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Sunday, June 14, 2026

HOW IN THE NAME OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY, DO YOU SAFELY ACCESS THE TABERNACLE??? OTHERWISE A BEAUTIFUL NEW CHURCH SLIGHTLY NORTH OF DOWNTOWN ATLANTA…


Harrison Design and the Church of Mary Our Queen in Peachtree Corners, Georgia

Harrison Design and the Church of Mary Our Queen in Peachtree Corners, GeorgiaThe architects at  Harrison Design , a firm based out of Atlanta, Georgia with various other satellite offices, undertood a project in recent years to design a new church for the parish of Mary, Our Queen in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. Harrison Design themselves note that the…


7 comments:

TJM said...

A step stool?

Fr. Michael J. Kavanaugh said...

Other pictures online show that there is a credence table directly behind the altar. It looks like it is built in.

I found a YouTube video - there are steps hidden behind the low wall behind the altar. These allow access to the tabernacle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKTvgcTSCoE

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

The link doesn’t show the tabernacle access. The credence table where it is is odd! The music off-putting too! Sheesh! Where to I find an image for the tabernacle access?

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

I see this even at our Cathedral, rather than the server handing the priest the water and wine, it is placed on the altar and the server takes it away—when and why did that develop????

TJM said...

To diminish the role of the altarboy?

Fr. Michael J. Kavanaugh said...

In the video the first two steps on the left side can be seen even with the candlestick's bobeche.

I've never understood placing the cruets on the altar.

Fr. David Evans said...

It looks to me that you drag of of those chairsover towards the tabernacle, stand on it to climb onto the false Altar to gain access.