Mass in the round (Renovation manipulation continues under Fr. Vosko's lead )

Post Star ^ | June 11, 2007 | MADELINE FARBMAN

[Antoninus]

But you do realize that a priest has no power without a bishop...what does his bishop say? Who is his bishop, and why is no one talking to him?

Bishop Hubbard is one of the worst of the AmChurch bishops. He's a diocese destroyer and I think he was one of Jadot's crop from the late '70s that was put in at an early age. He has done immeasurable damage to his diocese, but I guess we should count our blessings that he wasn't moved around or made a cardinal at any point.

That said, I feel truly sorry for the remaining Catholics in Albany. Were I in his diocese, I'd probably be a Byzantine rite Catholic or a Maronite.

If you want to get some idea of what a sordid mess the Albany diocese is, do the following search:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=minkler+hubbard+albany+suicide

[WriteOn]

barf

[kosta50]

He seems to be trying to imitate St. Peter’s with the oval altera podium aurrounded by pews. But lokk what that is doing to the churches! Shocking.

[kosta50]

Wow, that is some predicament. The Catholic Church in the West should have listened to St. Cyprian when he argued for lay removal of bishops, something that has been practised in the East for the lonest time.

[Antoninus]

Wow, that is some predicament. The Catholic Church in the West should have listened to St. Cyprian when he argued for lay removal of bishops, something that has been practised in the East for the lonest time.

Uh, not without the occasional riots...or worse. In the case of Hubbard, I think I'd be up for a good riot to get him out of there, frankly.

[vox_freedom]

Ugly.
I've played basketball in more architecturally pleasing gyms.

And the sound of a piano, is so un-Mass like...
Gregorian Chant and, separately, some organ music is all that is needed.

[cothrige]

"You're looking at each other, you know, instead of having everybody look at a back."

It strikes me as very ironic that while it is true that in this situation a person is looking at the faces of many people, at least half of the congregation is not looking at the face of the priest. Does this mean that those people supporting this nonsense would be okay with Mass celebrated in the way it was prior to the Council, with everyone facing the same direction as the priest? Something tells me not.

[Tax-chick]

I like piano.

[Tax-chick]

Maybe the priest revolves slowly, counterclockwise, about the altar as the Mass progresses.

This would cause my sons to shout, “He’s rotating! Father is rotating! He’s a planet!” And then they would Zot him with their beeber-like devices.

[trisham]

LOL! I need to get one of those beeber-like devices.

[Tax-chick]

TV remote, cell phone, pocket calculator ... anything can be a beeber-like device in the hands of a clever child.

Pat can Zot Father and communicate with his mother ship in orbit. Fortunately, Father is *very* hard of hearing. James discovered the amplifier control board during Mass one day, and bellowed, “James wants that really big Sound Beeber! James WANTS IT!”

[vox_freedom]

I like piano.

I like sushi, but don't have it for breakfast.

[VeritatisSplendor]

After reading the article you posted, I think our parish church (newly built) was designed by Vosko or one of his ilk. The advertising outreach they do is “let us hear your story.” I went back for the first time in six years or so on Ash Wednesday and was reminded why we left.

We go to a traditional church with traditional architecture - may we never be assigned a priest who loathes tradition.

Mrs VS

[Tax-chick]

That’s one way of looking at it.

I like piano for Mass.

[Jaded]

Set you phasers on stune?

[Tax-chick]

You can’t stune a deaf Irish priest. If it were possible, Pat and James would have done it!

[baa39]

and so the slippery slope away from Ad Orientem continues...I imagine the next step will be to remove the altar entirely, then the tabernacle...

[nanetteclaret]

German Star Trek Church:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1847220/posts