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To: ArrogantBustard; wideawake
Dear ArrogantBustard,

"Next time you feel adventurous, try a trip to Virginia Beach."

LOL. Actually, I've spent many, many Sundays at St. Bede in nearby Williamsburg. Have you seen their new facility (I hesitate to call it a "church")?? Ouch. I almost passed out when the army of 20 extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist tromped out to assist the priest and the deacon. In fairness, there were over a thousand folks at Mass that day, and the priest would have needed some assistance. But he could have easily cut the number by half just by eliminating offering the chalice.

As for Northern Virginia, it isn't part of the Archdiocese of Washington, so I bear no guilt. ;-) Since the death of Bishop Keating, No. Va. isn't what it used to be, it seems.

And I suppose that one can certainly find abuses here and there in the 140+ parishes in the Archdiocese of Washington.

But the point of my post was that we have all these things, which wideawake seems to suggest leads to abuses. Yet, our "abuse level" isn't particularly high. That's all.

Now in the neighboring Archdiocese of Baltimore...

But even there, things seem to be on an upswing. At a church where we occasionally attend Mass, a faux-marble tabernacle-less backdrop behind the altar has recently been replaced with a beautiful, ornamented wooden structure featuring dead-center, right behind the altar, a beautiful, gold tabernacle. Will wonders never cease.

Now we'll have to see whether the parish up the street (Archdiocese of Baltimore) gets rid of the "theater seating" and installs kneelers. Do I hope for too much?


sitetest
278 posted on 09/25/2003 8:50:57 AM PDT by sitetest
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To: sinkspur
Probably should have pinged you, too.
279 posted on 09/25/2003 8:59:00 AM PDT by sitetest
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To: sitetest
LOL. Actually, I've spent many, many Sundays at St. Bede in nearby Williamsburg.

The way they butchered that church is amazing and appalling.

NoVa is still very good, although I don't trust our bishop. My point was that as much as I found ADW to be an improvement over the DDR*, I found DA to be somewhat of an improvement over ADW. My current parish is in the process of building what will be a deliberately and explicitly traditional church-school-rectory complex, in Spanish Mission architecture. I've compared the drawings to original structures in southern California, and I think they got it right.

And I suppose that one can certainly find abuses here and there in the 140+ parishes in the Archdiocese of Washington.

In Laurel, there's a huge difference between St. Mary of the Mills and St. Nicholas...

a faux-marble tabernacle-less backdrop behind the altar has recently been replaced

Excellent.

282 posted on 09/25/2003 9:15:24 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (*Dreadful Diocese of Richmond)
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