Posted on 03/12/2014 4:02:15 PM PDT by NYer
I believe the Bible has several verses about giving God our First fruits.
Thanks for the non-jerk answer. That makes sense.
The church is STUNNING. Love it.
The church in our town is a very modern structure-—not my taste at all—but I guess it serves its purpose.
Can you tell I’m old—LOL!
I’m sure God is impressed. /sarc
It's the way a Catholic Church should look! Call me old fashioned but I prefer the old and true.
Me too, I have seen to many remodels that I could only describe as modern crapulous.
This church is beautiful now. I can’t stand modern churches, or cold sterile ones. The dichotomy between Protestant and Catholic churches is that Protestant ones are cold and sterile, but the music is lush and gorgeous (the hymns), and the Catholic churches are often beautiful, but the music (with the exception of Gregorian chant), in particular the hymns, stink. Too bad there can’t be a blend of the two.
“Who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?” -Romans 11:34
There’s no question that Catholic churches could use a renovation in the music department.
The Catholic hymn that always cracks me is Let us drink bread together on our knees. The second verse is Let us drink wine together on our knees.
It just hits me as funny and I have to suppress at least a grin as we are singing it.
It wouldn’t bother me at all to use some of the old Protestant hymns in Mass. Many of them are lovely and have nice messages—Like the oldy “What a friend we have in Jesus”.
I have heard those described as wreckovations.
Wreckovation is ok, but I think my term is more descriptively correct, I’ve seen it done to more than one church around me.
So glad to see this work of beauty and love.
Completely off-base. No money should have been spent on wreckovating the church in the first place. Every penny spent on restoring it to what its original parishioners DONATED to have it look like is a wise spending of money.
I am convinced there is (or should be) a very special place in hell for people that reduce places of worship to architectural obscenity.
“Let us break bread together on our knees” is a black spiritual song. It is not a Catholic hymn.
Actually, I think fervor for "acts of beauty" and "acts of charity" go hand in hand: they spring from the same generous hearts, who truly want to fulfill the Second Great Commandment as well as the First.
Plus, people of modest means give, willingly, for a beautiful sanctuary in which to enshrine God's Word and Sacrament. It's been truly said that St. Patrick's in New York was built by the $5 donations of house maids, cops and taxi drivers. They wanted the best, the most splendid and magnificent, to go to God.
In fact --- do this -- google Venerable "Pierre Toussaint," and read about the Haitian freed slave and hairdresser who help build Old St. Patrick's on Mott Street. He was stylist to some of the most stylish of New York's elite, and he used his earnings in the early 1800's to help other freed slaves, to educate orphans, to care for the sick and homeless, and to raise high the arches of New York's original cathedral on Mott Street. He's a wonderful example of an uncommon "common man" who was delighted to help "God's poor," and delighted to make His altars magnificent.
Lovely, also nice to see the return of the communion rail.
‘”Give me back my felt banners!” Said no one ever.’
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