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To: fortunecookie
I especially loved 'Christ Rising' (in place of a Crucifix)
During the liturgy, our Processional Cross will stand behind the sculpture. It is also made of black walnut and crafted by Martin Ratermann in such a way that its organic shape stands in harmony with the trees outside the window behind it.

So, does it resemble a traditional Crucifix when everything is in place?

11 posted on 07/28/2005 9:46:15 AM PDT by siunevada
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To: siunevada

I don't know. But it seems as if they are taking everything that Catholics hold as important for a 'worship space', a church and making it the opposite. Now, the space itself could indeed be a plain room. I have attended Mass at a hotel where a folding table was dressed with a white linen, adorned with a Crucifix, and it was celebrated by a good and holy priest, one of the most powerful Masses I've had the privelege to attend. But the basic tenets of how and why we believe what we believe are subtly challenged and turned a 180 in this space, it seems to me. We look to Christ's sacrifice on the Cross, we use the Stations of the Cross to remind us of his journey to that sacrifice. This seems absent here, and purposely or not, relegates the importance of Christ's sacrifice to a lesser position. Now, of course, we joyfully worship the Risen Lord, but we don't discount his sacrifice made out of love for us.


14 posted on 07/28/2005 10:50:05 AM PDT by fortunecookie
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