Retired Support Priest reminds me of those actors you see with very minor speaking parts that you have see. In so many plays and movies. You are clearly still impactful! Merry Christmas!!!
I went to mass at Bemont Abbey Basilica on All Saints Day. They, too, have replaced the steel, aluminum, and bronze sculpture by Armando del Cimmuto (1906-1996) that hung above the altar with a VERY large (to me, out of proportion and rather artless) crucifix.
Holy Family is such an unfortunate space. Fr. AJM is concerned about a more vivid color palette at another church where here, significant square footage has been doomed to mute beigy nothingness with a crucifix that would be more appropriate outdoors. Then, where a side shrine once would have been, a pipe organ reminiscent of late 1800s protestant church design is present (the northeast is slathered with protestant churches arranged this way - it works for them). The green is dated and tired. The tabernacle is too low, the crucifix way oversized, I don't understand the purpose/point of the shelving next to the tabernacle stand / altar and the pile of flowers in front of the altar should not be there preventing access. I don't know where to start with the almost unidentifiable ambo. This space is poor/lazy design and is distracting in its own way. This church looks like it was designed for the "Breaking Bread" hymnal instead of the other way around. A tired flowing water motif above the narthex doors or, whatever that's supposed to be.
I will qualify "lazy" by noting that most secular architects have a template that they modify for civic, religious, whatever style of building they have been hired to design. I'm sure if we look at this architects portfolio, this same recipe was used for protestant and Jewish worship spaces to the extent they were engaged for either. One size fits all and it looks it.
This Church smacks of Father Rich Conyers, a Holy Cross priest, who fancied himself a Church architect. I have seen his “work”, largely from the 1970s and 1980s, and they all look like this. He was a colorless fellow, and so were his designs
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Retired Support Priest reminds me of those actors you see with very minor speaking parts that you have see. In so many plays and movies. You are clearly still impactful! Merry Christmas!!!
I wonder if Holy Family could have found a L-A-R-G-E-R crucifix for the wall behind the altar...
Yes, way out of proportion!
I went to mass at Bemont Abbey Basilica on All Saints Day. They, too, have replaced the steel, aluminum, and bronze sculpture by Armando del Cimmuto (1906-1996) that hung above the altar with a VERY large (to me, out of proportion and rather artless) crucifix.
That sanctuary needs a serious makeover starting with that supersized crucifix being removed. A very uninspiring worship space
Holy Family is such an unfortunate space. Fr. AJM is concerned about a more vivid color palette at another church where here, significant square footage has been doomed to mute beigy nothingness with a crucifix that would be more appropriate outdoors. Then, where a side shrine once would have been, a pipe organ reminiscent of late 1800s protestant church design is present (the northeast is slathered with protestant churches arranged this way - it works for them). The green is dated and tired. The tabernacle is too low, the crucifix way oversized, I don't understand the purpose/point of the shelving next to the tabernacle stand / altar and the pile of flowers in front of the altar should not be there preventing access. I don't know where to start with the almost unidentifiable ambo. This space is poor/lazy design and is distracting in its own way. This church looks like it was designed for the "Breaking Bread" hymnal instead of the other way around. A tired flowing water motif above the narthex doors or, whatever that's supposed to be.
I will qualify "lazy" by noting that most secular architects have a template that they modify for civic, religious, whatever style of building they have been hired to design. I'm sure if we look at this architects portfolio, this same recipe was used for protestant and Jewish worship spaces to the extent they were engaged for either. One size fits all and it looks it.
This Church smacks of Father Rich Conyers, a Holy Cross priest, who fancied himself a Church architect. I have seen his “work”, largely from the 1970s and 1980s, and they all look like this. He was a colorless fellow, and so were his designs
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