BABALU, MI JESUS!
Posted on 03/20/2006 7:50:53 PM PST by NYCCatholic
Pope’s upcoming Apostolic Exhortation likely to call for increased liturgical solemnity, reintegration of Latin
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. . . and now I'm off to confession too . . .
LOL! Good one!
BABALU, MI JESUS!
Why don't they ripe out the marble and sell it for scrap?
Replace all marble with whitewashed plastered walls.
Get rid of the ornate stain-glass windows and replace them with "attractive" stain glass windows that like this:
I'm voting for the renovated Cathedral of Sacramento (CA)! The renovated Cathedral of Savannah is great, too; the latter was beautifully restored after an earlier bishop had apparently attempted a wreckovation, btw, so there's always hope.
Now THAT is a splendid church!
Thank you for saying what we all were thinking.
nah! they didnt salvage the communion rail.
I dont think the salvaged the original marble. The altar feel through the floor durring the fire so that wasnt salvageable. The walls are pretty much white washed except the ceiling which is painted nicely. I was told it was painted to look like the ceiling of the original.
oh they did salvage the crucifix too. The stort goes that once the firemen realized they couldnt control the fire in the roof, they turned it into a salvage operation and took as many things out of the chuch as quickly as possible.
My parish, epiphany of our lord in plymouth meeting is actually replacing the "crayola crayon" looking stained windows and putting in new ones. They look really good! They are replacing the pulpit and ambo as well.
I heard they even want to redo the tabernacle and make it look more ornate which would improve the "modern refrigerator" look haha.
To be studied in Rome. There is nothing like drinking at the source. Those new priests will be hooked on Latinity for life.
Construction of new churches still cost a "small fortune." Why not spend a few more million and make it beautiful?
For 200 million dollars, this...
... was replaced with this:
We are so fortunate to have Fr. Robinson as one of the priests here in our parish. I attended a public talk about his book at the "evenings at the Oratory" a few months ago and he gently explained the thesis of his book. Very interesting. By the way, Mass at Holy Family parish, served by the Oratorians here, implements all the reforms of Fr. Robinson into the Novus Ordo Mass. I think most people would prefer the Novus Ordo when it is done with due reverence, soaring polyphonic chant, and without profane modernist "options."
Beautiful church. I have seen a few like that, but many more that have been desecrated.
I went to one of my grandsons' first communions, to a Church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and saw something similar recently. A huge church, like a basilica, all marble and beautiful statues and stained glass windows. An enormous number of little boys and girls with their families, everyone dressed up, waiting to receive First Communion or Communion.
No demographic problem there, like there is in the posher suburbs. And when it was over and we were all filing out, a whole new crowd of children and families came in the other door. The church was as big a basilica, but it turned out that they had to have two services, because the communicants and their families couldn't fit into the church for just one Mass!
BABALU, MI JESUS!
Hey true story...a women from my former NO parish asked me why she doesn't see me anymore, before I could answer another person responded telling her that I now go to a Latin mass.
"A Latin mass?" the first woman exclaimed, "why do you go to a Latin mass, are you Latin?"
yeah I love those people. They look at you like you are an alien for even sayung that. I have a couple of people from my parish where I am regisered at that go to the same latin mass I go to.
but alot of people look at me puszzled for even going to it.
You're very lucky to be in his parish. I thought his book was extremely interesting (complex but excellent points about the philosophical shift that led to, among other things, the current state of the Church and her ideas about herself in society, as well as the liturgy). I think the NO is basically rather deficient, but it is certainly bearable with his suggestions.
When I go to Mass in Spain, where the translation is much more accurate than the English translation, and the priests are not so given to impromptu flights of fancy, I find it much less distressing than I generally find Masses here in the US. Sometimes here in Florida I feel like my blood pressure has gotten so high I'm about to keel over in the pew! And I have low blood pressure to begin with...
LOL! A "Latin" Mass! Some people are so obtuse you hardly know where to begin sorting things out for them.
I've only ever gone to this Holy Family Mass, but recently I attended a Mass at a large Franciscan Church and wow what a difference. Electric guitars and drums, "props" used during the Homily, no penitential right, a cement alter on astroturf, tabernacle stuffed in a plywood box off to the side and of course Marty Hagen filling the air like fingernails across a blackboard. I felt utterly depressed afterwards, which I suppose was the goal
Starting a little early for a newbie, aren't you?
Another 100th post notch in my belt.
Our church is being renovated, again! Tabernacle is back in the middle on the altar where it belongs. Deus vult!
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