[AnAmericanMother]

If Mass in the basement or on the hood of a Jeep is the best we can do, it's the best we can do.

" . . . forever and ever, Amen. Hit the dirt."

But we all ought to do the best we can.

God deserves our best art, our best architecture, our best music. Ad majorem Dei gloriam.

[Tax-chick]

But we all ought to do the best we can.

Oh, I agree. There's no argument that God deserves the very best we can give, and that there are objective "better" and "worse" in terms both of aesthetics and of religious function.

A different issue is whether an individual person experiences distress when all is not, by his lights, as it could be, with the building, art, music, fixtures, etc. I'm one who isn't bothered. Whether it's good fortune or a character weakness to be easily satisfied with the minimum basics of survival, I can't say and don't really care.