ALERT: There’s an important poll in this post.
Breakfast in Brooklyn.
I have to have a poll about something relative to BAGELS. See below.
I saw this at Ann Barnhardt’s place and it was too good not to share.
I think that can count for “In churchy news… ” It seems to me an allegory for the agenda of “walking together about walking togetherity”.
Speaking of which, check out what Raymond de Souza wrote at First Things about “The Infernal Synod”. Sample:
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Originally ridiculed by many as a “meeting about meetings,” it never managed to demonstrate that it wasn’t. Way back in November 2021, still flush with excitement over the synodal process—with meetings at the parish, diocesan, national, continental, and planetary level still beckoning enticingly—Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio in the United States, said that if synodality was a “meeting about meetings,” it would be a “purgatory.” Indeed, the very “idea of having a meeting about meetings” would mean that “we would certainly be in one of the lower rings of hell in Dante’s Inferno!”
The Inferno is back in session this week. The late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus liked to joke that the first words heard upon entering hell would be, “Break down into small groups, discuss, and then report back to the plenary.”
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Today my priest friend and I went to see a newly un-wreckovated church where the altar was consecrated yesterday. It is Notre Dame in New Hyde Park, NY. (TWELVE hours of confessions every week!) The pastor there showed us around. He did a fantastic job of the renovation. The church had been deeply and stupidly uglified in 2000! I thought all that nonsense was over by then. But no! There are 70’s ideologues around and they can still hurt us.
What it was before this un-wreckovation.
And now… this photo is big. Right click and open separately to get a sense of the sanctuary after un-wreckovation on part with the above.
The windows of the church are the mysteries of the Rosary, those of the Sorrowful Mysteries in the sanctuary with the Cross as the altar crucifix. It was designed this way when built in the 1950’s.
New statues from Italy.
New marble work and Communion rail.
It can be done.
In chessy news…. HERE
3:16 isn’t just in John.
Another thing… talking with my priest friend from Brooklyn, he insists that bagels must be large, light and fluffy, a bit crisp on the outside. On the other hand, when I have been in other places in NYC, the bagels – good bagels – were a bit lower and chewier.
These are the wonderful, light fluffies we had this morning. Butter knife for scale.
I ask you…
Anyone can vote, but you must be registered and approved to post a comment.
Yeah, a lot of food was had. It was all terrific.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
