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A Response to “On administering Holy Communion in a Time of a Plague”
This was sent to me and deserves a read. You can read the Calivas article here . We can all agree that we are living in unusual times. However, the nature and extent of the illness that we face, and the proper response of the Church, is a matter of much disagreement. We have seen various responses to the COVID-19 epidemic: calls to close our Churches as infectious vectors, and demands to open them as places of spiritual healing. Directives a) ordering the cessation of sacramental life as part of an effort to “flatten the curve,” and cries for access to the divine grace that flows forth from those very mysteries; b) calling for the restriction of “at-risk persons,” and serious questions about the validity of such controls, c) instructions to liturgists to wear personal protective equipment during the celebration of the divine services and the distribution of the holy Mysteries, and uncertainty about the fitness of such practices. Who has been championing what and on behalf of whom? The ...
What else could one expect from Cardinal Marx? He is an embarrassment.
ReplyDeleteI know Roman Catholic priests who have inherited utterly simple/hideous altars and tabernacles, and salvage them by simply covering them completely with beautiful brocade.
ReplyDeleteIn this case, however, "salvaging" this altar would mean taking it to a junk yard. And to think the church probably paid and arm and a leg for such an item!
I'd be worried it would collapse under the Gospel book.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention the walls and windows have less decoration than my low-church Protestant home church.
ReplyDeleteNever! It looks more like a futuristic dog kennel than an Altar.
ReplyDeleteIs it a portable unit? (i.e. collapses)
ReplyDelete"Ah, the glories of the Second Vatican Council!" as the Roman priests and prelates were fond of saying 40 years ago. And now you see to what depths it has dragged them...
ReplyDeleteWell... it looks like the former iconostasis of St. George Antiochian in Phoenix. We used to call the altar area the helm of the starship Antioch.
ReplyDeleteHere: http://www.stgeorgeaz.org/index.php?id=24&albumID=5527942185373687697
ReplyDeleteUggh. How long ohh Lord? “...the spirit of wickedness in high places is now so powerful and many-headed in its incarnations that there seems nothing more to do than personally refuse to worship any of the hydras' heads.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a giant gold slinky gone terribly wrong.
ReplyDeleteIsn't this that game where each person has to pull a stick out until finally the thing falls down? I always hated that game.
ReplyDeletePossibilities:
ReplyDelete1. Klingon lie detector
2. Raccoon trap
3. Leftover prop from Patrick McGoohan's THE PRISONER
4. 4th-grade art project
5. Art-deco toilet bowl
6. A Faraday cage gone bad
7. Spay-and-neuter device from a veterinarian's clinic
8. Rejected first design for a 1930s Enigma code machine
9. Hi-tech hamburger maker from Target
10. Disco platform for a 1960s go-go dancer
Putting this in the context of wider liturgical trends in Catholic Europe:
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