary time in 48 years, the doorways of the Washington D.C. Temple will open to most of the people for six weeks starting on April 28.
Elder David A. Bednar gave CBS Information Sunday Morning’s Ed O’Keefe and the community’s cameras an unique preview of the renovated temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The information journal aired a five-minute phase on Sunday.
CBS additionally posted on its YouTube channel a 100-second clip from one of many temple’s sealing rooms, the place Elder Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles supplied marriage recommendation primarily based on symbolism within the rooms the place Latter-day Saints might be certain collectively without end in an ordinance often known as sealing.
Elder Bednar and his spouse, Sister Susan Bednar, confirmed O’Keefe the infinite reflections offered by going through mirrors as couples kneel at an altar to be sealed collectively.
“If Susan and I stand right here and look into these mirrors, if I have a look at Susan and Susan appears at me, you'll be able to see without end,” Elder Bednar stated. “But when I look into the mirror simply in my eyes, and Susan appears solely into her eyes, all you'll be able to see is your self. That’s all the wedding recommendation anyone ever wants.
“So long as I’m trying to Susan and caring about her consolation and well-being, issues will work advantageous, if she’s doing the identical. But when I’m self-centered and egocentric, then it in all probability doesn’t work very properly.”
The temple has been a landmark on the Capitol Beltway for space residents and worldwide guests since its building and first open home within the fall of 1974. After 758,000 folks toured the temple then, it was devoted and reserved just for Latter-day Saints who maintain commitments to reside worthy of temple attendance.
Now the temple that stands on a outstanding hill 10 miles north of the White Home can be open once more for six weeks from April 28 and June 11, after media and VIP excursions over the following 10 days. Free tickets to the open home might be reserved right here.
Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who had a task within the Watergate court docket proceedings as a younger lawyer, additionally was on the tour with Sister Kathy Christofferson.
O’Keefe famous that some say the best way the temple rises above the Beltway reminds them of the Land of Oz.
Elder Christofferson stated the church hopes open home guests will come to see the temple “as one thing a lot, far more than Oz.”
The temple closed in 2018 for principally technical renovations. Work was accomplished in 2020 and an open home and dedication had been scheduled for fall and winter that 12 months earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted these plans.
CBS Sunday Morning host Jane Pauley launched O’Keefe’s phase.
“In a metropolis stuffed with inspiring monuments, one Washington, D.C., landmark has lengthy been one thing of a thriller. Till now,” she stated.
Elder Bednar instructed O’Keefe there's a distinction between secrets and techniques and sacred area.
“Generally we’re accused of, ‘What are the key issues that you just do within the temple?’ he stated. “They’re not secret; they’re sacred. And so we don’t communicate of them casually or frivolously as a result of, to us, they’re so central, so elementary and so necessary to how we reside.”
O’Keefe famous the temple’s large measurement — its six spires attain practically 300 ft — and its white Alabama marble.
The Washington D.C. Temple and Capitol Beltway are proven in CBS Sunday Morning footage that aired on Sunday, April 17, 2022. For the primary time in 48 years, the temple can be open to most of the people from April 28-June 11.
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The Washington D.C. Temple was the church’s solely temple east of the Mississippi when it was constructed. Church leaders supposed it to be putting and to be central to its message of the significance of household within the religion’s doctrine concerning the gospel of Jesus Christ.
As soon as the Capital Beltway’s route was settled, church leaders moved the temple’s location on the hill by 60 ft so as to add to its prominence to beltway drivers, based on historians.
Because the CBS tour entered the temple, O’Keefe requested the apostles and their wives if the information crew was strolling into one other realm.
The Washington D.C. Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is proven rising above the Capitol Beltway in footage by CBS Information Sunday Morning in April 2022.
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“Sure, symbolically,” Elder Bednar stated. “We’re leaving the world and coming into a extra heavenly place the place we study God.”
O’Keefe famous that many of the areas inside are windowless, hushed and intimate.
“One room that does wow is the baptistry,” he stated, explaining that it's a place for Latter-day Saints to be baptized on behalf of their ancestors who might select to simply accept or reject it within the afterlife.
The phase made it clear that the church’s public message a half century after the temple first opened continues to be centered round household. It additionally famous a more moderen message, that the church and its members now not refer themselves as Mormons, “emphasizing as a substitute what they share with different Christian faiths: a reverence for Christ,” O’Keefe stated.