Posted on 05/27/2014 5:37:07 AM PDT by statestreet
“A voice in Rama was heard, lamentation and great mourning…”
Those are the words of Jeremias the Prophet. St. Matthew’s gospel tells us that they foreshadow King Herod’s murder of Bethlehem’s infant males following the birth of Christ, who Herod feared might usurp his ill-gotten earthly throne.
Holy innocents die for different reasons. In every generation. In every place.
A church — a very special church — by that name is scheduled to die in Manhattan’s Garment District.
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but it angers me no end when I see gorgeous pieces of architecture being sidelined or destroyed because someone decided it was no longer useful or worthy or something.
That church is part of my America and some of the thousands or millions of people that have passed through those doors helped contribute to this home of the brave and land of the free.
That church is part of my heritage and I resent an authority determining its usefulness.
Any side bets on it being replaced by a mosque?
All such closings are tragedies. But this slated closure has already attracted city-wide and even national attention, from Capital New York to National Review Online to the famed Catholic blogger Father John Zuehlsdorf (blogging about it from Venice).
Most observers have focused on the fact that Holy Innocents — not only the frenetic Garment District’s oldest house of worship, but its oldest structure — is the city’s only church hosting a daily traditional Latin Mass, the Mass that defined Catholic worship for centuries, if not millennia.
Didn’t New Yawk recently (last year or so) tear down a beautiful red brick church .. flying buttresses and all ?
Holy Innocents—home to the most painful pews in the world.
LOL! I was there Sunday and I have to agree. I am petite and even I find the pews awfully close to each other. When I stand with the kneeler down I can’t straighten my legs. So, when I stand, I place the kneeler up.
As the sisters would say, “Offer it up.” Easier said than done.
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