Saturday, September 28, 2002
Dale: Perhaps the most depressing story I've read in a while--a new church being built in Cincinnati.
The problem is not that it's ugly. Far from it--the sketch indicates it will be a beauty. And, for once, the people in charge seem to get it--an emphasis on the "vertical" aspect of worship, as opposed to the "celebration of us" garbage that's on the ascendant today. Tradition, beauty, reverence--the whole package. None of the sterile Voskoid obliteration of the past here. No barren "worship spaces" that Baptists find spartan. None of the dread "spirit of Vatican II" invocations that inevitably lead to a belief that the Church was founded in 1965. No sir.
Of course not--they're sedevacantists.
Help me with this one: why is it that the sedevacantists get "sermons in stone" and Catholics get "Cromwell in concrete"?
The problem is not that it's ugly. Far from it--the sketch indicates it will be a beauty. And, for once, the people in charge seem to get it--an emphasis on the "vertical" aspect of worship, as opposed to the "celebration of us" garbage that's on the ascendant today. Tradition, beauty, reverence--the whole package. None of the sterile Voskoid obliteration of the past here. No barren "worship spaces" that Baptists find spartan. None of the dread "spirit of Vatican II" invocations that inevitably lead to a belief that the Church was founded in 1965. No sir.
Of course not--they're sedevacantists.
Help me with this one: why is it that the sedevacantists get "sermons in stone" and Catholics get "Cromwell in concrete"?
