Posted on 05/31/2006 1:15:20 PM PDT by Salvation
Oh where oh where is a holy hand grenade when you need one?
It is happening here in NYS. There are several dioceses, mine included, that span the gap of normative worship.
TREE OF LIFE
A sculptural fountain and an Offering Table for the Meditation Place.
The Meditation Place is designed to embrace many faiths, traditions and beliefs. The Tree of Life sculpture is a focal point in the design as an important symbol in almost every religion. In creating the sculpture I introduced additional connections. Apropos of a medical institution, the trees trunk transforms into a double helix of DNA. At the base of the helix is a fig leaf and a seed pod, the traditional symbol of Buddha. Along the spiraling strands are streams of life forms - leaves, sticks, flowers, snails, fish, and birds (over a hundred different images) all surging upward. The tree grows from a fountain that spills into a pool cut into a granite cube. The running water produces The Meditation Places ambient sound track.
Design team:
Fr. James Notebaart - liturgical designer;
Alexander Tylevich - sculptor;
Dietrich Spahn - glass designer;
Rafferty, Rafferty, Tollefson Architects (RRT)
That would be justice for Archbishop Flynn. I don't know about Father Altier.
Why don't they just have simple Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament? Go figure!
Dear NYer -
Just to tie it all together:
Another example of what is happening there!
Bishop Flynn has to go. Fr. Altier would make a great replacement.
Because he does NOT"run" the Church. So long as Flynn remains in authority, the pope will not intervene. WHY Rome does not remove him probably has to do with the support that Flynn enjoys in the American Church.
That solution would, indeed, be ironic!
Let nobody say that Archbishop Flynn tolerates dissent and runs a loose ship. Altier never knew what hit him. The good Catholics of Minnesota can sleep easier knowing Flynn got that troublemaker out of their midst.
If people like this kind of art, I have no problem.
But if people want to pretend that such art makes one ponder one's own relationship with the Holy Trinity and their own eternal destiny - such as the "liturgical designer" priest listed in the caption does - then I say, (in the words of Ray Romano's dad Frank) "Cut the crap."
Didn't Jesus say something about those who are "neither hot nor cold"? Bleah!
How about nauseated?
Design Vandalism team
"The Tree of Life" is nothing a well placed hand grenade couldn't cure.
GAG! That is some kind of hideous U-G-L-Y! My old cat had better looking scratching posts!
And predictably, the MSM lionizes every "progressive" Catholic who courts (or, in Egan's case, did court) the praise of the world more than the praise of God:
Sure, for decades, the Rev. Harvey Egan was the conscience of Minnesota. . . .
It's no wonder people went so nuts over Kessler. The heretics.
This reminds of that church in Belgium that turns into a mosque when muslims need it.
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