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- February 6, 2007 at 12:48 am in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769526
Praxiteles
ParticipantThe Golden Altar of the church of Stadil, Jutland in Denmark, c. 1200-1225
February 6, 2007 at 12:38 am in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769525Praxiteles
ParticipantThe Golden Altar of the of the church at Olst, Jutland in Denmark, c. 1200
February 5, 2007 at 6:53 pm in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769524Praxiteles
ParticipantThe Golden Altar of St. Ambrose in the Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan c. 840
February 5, 2007 at 6:37 pm in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769523Praxiteles
ParticipantThe Golden Altar of the Chapel Palatine in Aachen
February 5, 2007 at 1:35 pm in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769522Praxiteles
ParticipantCan anyone out there supply information about Alexander James Beresford Hope who was the English correspondent of Didron’s Annales Arch
February 4, 2007 at 11:34 pm in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769520Praxiteles
ParticipantGianlorenzo wrote:For goodness sake Prax. when are you going to realise that most of us do NOT understand German.:confused:
May we please have a summary of what all this is about? ]No need to screech. Here are the main points:
1. The parish of St Rochus resumed using the High Altar for Mass beginning on the First SUnday of Advent 2006.
2. This gave rise to “concerns”. The Vicars of the various deaneries in the Archdiocese of Vienna wrote to the Archbishop looking for “clarification”. The letter just happened to be leaked to the press.
3. When raised during an interview with Cardinal Shoenborn, Archbishop of Vienna, the Cardinal stated the following points:
a. It is what happens on the altar that is decisive and not the direction in which the priest faces when saying Mass;
b. both directions (facing the people and facing the East – “versus populum” and “ad Orientem versus”) are authorized by ecclesiastical law and should not be “ideologised”;
c. The Second Vatican Council says absolutely nothing about the direction in which the priest saying Mass should face;
d. The oldest ecclesiastical practice has been to say Mass facing East, towards the rising Sun which symbolizes the Risen Lord in his second coming. For that reason, one of the oldest principles of ecclesiastical archictecture has been to orient churches towards the East.
I hope the monoglots in Carrigtwohill are taking careful note of all of this!! Adveniet dies!!
February 4, 2007 at 9:33 pm in reply to: Architecture of the South-East- Waterford, Wexford, Clonmel #762780Praxiteles
Participant@ake wrote:
Some interior shots of the RC cathedral in Waterford, Just restored/refurbished.You can still smell the paint. It’s not actually as dark as this, it’s a new camera.
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The choir stalls,as well as I could photograph them with bad light and no tripod:(
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[ATTACH]3915[/ATTACH]I am also glad to see that Ake was able to furnish a picture of the magnificent choir stalls in Waterford Cathedral. As you will notice, these were never made to be planked against a wall: they ware intended to serve as a screen. they did so until quite recently whjen some enlightened person moved them from their original position and planked them against the wall.
February 4, 2007 at 9:22 pm in reply to: Architecture of the South-East- Waterford, Wexford, Clonmel #762779Praxiteles
Participant@ake wrote:
Here’s a question for anybody in the know. In the RC Cathedral in Waterford is this painting, beside this sign
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[ATTACH]3918[/ATTACH]It is on the wall on the north aisle, in a badly lit position, with apparently no protection whatsoever. Is this actually an autograph Murillo?! I’m not very knowledgeable about paintings, but I find it hard to believe such a valuable piece would be hung here, in such a way. Maybe if it was in the high altar. Or is it by a namesake of of the great Spanish painter? I’m quite sure it’s not a print. It was behind a glassed frame, and looked like canvas as far I can tell. It’s certainly brilliant anyway.
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I am inclined to doubt that B.E. Murillo is the painter of this picture. I have looked at a catalogue of his works and find no reference to it. Also, the heart suggests a connection with devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus which really only got underway as a popular exercise from the early 18th century – under the impulse of Queen Mary, Consort of James II. At a guess, I am inclined to loacte this picture among the 18th. century Italian masters – possibly Mengs or more likely Trevisani.
Tobias Kirby, born 1 January 1803 at Tallow, Co. Waterford, vice rector and rector of the Irish College, Rome, and Titular Bishop of Letaea (1881) and subsequently titular Archbishop of Epheseus (1886-1895), had an interesting collections of Italian masters with several fine pictures by Trevisani, an interesting picture that could well be by Reni, and several Madonnas by 18th.century Italian painters of the Roman/Bolognese school. He left his collection to the Irish College in Rome after his death on 20 January 1895. The collection was plundered by a series of unenlightened avaritious rectors of the same college. The vestiges of the collection can be seen in the public rooms of the Irish College, Rome. Kirby was an indefatigable letter writer and his correspondence with Cardinal Cullen of Dublin is in the archive of Dublin Diocese while Cullen’s correspondence (and that of many others in Ireland) is in the archive of the Irish Colege in Rome. This correspondence often contains material about the purchase of artistic fittings for churches in Ireland – as demonstrated by the purchase of two altars for Mitchelstown, Co. Cork that were subsequently shipped through Civitavecchia to Cork and eventually erected in the parish church and in the Presentation Convent. Both, unfortunately have disappeared and there is the distinct possibility that the over educated ladies of the Presentation sold the altar that was in their Mitchelstown convent!!.
February 4, 2007 at 8:32 pm in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769518Praxiteles
ParticipantHere is the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58086761@N00/
The state of Giacomo della Porta’s altar is worse than I imagined. I cannot imagine that the present incumbent in Cashel was in his right senses when he agreed to this vandalism – it is just incredible that this should happen to one of the few important renaissance pieces in Ireland. Can anyone imagine anyone splitting the Pietà ?
February 4, 2007 at 2:15 pm in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769516Praxiteles
Participant@ake wrote:
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It occured to me that changing the colour scheme in a church is no different from changing the colour scheme in a painting. Imagine taking a Poussin, and changing all the colours of the garments, the foliage etc to your liking, leaving the actual shapes intact, or imagine taking say, something like the Wilton diptych and replacing the rich decorative patterns on the clothes with a monochrome blue or red.Spot on Ake!
How did the iconaclast Flannery miss the ceiling in St. Saviour’s?
February 4, 2007 at 2:43 am in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769512Praxiteles
ParticipantAke!
Here is an example of the kind of paint work you should expect to find in a neo-gothic church: E.W. Pugin’s St. Mary’s in Barrow in Furness
February 3, 2007 at 2:34 pm in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769511Praxiteles
Participant@THE_Chris wrote:
Hmm. Looks pretty nice. Surprised they demolished it, could have put the cathedral in a slightly different place and kept that.
Edit: Whats the second church-like structure to the right?? Kil-somethingorother?? Cant remember the name.
Re St. Mary’s: Lewis Topographical Dictionary has the following:
“The parish church of the union of Clonmell and Templerobin is on an elevated site in the centre of the town: it is a large and elegant edifice, in the early English style of architecture, with stained glass windows, and was built in 1810, by aid of a loan of £2000 from the late Board of First Fruits. Near it is a R. C. chapel, which was enlarged in 1835”.
February 3, 2007 at 1:46 am in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769508Praxiteles
ParticipantAke!
Post them here …quam primum!!
February 3, 2007 at 1:22 am in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769506Praxiteles
ParticipantSt. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork
And here we have a little trouvail: what must be one of the earliest photographs of the Cobh Cathedral (right of center). It must date from c. 1870/72 and shows the walls just above foundation level. The old parish church was demolished in February 1868 and the first sod turned on 25 April 1868. The foundation stone was laid on 25 July 1868 and the first stone of the superstructure was laid on 30 September 1868. The building of the superstructure began in April 1869. The ship in the foreground is HMS Revenge. This 91 gun secondrate ship was built in Pembroke Dock in 1859 and saw service in the Mediterranean. From August 1872 che was stationed at Queenstown as Base Ship. Recommissioned on 1 July 1876 she became Flagship in Queenstown. She was re-named Empress in 1890 and commissioned as a training ship which role she fulfilled until 1923. The photograph may have have been taken in 1872.
February 3, 2007 at 12:22 am in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769505Praxiteles
ParticipantHere are both photographs taken from the entrance channel to Cobh at a distance of approximately 100 years. The first was taken c. 1909, the other in 2006. Sadly, the greatest loss to the skyline is St. Mary’s church (a nice visual counterpoint) to right of the Cathedral and the most regrettable adition is the ET water tower.
February 2, 2007 at 2:23 pm in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769504Praxiteles
ParticipantFinally, an online access to about half of A. N. Didron’s Annales Arch
February 2, 2007 at 2:01 am in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769502Praxiteles
ParticipantSt. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork
Another view of the Cathedral before its completion and taken c. 1909.
February 1, 2007 at 11:14 pm in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769501Praxiteles
ParticipantHere are some interesting comments on the use of the High Altar made by Cardinal Schoenborn of Vienna in the wake of a recent desision by the parish of St Rochus to resume using the High Altar of the parish church from the beginning of Advent 2006:
27. Januar 2007, 17:41
‘Wir sind Kirche’ fürchtet sich vor ‘lateinischen Messen’‘Wir sind Kirche’ fürchtet sich vor ‘lateinischen Messen’
Die umstrittene Gruppierung fordert Katholiken auf, nicht an „lateinischen Messen“ teilzunehmen und kritisiert Kardinal Schönborn, weil er in einer Pfarre die Erlaubnis gab, den Hochaltar wieder als Zelebrationsalter zu verwenden – Antwort von Schönborn
Wien (http://www.kath.net)
In Vorfeld des von Papst Benedikt geplanten Motu proprio zur erweiterten Freigabe des „Alten Ritus“ steigt in manchen Kreisen die Nervosität. In Österreich hat sich jetzt die Gruppe „Wir sind Kirche“ gegen eine “Gleichstellung von Eucharistiefeiern am Hochaltar und am Volksalter” gewandt und Katholiken aufgefordert, lateinische Messen nicht zu besuchen wie der „Standard“ berichtet. Die kirchlich nicht anerkannte Gruppe ortet darin “eine Verkürzung des Glaubens und eine einseitige Bevorzugung rückschrittlicher Tendenzen“. Der konkrete Hintergrund für die innerösterreichische Debatte ist die Wiener Pfarre St. Rochus, die mit Genehmigung von Kardinal Christoph Schönborn seit vergangenem 1. Adventsonntag den Hochaltar wieder als Zelebrationsalter verwendet. Für „Wir sind Kirche“ ist das „ein Schritt hinter das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil der 60er-Jahre“. Die Wiener Pfarre St. Rochus gehört seit Jahren zu den Pfarren mit einem sehr hohen Messbesucheranteil. Alleine am Sonntag gibt es vier heilige Messen, die immer sehr gut besucht sind.Der Wiener Kardinal Schönborn hat bereits in der Weihnachtsausgabe von Thema Kirche, dem Mitarbeitermagazin der Erzdiözese Wien, zu den Fragen Stellung genommen. KATH.NET dokumentiert die Stellungnahme im Wortlaut:
Um die Frage„Volksaltar†oder „Hochaltar” ist ein Streit ent*brannt. In einer Wiener Pfarre wurde beschlossen, wieder am barocken Hochaltar zu zele*brieren. Ein beweglicher Volks*altar sollte nur für die Famili*enmessen aufgestellt werden. Die Wiener Dechanten haben eine etwas besorgte Anfrage an mich gerichtet. Jemand hat diese Anfrage, die im Protokoll der Dechantenkonferenz stand, der Presse zugespielt (über die APA). So kam es zur medialen Aufregung, bis hin zu der köstlichen Meldung, von jetzt an werde der Pfarrer in dieser Kirche gegen die Wand predigen! Die von den Dechanten erbete*ne Stellungnahme bin ich ger*ne zu geben bereit, auch hier im größeren Kreis derer, die Thema Kirche beziehen. Die erste und wichtigste Fest*stellung: Entscheidend ist nicht, in welcher Richtung der Zelebrant am Altar steht, son*dern das, was auf dem Altar geschieht. Auf das„Geheimnis des Glaubens†sollen wir uns ausrichten, auf Christus, der in unserer Mitte ist, dessen Hin*gabe an den Vater für uns und für alle Menschen wir in der Eucharistie feiern. Seinen Tod und Seine Auferstehung ver*künden wir, da sie unter uns gegenwärtig werden. Das ist Mitte und Quelle und Höhe*punkt des christlichen Lebens, wie das Konzil mehrmals sagt. Daher die Frage anlässlich die*ses „Altarstreites”: Ist uns das genügend bewusst?
Zweite Feststellung: Beide Zelebrationsrichtungen sind berechtigt, und daher soll keine der beiden verdächtigt oder „ideologisiert” werden. Zelebriert wird weder „zum Volk” noch „zur Wand”, sondern zu Gott durch Jesus Christus im Heiligen Geist. Die Zelebration „zum Volk” gewendet hat den Sinn, dass wir uns alle, Priester und Gläubige, um Christus versammeln, den der Altar symbolisiert und dessen Leib und Blut auf dem Altar gegen*wärtig werden. Die Zelebration „Rücken zum Volk” ist keine Abwendung von den Gläubigen, sondern die gemeinsame Gebetsrichtung, Ausdruck des Weges, auf dem wir alle ge*meinsam zu Gott hin pilgern als Sein wanderndes Volk.
Dritte Feststellung: Das II. Vati*canum hat überhaupt nichts über die Zelebrationsrichtung gesagt. Erst 1969 heißt es in der Allgemeinen Einführung ins Messbuch (Nr. 262): „Der Hauptaltar soll von der Wand getrennt gebaut werden, so dass er leicht umschritten wer*den kann und auf ihm die Ze*lebration versus populum (zum Volk hin) ausgeführt werden kann … ” In der Neu*auflage von 2002 ist hinzuge*fügt: „Dies sollte der Fall sein,wo immer es möglich ist”. Die römische Kongregation hat diesen Zusatz freilich als Emp*fehlung, nicht als Verpflich*tung erklärt.
Vierte Feststellung: Die älteste christliche Gebetsrichtung ist die Richtung Osten. Die Juden beten nach Jerusalem gewandt, die Muslime Richtung Mekka, die Christen der aufgehenden Sonne zu, die Christus, den Auferstandenen, symbolisiert. Daher die jeweilige Baurich*tung der Synagogen, der Mo*scheen, der Kirchen. Die „Orientierung†der Kirchen, d. h. ihre „Ostung”, ist eines der „Ur*gesetze†des Kirchenbaues. St. Peter in Rom ist aus prakti*schen Gründen „gewestet”, da*her zelebriert der Papst gegen die Türen, die im Osten liegen, gewandt, und somit zum Volk. Es tut gut, daran zu erinnern, was „Orientierung†heißt.
Zuletzt ein persönliches Wort: Ich selber liebe beide Formen der Zelebrationsrichtung. Beide sind für mich voll tiefer Bedeutung. Beide helfen mir, Christus zu begegnen – und das ist ja der Sinn der Liturgie.
February 1, 2007 at 7:28 pm in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769499Praxiteles
ParticipantSt. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork
Some further gargoyles
February 1, 2007 at 6:59 pm in reply to: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches #769498Praxiteles
Participantst. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork
Some of the Cathedral gargoyles:
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