tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post222336648185292635..comments2023-11-24T06:43:02.286+00:00Comments on Aspicientes in Jesum: ReorderingPastor in Montehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05949810648656544072noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-37376213903014514732011-01-07T15:04:53.790+00:002011-01-07T15:04:53.790+00:00PIV,
Well, at least you tried to do something pos...PIV,<br /><br />Well, at least you tried to do something positive about it - good for you. I have heard many cases where PPs have tried to bring beauty and order back, often with money from their own pockets, to be moved on by bishops etc.<br /><br />The worst re-ordering I ever heard about was St. George's Sudbury. Fr. Clement Russell had built a beautiful and liturgically minded interior. It survived for many years after his death in the mid-1960s. I saw the church in 1992 the morning before I visited a dying friend in a hospice. My friend had told me about the church, and Fr. Russell, and was delighted to learn it was still fine. My freind died a week or so later and St. George's was gutted of its exquisite interior within eighteen months.Rubricariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05050302650867319277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-75186491740412807912011-01-05T18:20:19.487+00:002011-01-05T18:20:19.487+00:00Our Lady of Peace, Braintree ,Essex, was the last ...Our Lady of Peace, Braintree ,Essex, was the last church to be consecrated before the outbreak of WWII. Its fine baldachino and sanctuary arrangements were illustrated by his own drawing by PF Anson in one of his books on church architecture. Alas, all gone, as is the lovely work of the Guild at Ditchling in the church of St. Wilfred, Burgess Hill, Sussex.vetusta ecclesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09454059029260192711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-61228313193490173152011-01-04T16:37:21.612+00:002011-01-04T16:37:21.612+00:00The re-ordering was like a second Reformation - ou...The re-ordering was like a second Reformation - out went anything which looked at all 'Catholic.' I remember when another statue of the Sacred Heart was 'rescued' in one of my old parishes. It had languished in the bell tower for years banished from sight until at last it was restored in a place of honour.pelerinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-45590872045634410892011-01-04T11:04:30.012+00:002011-01-04T11:04:30.012+00:00Reading this cannot but make me wonder if there wa...Reading this cannot but make me wonder if there was something almost diabolical about the re-ordering of sanctuaries that took place after the council.Aduliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00534730218402742905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-13657842047982317792011-01-04T09:02:10.964+00:002011-01-04T09:02:10.964+00:00As the curate, there was very little I personally ...As the curate, there was very little I personally could do but encourage the then parish priest, a very good man who was a little less advanced (by which I mean traditional) in his views than I. We placed a wooden mensa on the bleeding stump of the altar which gave enough space and more dignity to it, and enabled a frontal to be hung before it. And we rescued the statue of the Sacred Heart from on top of the font and placed it in the sanctuary (thus also rescuing the baptistery).Pastor in Montehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05949810648656544072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-70480570619541062872011-01-04T08:57:50.935+00:002011-01-04T08:57:50.935+00:00Were you able to reverse any of the second re-orde...Were you able to reverse any of the second re-ordering?Rubricariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05050302650867319277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-81915652772451625582011-01-03T19:04:55.130+00:002011-01-03T19:04:55.130+00:00Some of the most interesting works of Catholic arc...Some of the most interesting works of Catholic architecture and design are those which cusped the opening and conclusion of the Second Vatican Council. Some had to be redesigned half way through, others, like the Sacred Heart, Hove, had been carefully re-furnished a few years previously.<br /><br />The second happened throughout the country. One instance was St Thomas of Canterbury, West Hill, Wandsworth, where a Canon took enormous pains to have the sanctuary refurnished according to the rubrics current in 1958 as interpreted by Fr O'Connell.<br /><br />Within seven years this had to be largely dismantled but he kept the massive stone high altar, detached it from the reredos, and moved it into the centre of the sanctuary. It nearly broke his heart to do it, but he believed in obedience. <br /><br />St Thomas's never looked quite right thereafter and the altar has been removed during the last three years, and replaced by an anodyne substitue. I wonder if the priest you mention in Hove had a similar reaction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807826652341078989.post-5571780555133522122011-01-03T17:29:47.626+00:002011-01-03T17:29:47.626+00:00I guess his heart just wasn't in the second re...I guess his heart just wasn't in the second re-ordering.Lauranoreply@blogger.com