The old high altar, was three steps up and higher than the flimsy free standing altar placed there around 1966. The free standing altar consumed all the space of the sanctuary.
Thus with the renovation, I insisted that the sanctuary be raised higher and extended a bit into the nave. A new marble altar was designed and executed and placed on the same level as the high altar, giving the appearance from the nave that there was only one altar, not back to back altars as you can see in the photo above taken this past week.
The altar railing was restored but now at the level of the nave where it is easy for communicants to kneel on the first step where the railing is. This not only makes the railing safe to use, since the communicants don’t have to go up any steps, but also does not fence off the sanctuary or constrict it.
I find the interior of St. Joseph to include its sanctuary to be the nicest renovated old church, apart from Most Holy Trinity in Augusta, in Georgia.
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It is Beauteous/ Splendiferous as I like to say!!! You did an awesome job Father! Thank you!!!
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