Funny Quote about Modern-looking Churches

  • Thread starter Thread starter Orleans_Attny
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
We attend a very beautiful, traditional looking church. It is in a small town. It has many beautiful colorful stained glass windows, stations of the cross paintings nearby where you can see them… The church was rebuilt in 1936 after a fire and except for repairs they have tried to maintain it’s traditional look. It is small and sometimes cramped but while you are there, there is so much beautiful Catholic images you definitely know what is supposed to be on your mind.
I think that is what makes the difference in the architecture. A church not too far from us was recently remodeled and returned to a beautiful traditional look and I remember the priest saying when entering the church we are to feel as though we are entering heaven, leaving this world and all it’s cares and worries behind.
Another recent remoded church nearby fits the Brady living room design. And it is a very contemporary mass. Before my returning to the Catholic church I attended a couple of modern evangelical megachurches and this contemporary Catholic church gives you that same feel when inside.
I do think, though, as someone said a very contemporary looking Catholic church could have very traditional priests and masses.
My prayer is that God will raise up traditional priests and despite what the churches look like inside the mass will be what it is supposed to be.
 
BettyM said:
We attend a very beautiful, traditional looking church. It is in a small town. It has many beautiful colorful stained glass windows, stations of the cross paintings nearby where you can see them… The church was rebuilt in 1936 after a fire and except for repairs they have tried to maintain it’s traditional look. It is small and sometimes cramped but while you are there, there is so much beautiful Catholic images you definitely know what is supposed to be on your mind.
I think that is what makes the difference in the architecture. A church not too far from us was recently remodeled and returned to a beautiful traditional look and I remember the priest saying when entering the church we are to feel as though we are entering heaven, leaving this world and all it’s cares and worries behind.
Another recent remoded church nearby fits the Brady living room design. And it is a very contemporary mass. Before my returning to the Catholic church I attended a couple of modern evangelical megachurches and this contemporary Catholic church gives you that same feel when inside.
I do think, though, as someone said a very contemporary looking Catholic church could have very traditional priests and masses.
My prayer is that God will raise up traditional priests and despite what the churches look like inside the mass will be what it is supposed to be.
Click to expand...
i go to a church that was built 95 years ago. before hurricane katrina i went to a church that was 105 years old that has since been closed. i love them both, very traditional looking
 
I know the body of Christ will touch our flesh eventually, but it should be going into the mouth when that does happen. Until then, only the one with consecrated hands, who is in persona Christi, though I don’t recall if a deacon can administer the sacrament (if it’s possible, he’d a least have some orders, though not the sacrament of Holy Orders, which is another indelible mark on a priest’s soul after baptism and makes them different than us in a way that cannot be hidden by plain clothes in public). Still, St. Francis would choose receiving Jesus in that form from a priest, with possible venial sins or worse on his soul, than an angel, because only the priest can consecrate the host to bring us Christ. I know people want to participate, but Jesus should not be held in our hands, as Mother Theresa had said at times.
Any politician, ugly building or whore can become respectable, if around long enough–a paraphrased quote from “Chinatown,” as I suck at quoting movie lines.
 
I can’t stand modern-looking churches-they’re soooo uggggly!

I remember two in my European travels, both times in France. One was in Rouen, in the Old Market Place where St. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. It was built in 1979, to commemorate the 550th anniversary of her victory at Orleans. The way it was built was supposed to look like the leaping flames of the stake at which she died. The only saving grace of the place was a series of 16th-century stained glass windows, which were rescued from a church nearby before it was destroyed in World War II.

The other was in Lourdes, on the other side of the River Gave from the Grotto and the older churches. This was built in the mid-1980s and dedicated to St. Bernadette. The inside looked like a lecture hall or a European-style operating room…cold as anything!

Give me a soaring Gothic cathedral anyday!
 
Don’t get me started on the modern shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe (Mexican clowns go in clown get-up once a year, so I’m hoping they at least don’t have a clown Mass) and what I’ve seen of the modern shrine to St. Pio.
 
I attended TLM here this past Sunday, and I’m still awestruck about how beautiful this church is. (and it’s modern and new.) It brings tears to my eyes…really.

There’s even an altar to the BVM to the left and to St Joseph on the right.

If I lived closer, I’d go here all of the time…can’t seem to get our new church built here in Spartanburg!

princeofpeacetaylors.org/
 
With regard to modern churches, sin knows no denomination, no creed. I have seen dull and boring Catholic and Protestant churches. I have seen tasteful synagogues, and frightenly exuberent mosques and Hindu temples. Since many Buddhist churches are Japanese, there is a refinement in many that makes modernism quite lovely.

Would that Christians had some of that Japanese sensibility. Even Japanese Methodist churches don’t seem to measure up.
Brennan_Doherty said:
I also think modern churches can be beautiful if they are traditional and look Catholic. I think of modern as more of a style irrespective of when the church was built.

I have to say, though, that while some of the outside grounds of the monastery you linked to look very nice, the interior shot of the chapel looks ghastly. I haven’t been there, of course, but that’s my impression of it.
Click to expand...
 
Most churches in the urban area and in old suburbs were done with love for good; with the '60s, for love of modern sensibilities. There’s a simple style that’s plain, but not ugly, like a monastic cell in Into the Great Silence or something St. Francis built, as opposed to modern art’s funky, geometric shapes. I don’t know what the Japanese aesthetic for churches are, but our modern art church buildings come from a declining Western Civilization, as opposed to how it elevated art for all once. The Hindus and Buddhists built beautiful religious buildings too. They probably don’t build those either, but they did keep a lot of their version of sacramentals that were scoffed at by our clergy around V2, as did high Church Anglicans and Muslims. Those others are false faiths and religions and maybe that’s why Satan didn’t hit them so hard–not much a threat, so I’m definitely not saying maybe God shifted His favor to them. Satan went after the previous religion God sponsored, Judaism, and after the one since the new priesthood Christ started began, all Catholic rites under the Pope. I think most radical leftists were raised Jews or Catholics, sadly. When God lifts the confusion from our clergy, we’ll be bouncing back like never before and building churches that show our love of God based on the resources God has alloted us instead of monuments to our entitlement-addicted egos (to most of which, receiving Christ on our tongues, non-Catholics not receiving Christ, responding in Latin to some things, and a priest’s back being to us are a real put-outs).
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top