The Old Altar: “God forgive me, but I hope the ones responsible for that altar are still in purgatory.”
The “new” Altar – from a destroyed church.
PHOTOS: ANDREW THEODORAKIS/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
The restoration of a Brooklyn church….
And an Article in the New York Daily News about it.
We rejoice at the restoration of a Brooklyn church and at the rediscovery of the sense of the sacred and of the artistic heritage of Catholic Tradition underlying it.
“But when I heard how many people had strayed from Holy Name because of the modern altar, I got on board. It would be part of the evangelization of Windsor Terrace.” (The pastor of Holy Name parish)
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/new-altar-brooklyn-church-article-1.1581425#ixzz2qoVn9G7Y
Yet me must not forget that this success comes at a bitter cost: that altar came from a historic Brooklyn church recently destroyed. And sold to developers for a great sum.
(Thanks to Prof. Walter Petrovitz)
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Thanks be to God! That is the most uplifting thing I have heard today!
What a wonderful project!
Not out of spirit of vindictiveness, for we hope the pastor and architect who did that dreadful renovation in the 1980’s made it to Purgatory, but just for historical purposes, it would be helpful to know their names and speculate how they justified that old horror. In the unlikely event that they are still alive, they might be interviewed.
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