Does it say right on there that it’s a liberal, Protestant-style interfaith service, or are you just assuming that part?
Normally I would agree, but in this case we are talking about a hospital. Spouses or other family members there of staff or patients may have a need for this kind of thing.
Firstly, yes, any hospital chapel should respect the fact that those non-Catholics who choose to attend these interfaith services (most of them will in fact be non-Catholics who are attending precisely BECAUSE they aren’t Masses) are in an extremely emotional state and will most likely not take kindy to being evangelised. In fact who’s to say that these interfaith services would even be run by Catholics?
Yes, it may happen. However, one could easily be more swayed to become a Muslim, or a Buddhist or a Hindu Pagan from what they might see at these interfaith services if they are weak in their Faith.
If you don’t tell them, or give them the impression by almost endorsing their religion, thats exactly what they are going to assume.
Maybe there could be a disclaimer somewhere like we still are here for you 24/7 in the event you would like to know more about the CC?
Heretics and adherants of False religions (this includes Protestantism) who are not inconceivably ignorant don’t go to Hell? (and let me stress, such Ignorance is incredibly rare - more so than the Modernists and Relativists would have you believe)
Then why dont we teach the Hell prospect then? I have never seen it done.
This is a hospital chapel, not a Catholic church right? I was in the Cleveland airport recently and there was a “interfaith” chapel there. I could see the red candle burning, so there was a tabernacle, but the sign posted stated when Mass was, when different Protestant services were held. I thought it was a fabulous idea to provide religious services when people are traveling. It’s the same at hospitals, in my experience. So, I’m not really sure what the problem is.
Hosptial chapels usually do not have a Tabernacle. The Blessed Sacrament would normally have to be removed, for the chapel to be used for anything other than a Catholic Mass. In this case it is a simple prayer chapel.
Nope, the Tabernacle is on one of the side altars. It is permament.
WOW! That is spectacular. I have never seen anything like that in a hospital before. I suppose at one time the Sisters most likely lived on the property and this was their chapel. I had looked this up a few years ago. But we found documents that indicated the the Blessed Sacrament needed to be removed from the tabernacle and secured, before anything other than a Catholic liturgy could take place in the space. It was found under use of “Sacred Space”? I recall it also indicated that the altar was never to be used for ANYTHING but celebrating a Catholic Mass, with no exceptions.
Well, after the TLM the FSSP seminarians who served the Missa Cantata brought a wooden table out of the sacristy (that is an actual wooden table, like something you might have in your kitchen) and placed it in front the the High Altar you can see in the pictures. This is what they use for the weekly Novus Ordo Mass and the interfaith service. I also noticed that the statues get cloths draped over them and the candles and crucifix on the High Altar are taken away.