Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

@Gregorius III wrote:

You say the veils are to demonstrate the “separation of the repentant sinner from the Church.” Why is it to show the separation of “repentant sinners” and not just “all sinners”? Why would they emphasize the separation of those who have repented? Or, is it to show that even our repentance is fruitless without the sacrifice of Christ?

Also, the below post of the Lenten Veil in Carinthia allows the altar (and thus the whole Sacrifice of the Mass) to be seen only blocking the “rood” (or cross.) Yet, the Lenten Veil hanging in the Gurk Cathedral seems to block the whole sanctuary. Is this because it is not hanging as it once would have?

All sinners are separated from the Church. Here the Leten Veils attempt to exhort repentance which leaves a group of sinners with the possibility of extracating themselves from the mortal peril in which their sould are by returning to the community of thef aithful. Needless to say, that repentance is assisted thorugh the operation of grace and the forgivemness of sin through sacramental grace poured out by Christ for anyone who wants to receive it.

I cannot say whether the actual method of hanging the veil in Gurk is original or not.