UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!
I FOUND THE NEW WEBSITE THE INSTITUTE OF CHRIST THE KING’S TAKE OVER OF SAINT ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY CHURCH IN CLEVELAND. YOU CAN LOOK AT IT HERE. THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER POSTED THE CHURCH’S PREVIOUS AND NOW OUTDATED WEBSITE, AS DEVIOUS AS THEY ARE IN DOING SO.
THIS NEW PHOTO I POST IS HOW THIS CHURCH LOOKS TODAY AFTER THE HORRIBLE ICONOCLASM DONE BY THE INSTITUTE OF CHRIST THE KING BY REMOVING AND DISMANTLING THE SO-CALLED “HISTORIC” POST VATICAN II FREE-STANDING ALTAR.
DO SO HAS SO EMBITTERED DYING BABY BOOMERS WHO RESENT THAT THE SPECTACULARLY BEAUTIFUL HISTORIC POST-VATICAN II FREE STANDING ALTAR WAS REMOVED CAUSING THE HORRIBLE AND NASTY PRE-VATICAN II ALTAR TO BE USED ONCE AGAIN (FORTUNATELY NO BITTER BABY BOOMER REMOVED IT AS THEY DID IN OTHER MAGNIFICENT PRE-VATICAN II CHURHES:
THE HISTORIC FREESTANDING ALTAR BEFORE ITS REMOVAL:
AND A PARISHIONER CRYING CROCODILE TEARS AT THE REMOVED AND NOW DISMANTLED PIECE OF ART OF A HISTORIC FREE STANDING ALTAR. OH! THE AGONY OF IT ALL!
Shaking his head, Bob Purgert tilted one of the pedestals that supported the top of what is now a dismantled altar, stored in an unheated hall on the property of his beloved St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church in Cleveland's economically struggling Buckeye neighborhood.
He showed a visitor the casters under the pedestal that allowed for the altar to be rolled aside for special events. Chipped and splintered wood could be seen atop and along the sides of the pedestal, a second one next to it and the altar top resting on a table nearby.
"They didn't have to do this," a disappointed Purgert, 71, said of the damaged altar. Parishioners are deeply proud of the altar, which parish priest Fr. Julius Zahorszky built in 1966 to accommodate the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
Hungarian Cardinal József Mindszenty celebrated Mass at the altar during a 1974 visit to the parish. Pope Francis declared the cardinal, who resisted Hungary's communist government after World War II, venerable in 2019, making the altar a second-class relic if he is canonized a saint.
"They didn't have to do this," Purgert repeated. "They could have moved the altar. They could have moved it to the vestibule if they didn't want to see it, and then it could be moved back for weddings or funerals for our parishioners."
Purgert's ire is focused on the Chicago-based Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, which since July has been establishing its presence at St. Elizabeth for Latin Mass adherents. The group celebrated its first Latin Mass at the shrine on Sept. 24.
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A Latin Mass community moved in. Then wrecked a historic Vatican II altar.
7 comments:
Braindead is the only way to explain it!
Our parish is doing a renovation, selling off the wooden table installed in the bad ol' days and restoring our prior stone altars. As far as I know, few tears have been shed over this, but I'm sure the National _______ Reporter could dig up someone with grievances.
Nick
NCR - always fighting the last war
Thank you, Father, for the link to the new page!
Another upset parishoner interviewed remarked of the fond memories made as a child during the annual fall festival when they'd all ride the altar down the hill in front of the church.
Bob,
LOL!
As for the NCR article making political hay over the venerable Cardinal using the roll-away altar, one could question if NCR did any real journalism to determine if the Cardinal was informed the free-standing was also free-rolling....personally I doubt either happened, most certainly the real journalism never happened as truth might wreck their story.
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