Thank you!
Now if y'all really want a reason to cry, I could see if I can get my scanner to work - and scan/post a b&w pic of the sanctuary of that magnificent church.
Six months after I was confirmed, the church was rubble. It was demolished and replaced with a high-rise: the new chancery office.
Also some six months after I was confirmed there the Novus Ordo Missae began to be used in US churches. It was never said in that church - the Msgr, who was a Permanent Rector, refused to change the altar, or put in a NO table.
I still remember looking at that mural on the back wall of the church over the reredos of the high altar - which contains iconic images of scenes from the Apocalypse.
The mural on the wall......the Apocalypse.....the Alpha and Omega figuring prominantly......the year 1969 - the last of the Tridentine.........just before the introduction of the new mass........the old Msgr. who desperately prepared all the children in the 5,6,7,8 grades for Confirmation out of fear for their souls..........because the school and church were to close.......and he knew of the changes to come, as a theologian.........
None of this imagery is lost on me. And probably not on the old Msgr. May God rest his Christian soul.