There is hope for your ugly church!

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This has made my day, finally someone is at least doing something about the ugly, progressive churches we all have suffered by seeing.

Here is a person who actually makes Catholic Churches look Catholic!

hmenzies.com/profile.html

God Bless
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Nice touch on most but his style in most of those images is too similar.
 
decn2b said:
Nice touch on most but his style in most of those images is too similar.
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I would agree that he is definetly serving a much needed role, but would like to see more originality. Perhaps we will see more people stepping up to plate.

I love my parish, but there are a few things I would like to see redone. I can say that there is serious (and i mean serious) discussion about moving the Stations back into the main church (at present they are in the daily mass chapel, nice but hard to do a large group devotion).

Lets pray we see more people help those poor lamentable churches that were terribly misguided for so many years.
 
You gotta admit it is a step in the right direction.
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God Bless
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The cathedral in CT looks stunning. Imagine midnight Mass there with a fine choir and schola, and the snow falling gently outside.
 
I am shocked, simply shocked! In every case he puts the Tabernacle in the center right behind the altar. How can a bishop execute his proper authority to supress the Tridentine Mass with the Tabernacle there? Oh this will never do! 😉

Seriously, these places all have a kind of modern, yet sacred feeling about them. Modern is not bad, but sacred it good. I would like to see some more statues, but this is certainly an improvement over some of the hideous things that can be found elsewhere.

It is certainly a step in the right direction. I doubt, however, he will get any commisions in L.A. or my diocese.
 
This one didn’t even have pews with kneelers though. It would’ve been nice if they all had before and after pictures.

Even my Lutheran church looks more Catholic (stained glass, pews with kneelers, communion rail, communion cup (although they pour it into plastic containers first for sanitary reasons - the cup is only used when a Bishop is present. Who is he? I have no idea! :rotfl: ), etc.) than some modern churches (minus statues and such)
 
It is certainly nice to see some 60’s era churches made more “churchy”.

I had a conversation with one of the priests from my diocese recently, and we agreed that many ugly and banal modern churches could really be helped out by simply making the “worship space” into a decent looking sanctuary and adding decent stained glass, statues, other art work, maybe a baldichino, etc.
 
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