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Saturday, January 22, 2022

INTERESTING “BEFORE” AND “AFTER” DISCUSS…

 This is a Lutheran Church. Their traditional liturgy is more Catholic than our modern liturgy. In other words it is more Tridentine in order and ethos. Their only  problem, and it is a big only, is they don’t believe Holy Orders is a Sacrament (only two Sacraments, Baptism and Communion). But they forget that to have a valid “Communion” you must have a valid Sacrament of Holy Orders, especially priests and bishops. 

But what they feign is pretty good at times from the “movie” point of view.

But someone actually opined that in St. Anne’s little Puritan chapel that went through the RCIA and was baptized, Confirmed and made Eucharistic in its Catholic conversion in 1955, it was wrong to place in it a Catholic altar, a tabernacle with vigil lamp and a San Damiano crucifix with ornate, Italianate altar frontal.Why? Because the chapel is or was Puritan. You can’t make this stuff up! But anyway:

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6 comments:

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

My liturgical OCDness brought my eyes in a laser fashion to the two candlesticks on the attached altar. The one of the left (Gospel side) is in the wrong place if you look at the one on the Epistle side or is the Epistle side correct. I’ll be obsessing on this for the rest of the day! It’s like an “eye worm”, I just can’t get that out of my sight!

Fr. Michael J. Kavanaugh said...

The sacristan does this to drive the pastor crazy!

Fr. Michael J. Kavanaugh said...

"But someone actually opined that in St. Anne’s little Puritan chapel that went through the RCIA and was baptized, Confirmed and made Eucharistic in its Catholic conversion in 1955, it was wrong to place in it a Catholic altar, a tabernacle with vigil lamp and a San Damiano crucifix with ornate, Italianate altar frontal.Why? Because the chapel is or was Puritan. You can’t make this stuff up!"

But you just DID make it up...

TJM said...

Fr K,

Making things up is your department! You even claim to know peoples’ motivations!

ByzRus said...


Beautiful renovation against some really tough architecture.

Wouldn't your chapel be more Georgian in style?

the Egyptian said...

who says modern can't be nice. To see some catholic churches look that good, sigh..