Here is a facinating and well presented article about the loss of Sacred Art and Images in our churches in the often intemperate post-Vatican enthusiam to comply with the new requirements. Hopefully, this trend will start to reverse and we’ll see Sacred Images once again adorn our churches to inspire and edify us spiritually.
“In one rural parish, men of the parish battered the stone communion rail to pebbles with sledge hammers and used the resulting gravel on the driveway.”
What kind of a man would take a sledgehammer to the communion rail in their parish church? Don’t these philistines realize how people, many of them poor immigrants, sacrificed to scrape together money to build and furnish these beautiful old churches?
These arrogant “liturgical/architectural consultants” are slapping the face of decades of parishoners. They look down their noses at these people as “piously simple” and demand that sacred art and architecture be altered or destroyed in the name of updating a “worship space.”
It’s pitiful and disgusting and there’s nothing in Vatican II that justifies it. Using the cover of an eccumenical council to profane our churches and destroy our sacred art is disturbing and the bishops who allow it should be ashamed. :tsktsk:
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