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Praxiteles has just been given the attached rough drwaings of St. Joseph’s Church, Liscarroll, Co. Cork.
It is the next victim of the communistical Cloyne HACK.
The first picture shows the general layout at present.
The second one shows what the HACK wants to do to “communize” worship there: demolish the present sanctuary, the altar, the tabernacle and of course the Altar Rail.In their place comes the desolate sanctuary area (with the steps removed -just like WIll Dowsing), a central altar, chairs and the baptismal font right inside the front door (a fire-hazard?).
The original sacristy is to be demolished and replaced by a “L” building to incorporate meeting-rooms, etc (stange that they should need this with the school hall just next door).
The picture of the sanctuary of Christ the Saviour in Moscow shows quite clearly just how much nonsense it is to suggest that the Altar must be “hugged” in order to have “a particiopative and fruitful liturgy”.
The liturgical ideologues cannot explain to us how the Orthodox can have a truly participative liturgy when the altar cannot even be seen and the central doors that you seen in the picture are close and the curtains drawn.
The iconography of the ceiling of the chancel is also interesting: it depicts teh Holy Spirit’s life giving activity on the church below. The figure of the dove is surrounded by the Apostles and the saints in heaven. The sme iconographic scheme is to be seen in the ceiling of Michaelangelo’s dome in St. Peter’s in Rome.
Unfortunately, this transcendent aspectof the liturgy is totally lost in the mundane, banal, mutual-back-scratching-navel-gazing trumpery oficially promoted by the likes of the materialist Cloyne HACK!
Some further likns to the Church of Christ the Saviour in Moscow:
http://churchesaroundtheworld.com/tag/churches/churches-in-russia/moscow/
And a photograph of the interior of the dome.
In contrast, here we have the new terminal at Cork Airport with one of those half-built air bridges!
Just as an example of what can be done in church building and decoration here we have the example of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow:, rebuilt betewwn 1990-2000:
@THE_Chris wrote:
That man pole dancing is a horrifying mental image 😀
Very shortly. though he will be poll-dancing and that will be likely to bring him a nightmare!!
@THE_Chris wrote:
Exactly. So stop saying you know what they’re doing you fools. They’re not going to tell you or us if they’re gonna leave.
An ironic statement from a counsellor who is supporting all this extra housing in Cobh without helping to provide jobs in the town to go with it. And even more ironic when he flat out refused to listen to residents concerns in Ballymore over planned estates. Despite the fact that he is popular with the old people, he is as good a counsellor as a barn door.
And he also did a fair bit of pole-dancing on the Cathedral business but failed to deliver anything of substance and was quite happy to see the destruction of one Cobh’s greatest assets!.
Tommaso Guidi (Masaccio)’s Holy Trinity of 1425-26 in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, showing the Christ figure flanked by Our Lady and St. John:
The Crucifixio with Our Lady and St. John, St. Michael the Archangel and St. Francis from the Cappella Tarlati in Arezzo Cathedral, painted c. 1335 by anonymous Sienese painter known as the Maestro del Vescovado.
An another crucifixion scene from San Domenico in Arezzo, with the Christ figure flanked by Our Lady and St. John, St. Dominic and a bishop..
A Crucifixion scene from San Domenico in Arezzo by the school of Piero della Francesca c. 1450. Here the Christ figure is flanked by St John the Baptist and St. Michael the Archangel with St. Francis at the foot of the Cross.
To return to the subject of the Crucifixion ALtar in the SOuth Transept of Cobh, Cathedral.
It apprears that the iconographic sources for this altar are varied and include several types drawn from several late medieval paintings, including Mattias Grunewald’s Ysenheimer Altar Piece.
While the Christ figure shows signs of influencederiving from the 17 century school of Seville, the overall iconographic scheme does not dervie from that school which generally will protray the Christ figure on its own and without accompanying saints – something of the modernity of 17century Seville. But, theplate shaped halo over Christ’s head is reminiscent of the painting of early 15th. century Florence.
Rather the Christ figure is portrayed with the figures of Our Lady and St John the Evangelist as they would have been depicted on the Rood Screen of any medieval church. They are accompanied by St. Mary Magdalene, identifiable by the jar containing the ointments for the anointing of Christ’s body.
From this morning’s quondam Cork Examiner:
23 April 2007
Flying chance
CORK Airport Authority (CAA), or some entrepreneurs, should take the bull by the horns with regard to Ryanair’s announcement of flights from the EU to the US.
Since it now seems the CAA will be saddled with the costs of the new terminal, the income from these flights to Cork could go a long way towards solvency while also bringing additional tourism dollars to the county.
Or they might even invite Ryanair to put its EU/USA headquarters in or near Cork airport.
Bill Hurley
59 School Street
Hyannis
Massachusetts 02601
USAJust looking through Peter Galloway’s Cathedrals of Ireland I could not help but notice the comments of this Church of England priest on the gutting that took place in Monaghan Cathedral:
“There are two problems with this otherwise interesting arrangement: firstly, there is the common though not universal feature of post-Vatican II reorderings, namely a deliberate attempt to make a total break with the architectural style of the host building; secondly, the arrangements at Monaghan convey the an impression of total emptinss. The new arrangement probably works very well indeed during the celebration of mass, at least when the throne and bencehs are occupied by the bishop and concelebrants. When mass is not being celebrated by a large number of priests and the cathedral is empty, then this expanse of plain granite and marble seems remorselessly to declare and to emphasize the emptiness. Apart fom the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, now out of immediate sight in a side chapel, there is nothing at the east end to attract and hold the attention of thosewho come individually for quiet prayer and meditation. In a great Gothic church of this kind, the eye is naturally drawn towards the east, to the presence of the Blessed Sacrament enthroned on the altar, visible from every seat in the neave. Now the eye is allowed to rest on a set of empty seats which, by virtue of their unoccupied state,loudly proclaim not a presence but an absence”.
And again:
“Three vividly coloured tapesteries representing Baptism, St. Macartan, and the Eucharist (in the baptistery, sancturay and Chapel ofthe Blessed Sacrament, all designed by Francis Biggs) do little to make the scene less cheerless; they only compete for attention with the tall east windows”.
The High Altar here is typically McCarthy and looks very like the one he designed for Sts Peter and Paul in Kilmallock, Co. Limerick.
If anybody wants to send in objections to Cork County Council, Praxiteles is told that the planning application file number is 076781 and the RPS number for Cork County is 00030.
The application was received on 3 April 2007 so you have 5 weeks from that day to get your objections in and they should reach the planning department of Cork County Council on or befoire 7 May 2007.
If anyone needs help in making a submission on this one, Praxiteles will be glad to oblige.
