THE PRE-VATICAN II CHURCH’S EHTOS OF REVERENCE, GRANDEUR AND MAJESTY AND THEN THEY GOT RID OF THAT WHEN THEY PLACED THAT SILLY LOOKING FREESTANDING ALTAR BELOW THE MAJESTIC, GRAND, AWE-INSPIRING HIGH ALTAR THEY LEFT IN PLACE SO YOU COULD COMPARE THE TWO AND THE DUMBING DOWN OF MAJESTY IN THE MODERN POST-VATICAN II CHURCH

 Look at this Holy Year Mass celebration at a grand basilica in Rome on Laetare Sunday.

Do you even notice the post-Vatican II free-standing altar? You have to look hard to see it as it is swallowed up in a sea of clerics of mercy as the altar is only a step up from where they are sitting in the nave.

The old high altar, mercifully still there, looks much closer as it is much higher and the entire altar is seen as well as the entire corpus of the priest if he were standing at that altar celebrating Mass facing the same direction as everyone else. 

If you want to know why there is such a malaise of awe, wonder, reverence, and majesty in the post Vatican II Church, look at the placement of this post-Vatican II free standing altar. Why would you build such a grand basilica with all the art in it for that silly looking, inconspicuous altar when the old high altar show why that grand basilica was built!