Will there be a crackdown on ad orientem at the original altar? Will the table have to go back?
Before as the "ironing board" altar is being removed:
After, which is really the before, and the above, an after and this one below an after, after! It is so much cleaner looking. We don't need multiple main altars. (Side altars are fine) although the table altar looks like it will become the credence table so the next pastor can restore it and it will become after, after, after!
At least when the "ironing board" altar was installed, they extended the predella forward in a more spacious way to accommodate it rather than putting it below the old main altar which at least made the "Ironing board" altar look like the main altar.
7 comments:
Unencumbered access to the high altar just looks more ordered. The high altar is a place of unity, not division as was the free standing altar approached from behind.
It's a shame that the "ironing boards" have been so maligned. But, dwarfed by something that functioned well and was a focal point, they look both inferior and barren. If all they had was the table altar, tabernacle in center flanked by the 6 candles yet accessible on all sides, it would look equally as grand. It would also look Byzantine....actually more Greek than Slavic.
So much agonizing over eucharistic towers, screens and the other novelties of the last 50+ years so as not to "take away from the altar". How can you take away from something that really isn't allowed to be anything? Then, have your "Art and Environment Committee" tacky it up with ugly clothes and things piled on the floor in front (don't forget to have only have flowers on one side, some pillar candles only on the other side and, of course, only one of those liturgical color stole looking things hanging down one side in the front) . Tasteless, not transcendent.
Transfiguration of Our Lord Parish
740 Teall Ave. Syracuse, NY.
(315) 479-6129 | transfigurationsyr@syrdio.org
Some photos: https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x89d9f2fd66acdc91%3A0x137dc994444d5ef3!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMeGVThGXjrmORy_nRC0A03rVAYMxTSZVKaC2o7%3Dw149-h160-k-no!5stransfiguration%20of%20our%20lord%20parish%20syracuse%20ny%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCgIgAQ&imagekey=!1e2!2siivC3XcahQ8Z2daQVmGcAg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9hfiexd_1AhUEheAKHRDmC_QQoip6BAgrEAM
I love this architectural style, whatever it is called. Looks slightly removed from Art Deco.
This I do not care for. They wonder why men don't go to church.
https://i0.wp.com/allsaints-pas.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/thanksgiving-altar.jpg?ssl=1
Cardinal Cupich has allowed ad orientem at parishes that have a Latin OF which was a pleasant surprise
TJM, is there a written source for this news? Thanks.
Yes, last Sunday’s bulletin of St. Odilo’s Church in Berwyn, Il. I used to go there sometimes when I did not have time to make it down to St. John Cantius near downtown. Father Juncer is the pastor there and was formerly a member of the Canons of St. John Cantius. He is now a diocesan priest. This parish is half Anglo, half Hispanic so it was nice seeing Veterum Sapientia put into action there - “Latin is the language which joins the Church of today.”
Post a Comment