The Spirit of Vatican II, Shorter Version
01/07/2012
Nobody has to do anything they don't want to anymore.
—my wife, at the breakfast table this morning
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I'm trying to imagine the rest of this conversation.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 01/07/2012 at 12:54 PM
It was about the practice of putting a relic in the altar of a new church, which apparently has gone out of style since VII. She was telling me about finding several relics just lying around in a pile of stuff in her archive.
Posted by: Mac | 01/07/2012 at 03:08 PM
When I worked at the Newman Center at U. of Memphis, the priest brought one of those altar stones with a relic for our altar. He said there was a whole stack of them at the rectory where he lived that had been taken from altars at renovated Dominican churches.
AMDG
Posted by: Janet | 01/07/2012 at 09:21 PM
Sad. Or rather scandalous.
Posted by: Mac | 01/08/2012 at 01:22 PM
Things like this just leave me speechless.
Posted by: Paul | 01/08/2012 at 03:15 PM
I mean, could they not at least have dispersed the relics and burnt the antiquities?
Posted by: Paul | 01/08/2012 at 03:16 PM
"...and in 1971..." No explanation at all of why it was done, but the year says it all.
Posted by: Mac | 01/08/2012 at 09:19 PM
I mean, could they not at least have dispersed the relics and burnt the antiquities?
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Posted by: Louise | 01/10/2012 at 06:09 PM