A former parishioner of mine from St. Anne’s in Richmond Hill was married over the weekend at St. Peter’s Church in Vollo, Illinois.
The parish and its pastor understand that there should only be one main altar, not two, thus they use the historic altar for the Modern Mass.
It boggles my mind that so much money was wasted to destroy old altars, or place new altars in front of the original altar, but lower and less important looking.
The old rubrics for building altars, even if detached from the reredos, promotes reverence for the Mass and the Most Holy Eucharist. The Protestantizing of the Mass and our churches have left reverence and piety as it concerns the Mass, its celebration and respect for the Most Holy Eucharist, in shambles.
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