Posted on 12/22/2005 10:49:19 AM PST by Gillibrand
The Virgin Mary and St Joseph, both faceless, seek logdings - an illustration from the front cover of the Diocesan newspaper.
What a contrast with MariaHilf (Mary Helper), one of the major pilgrimage shrines in the Diocese.
The retreat centre of the Diocese has been placed under the patronage of Mariahilf. It is also called Spectrum Church. The Germans trying to keep up with the Austrians and their plague of rainbow churches.
On the 8th December, they forgot the Feast of the Immaculate which the rest of the Catholic world were celebrating but rather celebrated a Festival Mass to commemorate "40 years of the spirit of Vatican II". I am sure that Cardinal Koenig, the late Archbishop of Vienna would drink to that.
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