Modern Churches vs. old Churches

[Goldy]

Here’s a good analogy pertaining to this topic. I’m a school teacher here in Indianapolis. If my students (Catholics) walked into my classroom (a church) and saw nothing but four white walls and five rows of desks, would that environment foster learning in an effective way? However, if I painted the walls yellow, put up several educational posters, and did other room decorating, that would definitely foster a better learning atmosphere. Studies prove this. The environment elevates the students minds to education. The same is true in our churches with regard to our spirituality!!! God bless

 

[Cavaille-Coll]

I don’t want to hijack this thread, so I’ll say here and now that all churches should have flying buttresses.

I’m sure most protestants you know are fine people. Doesn’t alter the fact that their religion was founded by Satan. The deceiver. A liar and murderer from the beginning.

Unless you are claiming that God had something to do with the division in the Mystical Body which has continued for 500+ years now.

Modernism is very much reflected in modern architecture. Both religious and secular.

Remember that our sinfulness is informed by three things: the devil, the flesh (ourselves), and the world. Perhaps Satan put a bug in the ear of one reformer or another, but they had the free choice to act on it (except Calvin, who was predestined to separate just kidding!). One cannot be a heretic unless they are first a Catholic.

The separation of our Christian brethren is truly unfortunate, but look at it this way. Certain architectural and liturgical customs they have inherited from Catholicism, like altar rails, rood screens, antiphonal psalms, translations of liturgical texts often closer to the original Latin than those from ICEL, and (particularly amongst devout Lutherans) a deep sense of the need to receive communion worthily. It is time to reclaim these things they have been preserving for us. We have a long way to go, but we are closer to unity – a true, unadulterated Catholic unity – then we have been since the Reformation. When Lutherans and Methodists are praying the Rosary (many are right now!) and many Evangelicals are coming to accept that the Eucharistic teachings of Christ in John 6 are meant to be taken literally (yes, this is happening!), this is a huge advance in ecumenism. We have come a long way from the days when Catholics were anti-American idol worshippers and Protestants were hell-bound snake handlers.