I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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Will it take another fire?
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It’s fine for their rites. What have they to do with us.
I’m picturing a wind blown field, along one corner, a small group of birch trees blow gently in the light breeze, you can hear the leaves…a large, flat granite boulder has a white linen across it, the white candles flicker in the breeze…the assembled kneel in the grassy field…as the priest lifts the host…the sun goes behind the clouds, there is reverence on the faces of the assembled…
Given what our leaders allow “artists” to do to our churches & great cathedrals, how can anyone believe that they take their faith seriously.
Well, at least the full Disneyland elements of the project were trashed ; and I see from French reports that the side chapels will be renovated on the basis of their traditional pre-disaster forms, and that anything that survived the fire in those chapels will be restored.
For comparison, similar images for the recent renovation & clean-up of the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela looked similarly worrying — though they did not muck up the Novus Ordo altar there — but inside in its current state it looks MUCH better than the architect mock-up images.
The Catholic world always had classical art, every image like a photograph or a screen shot from a movie. In a word, ORDER! Modern art is disorder, like the Devil himself. People in recent years have shied away from the blobs of paint and eratic lines where the Artist tells you it represents whatever you think it is.
Now it is about Shaker Simplicity…plain,simple,lacking beauty, minimalistic.
God help us all.
About as barren and sterile as the cobbled-together NO rite is, and empty as most parishes are these days. A fitting representation of the state of the mainstream Church. No beauty, brutal architecture shoehorned into traditional buildings, and vast acres of nothingness passing itself off as up-to-date.
The barbarians aren’t at the gate…they’re sitting at the head of the table.
My second thought on first glimpse, after ‘Puke’, was geitost (from which Wikipedia redirects to “Brunost (lit.?'”brown cheese”‘)…) – delicious in its way and place, but why would one imitate it, here, on an improbable scale in an unlikely form?
I suppose a table with Disney Hunchback characters as atlantes and caryatids would be worse…
This is looking west – is there a mock-up of what looking east will be like?
With that floor pattern and sanctuary style, the first thing I thought of is that it looks like a masonic lodge where they do their rituals, etc. !!!
Amen Bryan D. Boyle!
Star Trek. They can’t move on from the obtuse and ugly sixties. No faith, no imagination, no craft. It really is astonishing. And weren’t we assured Notre Dame would be restored — not reimagined?
When you bite into any of their confections you always hit the filling — lies.
As the image scrolled into view Lacy J Dalton started singing “Everybody makes mistakes.” That just about sums up my opinion.
It could be worse.
I have no words…. Jesus help us!
Meanwhile, in the Diocese of Arlington, they’re about to make their Cathedral more beautiful (well, it wasn’t beautiful to start with, but hey), rather than uglier: https://www.catholicherald.com/article/local/parishes/a-cathedral-renovation-to-mark-50-years-as-a-diocese/
Venarator Sti Lot – if you follow the link in Father Z’s post, it goes to Father V’s twitter (a webpage of it – you don’t need a twitter account). Scroll down through his posts and you will find two post on June 23 – one with just that photo and one with three photos (that rendering & two others).
THAT is what they think of the Consecration, the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. They have lost their faith. Their sanctuary signifies what they actually believe…that the Catholic Mass is nothing more than another empty Protestant praise service.
I see old scratch’s influence. Gay architect, per chance?
Charivari Rob,
Thanks! (I am often Twitter shy… but should have heeded the commendation!)
I’ve stopped caring what churches look like. The damage has mostly been done already. All I care about now is the whether the Traditional Mass is celebrated in a building.
I had the great blessing of visiting Notre Dame in 2004 on pilgrimage. I loved every minute in that holy place. And the priest I went to confession to read my soul! That has only happened twice in my life. I don’t know if I will ever visit France again but I would not enter Notre Dame because I would weep.
The Barbarians aren’t just at the gates. Now they’re in the sanctuary.
Obviously, someone wanted to integrate the French Revolution into the sanctuary design.
This is a little article I wrote for Christian Order 6 months ago:
https://gloria.tv/post/yxVjwfbvhLUv29PE4gCiV6Cbt
That checkerboard black and white style is Freemasonic. Hmmmmm…. wonder if they’re trying to tell us something? Something about themselves, about the State, about the hierarchy in France, about Beef Bourguignon…….. what could it be?
An expert did this!
Even worse – if a bishop says Mass there, he’ll only be able to move diagonally.
[Not to imply that bishop’s don’t move “straight”.]
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That does seem a shame from a historic preservation standpoint alone. I can’t imagine that was the aesthetic at any prior time in the building’s storied history.
Re: checkerboard floor tiles — That was the pattern of the choir floor tiles before the fire; they were installed in the early 1700’s.
I don’t know what the medieval pattern of the nave floor tiling was; but at one point in the early 1700’s, the entire nave had a bare floor and all the walls were plastered and whitewashed (with paintings on canvas for decoration). So it could be worse, guys. It could be worse.
Btw, this earlier renovation, in the early 1700’s, was largely financed by one man, a canon of the cathedral named Antoine de la Porte. He gave 10,000 livres a year to the king, as his donation to the project; and there is a nice memorial painting of him saying Mass at the then-still-unbuilt new high altar (in a new fashionable style, replacing an older one). He also shows up in a painting of the Visitation by Jouvenet.
http://rodama1789.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-cathedral-of-notre-dame-in-18th.html
A very big blogpost about this old renovation, with lots of relevant pictures.