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Posted on 07/19/2005 10:25:36 AM PDT by Gillibrand
That space hasn't been deconsecrated? It's still used as a worship space? Unbelievable. I mean, its one thing to close a parish church and sell the building after deconsecration, to be used as the new owner sees fit. It's quite another to lease space within a functional parish church for the exhibition of "art" in grossly inappropriate ways and places. Good God in His Heaven.
Tell me I'm missing something here. Or is Europe really this far gone?
Like I tell my children over and over again: modern art is pure garbage. Since we're homeschooling, no one will be able to tell them that sh-t is Shinola.
And it is deliberately designed to interact with the church, the altars, and the memorials. So it's deliberate sacrilege.
Do we KNOW that the archbishop knows about this?
They're creepy and they're spooky, mysterious and kooky ...
If this were my church, I'd be there extra early next Sunday with a sledgehammer and a dumpster.
The Church has not been deconsecrated. The Blessed Sacrament is still reserved.
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Somebody needs to get after Abp. Daneels and get the lid put on this sacrilege (and excommunicate the artists and their sponsors to boot.)
Do we KNOW that the archbishop knows about this?
Well, when the Archbishop happens to be none other than the infamous Cardinal Daneels....enough said.
Diocese of Brussels, unfortunately, like most of the Low Countries in general has been a hotbed of both political and ecclesiastical liberalism/modernism for a long time.
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The Curé of the Church was thanked at the opening ceremony for being such a great art lover!!!! He was almost certainly present; I think he can be identified in the pictures of this ceremony, wearing sandals, but maybe not. He is certainly not the type to wear a Roman collar.
To: Cardinal Daneels and the Cure
From: Jesus Christ
Date: July 19, 2005
RE: My Church
Domus mea domus orationis vocabitur, sed vos fecistis speluncam latronum.
Translation:
My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.
And he [Ezechias] said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified, purify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all filth out of the sanctuary (2 Paralipomenon (Chronicles) 29:5).
Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary (Psalm 73 (74 in NAB): 3).
Outrageous!!!
After proudly acquainting the kids with all the alterations which had been done to what had obviously been a very beautiful church, the monsignor proceeded to ask the following question: "what is the most important part of this Church?"
Up went the hands.
"The tabernacle", said one kid.
"Nope", said the monsignor.
"The crucifix", said a second.
"Wrong", said the priest.
Other answers were then forthcoming. "The statues", "the holy water fonts", "the altar" among others, were all proffered. All incorrect.
Finally, after just about everything else had been eliminated, one kid raised his hand and said "the pews".
"Yessssss!!!" said the monsignor. "You are correct." "Why?" he asked .....and answering his own question went on to say "......because that's where the people sit".
I was remined of this incident because it seems to me that there are two fundamentally opposing views of what a Church is. The traditional view is that the focus should be on Jesus but the modernist tendency is to place it on ourselves. To make it all about us. When this happens, it gives rise to insanity like that in the Brussels Church which you highlight, where the focus is on self-indulgent examples of modern art and also in the example above of the whacky monsignor who thinks that the pews are more important than the tabernacle. Both are due to the removal of Jesus from the place of honor and replacing him with man and his works of "art".
This leads inevitably to sterility, ugliness and sacrilege.
The trash in the Brussels Church should either be in a dumpster or a modern art gallery, depending on your point-of-view, but not in a Church.
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