tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post6753847632513449699..comments2024-03-12T04:14:16.271-05:00Comments on The Rad Trad: McChurches?The Rad Tradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00899289024837953345noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-79478416246537072752017-09-05T04:12:00.682-05:002017-09-05T04:12:00.682-05:00Er, no, we don't live in Rome, we don't ne...Er, no, we don't live in Rome, we don't need baptisteries. Just gothic fonts with tower covers.Albrecht von Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12996637489269911349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-50833809923005106382017-09-05T04:10:12.449-05:002017-09-05T04:10:12.449-05:00Er, no, we don't live in Rome, we don't ne...Er, no, we don't live in Rome, we don't need baptisteries. Just gothic fonts with tower covers.Albrecht von Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12996637489269911349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-77556123571335204982017-07-10T15:40:46.750-05:002017-07-10T15:40:46.750-05:00Give me a "McChurch" over any Novus Ordo...Give me a "McChurch" over any Novus Ordo office space any day of the week.<br />The Novus Ordo parish I grew up with had all the charisma and decor of a corporate office cubicle.Catholic Statehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09107971443683193051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-66820055402301783512017-07-01T22:30:27.107-05:002017-07-01T22:30:27.107-05:00Rootless churches for a rootless people.
Well - p...Rootless churches for a rootless people.<br /><br />Well - perhaps that is not entirely fair. But I do think that the phenomenon we're talking about is in no small part a product of those circumstances - in America, and to some degree in the settler dominions. Immigration of Catholic peoples from Europe on a vast scale required rapid construction of infrastructure. They would typically start with the school, and then move on to the church. It had to be built quickly. It was a booming business for architects, even mediocre ones. Cookie cutter models became almost inevitable.<br /><br />Of course there are noteworthy exceptions, often hidden in unexpected places. The recent series by you on the painted churches of central Texas seems a case in point. Athelstanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07346012062816580296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-3767497956027852412017-06-29T15:57:21.151-05:002017-06-29T15:57:21.151-05:00This is the church where I went to, back in Oxnard...This is the church where I went to, back in Oxnard, CA, built in 1904: https://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/qxljTU1vgsucebXmIWRUGg/o.jpg<br /><br />Is it an early example of "McChurch" or a partial one? It certainly has the obligatory Mary and Joseph side altars and kitsch statues. AND by the big 6, do you mean Jesus on the cross with Mary and John, Sts. Peter and Paul, and the patron of the church?Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08395971347119256329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-90886488540905005882017-06-29T15:06:17.023-05:002017-06-29T15:06:17.023-05:00ABS is all for your suggestions.
Outside of the c...ABS is all for your suggestions.<br /><br />Outside of the colorful Icon rich sanctuary of the local Melkite Church, most gathering spaces around here come with huge screens on either side of the common kitchen (well, that is what it is for the presider is the modern Maitre d' at this communal meal) where the words of some crummy song can be flashed upon it.<br /><br />ABS is old enough to remember the "follow the bouncing ball" cartoons and he thinks that ought be added for our entertainment in these Shadow Shacks (Shadows, like the Church at this point, have no substance).<br /><br />And, yet, even with wholly water founts inside Shadow Shacks with gigantic screens amidst a retarded Liturgy - Lil' Licit Liturgy is intentionally retarded - Jesus Christ still comes to we wee Christian Catholics and, thus, ABS goes to these Shacks dailyMick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.com