Posted on 01/31/2015 2:22:51 PM PST by NYer
Ping!
I hope not to trivialize this subject. Bit this reminds me s bit of how the old baseball parks were replaced in the 60s and 70s by circular stadiums. But then in recent years, almost all new baseball stadiums are built to resemble the old ballparks of the past.
The more things change, the more they stay the same??? There is nothing new under the sun????
I don’t think that’s trivialization. Obviously, some traditionalists are repairing the destruction of the 60s in other venues as well.
Excellent observation. Jealousy is the source of it; such as Satan's jealousy of God.
Progressive ideologies can always be spotted because their devotees destroy the past rather than renew it. By definition, revolutionaries revolve, they do not evolve. To create their brave new world they must destroy the old one. Their new age is fueled by rage and the smiling revolutionaries cannot create anything without destroying everything.
The lessons are clear: Despite its calm demeanor and gentle approach, progressivism is founded on rage. The status quo is the culprit and the established order must be overthrown. The imaginative conservative, on the other hand, seeks to correct what is wrong not by revolution, but renewal. What is beautiful, good, and true from the past is restored to its original reason so that it might do good service in the present and into the future.
That is good. Thanks for pointing it out.
Comparing churches built on either side of 1964, an archaeologist a thousand years from now would have to conclude that fundamental beliefs had changed.
My church, built in the early 60’s, fits this mold.
https://www.stjamesapostle.org/images/StJamesEagle4-19-2014.jpg
looked at the pic, I’ll bet everyone talks in there before mass.
are those colored shards of glass or the real stained glass windows?
Another fine example of unity in the Roman Catholic church.
Colored thick shards with “chipped” edges in what is supposed to look like lead frames. Very “cold” looking.
Inside is all modernistic woodwork in minimalist fashion.
If you look at the roof line, it is supposed to look like a “seashell” next to the lake.
We have a much more traditional church on the other end of town that is a thing of beauty with original stained glass windows and traditional woodwork and pews. Unfortunately its quite small. It’s used for a few masses and usually weddings because of its size and quaintness. Our Lady of the Lake.
The larger church, St. James the Apostle is next to the Catholic grade school and was built to handle the huge increase in population that came in the 50’s and 60’s.
They did. And you don’t have to wait a thousand years to conclude that fact.
All the baseball stadiums built in the last 20 years resemble "old ballparks of the past" because they're ballparks, not multi-use stadiums.
Comparing churches built on either side of 1964, an archaeologist a thousand years from now would conclude that one religious organization ceased to exist and was replaced by another one.
What I find interesting is that this phenomenon of silly modern churches seems to be almost exclusively a North American issue. Maybe I'm just not exposed to stories like this from other places. But everything I've read and heard about Europe suggests that the Catholic faith went right from "traditional" to non-existent without going through this intermediate fixation on a "New Age" type of worship.
Maybe that's more an indication of our monetary wealth and lack of intelligence here than anything else. Maybe we're the only people on the planet who would waste our money building idiotic churches, and then waste our time showing up on Sundays to take part in some kind of idiotic rituals inside them.
Nothing like quoting the French ... plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose and the Book of Ecclesiastes in the same sentence : -)
Get a life
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwaukee WI
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