Perhaps the first photo, the one with the neon light show but Benedictine altar arrangement, is some poor traditional Priest doing the best he can with what he has been given. God Bless him if that is the case.
Does anyone know what the statistics are on Churches who were wreckovated during the last few decades that are now re-installing High Altars, Altar Rails, and Reredoes, and washing away the whitewash, reinstalling statues etc. I read about it here and there going on but do not know if there is any statistical data that things are turning around. As for the neon blue light thing, will that really be relevant in another 20 or 30 years? A parish should really think about that before they go and design new arrangements and spend fortunes of money. More often sooner than later they are once again ripped apart and restored to a more traditional platform. A church renovation should last 100 years or more. Not something to be done every decade like changing wallpaper.
Please no more plaster of paris statues in reversing the wreckovator destruction of the past 40 years. Hire a decent artist or sculptor to produce a worthy piece of church art, or invest in some really fine icons.
Byzantine artists are bountiful and so are the supply houses for fine icons. The Greek and Russian Orthodox have some really good ones online. Most Roman Catholic sponsored catalogs have mediocre to poor selections and they're outrageously priced!!
'The neon light show', as your correspondent puts it, is, in fact, stained glass in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, England. The building pre-dates the new liturgy by a couple of years, is a very prayerful church in spite of its immense size, and is much-loved by Catholics here. The cathedral is built on top of the crypt, designed by Lutyens, of what would have been the biggest church in the world. The project proved too costly in the end, and in 1960, the new archbishop, Heenan, scrapped the grand scheme and launched an international competition, which produced the present building. It is affectionately referred to in the city as 'Paddy's Wigwam'.
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Perhaps the first photo, the one with the neon light show but Benedictine altar arrangement, is some poor traditional Priest doing the best he can with what he has been given. God Bless him if that is the case.
The traditional chapel photo that has been wreckovated looks strangely like a Masonic temple in the redesign.
Does anyone know what the statistics are on Churches who were wreckovated during the last few decades that are now re-installing High Altars, Altar Rails, and Reredoes, and washing away the whitewash, reinstalling statues etc. I read about it here and there going on but do not know if there is any statistical data that things are turning around. As for the neon blue light thing, will that really be relevant in another 20 or 30 years? A parish should really think about that before they go and design new arrangements and spend fortunes of money. More often sooner than later they are once again ripped apart and restored to a more traditional platform. A church renovation should last 100 years or more. Not something to be done every decade like changing wallpaper.
Please no more plaster of paris statues in reversing the wreckovator destruction of the past 40 years. Hire a decent artist or sculptor to produce a worthy piece of church art,
or invest in some really fine icons.
Byzantine artists are bountiful and so are the supply houses for fine icons. The Greek and Russian Orthodox have some really good ones online. Most Roman Catholic sponsored catalogs have mediocre to poor selections and they're outrageously priced!!
'The neon light show', as your correspondent puts it, is, in fact, stained glass in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, England. The building pre-dates the new liturgy by a couple of years, is a very prayerful church in spite of its immense size, and is much-loved by Catholics here. The cathedral is built on top of the crypt, designed by Lutyens, of what would have been the biggest church in the world. The project proved too costly in the end, and in 1960, the new archbishop, Heenan, scrapped the grand scheme and launched an international competition, which produced the present building. It is affectionately referred to in the city as 'Paddy's Wigwam'.
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