Saint Veronica, Detroit…
The only good thing about this renovation, in keeping with what Vatican II demanded, (not!) is that it could easily, or somewhat easily, be erased as the old wasn’t destroyed.
Please note that now there are two separate sanctuaries, not just double altars.
Please note that the new sanctuary has the ambo and altar on equal footing, diminishing both. That configuration is very 1970’s!
Please note how the flowers, thanks be to God, overwhelm the new sanctuary.
The whole post-Vatican II thingy is a hot, cluttered mess—no noble simplicity of the pre-Vatican II set-up!
Sad, very sad!
8 comments:
The space did need tidying-up but it looks like someone had a hellofalot of money and didn't know what to do with it.
Not as weird and incoherent as that parish that has not one, not two, but three altars! The high altar, which was kept through wreckovation, a free-standing altar a couple steps down in the sanctuary apparently used for Sunday Masses, and a third one, little more than a kitchen table, just out of the sanctuary in the nave, apparently used for weekday Masses. It was posted about here a few months ago, can't remember the church for the life of me.
Nick
Found it: https://southernorderspage.blogspot.com/2026/03/well-this-is-interestingwell-its-only.html
Well at least they left the High Altar in place for the day the Cranmer's Table can be tossed
Schlock.
How much seating was removed for this 'improvement' ?
Fr. Evans, with declining Mass attendance, seating is no longer an issue!
Methinks you be right. But hardly proposes an optimistic future of sharing the Gospel
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