> What a surprise, then, they find the place cold and uninviting.
I see in the newspapers that there has been an enormous fuss in a
neighbouring diocese over the place in which the Blessed Sacrament is
reserved. A church had been damaged by arson. The priest and his
entire congregation wanted the tabernacle to occupy the same place in
the restored church as in the old, i.e. at centre stage. The bishop
wanted it in a side-chapel, the preferred and "correct" option. After
being threatened with disciplinary action, and faced with the bishop's
refusal to consecrate the church with the tabernacle in the sanctuary,
the priest has had to give in. It is rather sad that the wishes of all
the people who actually worship in the church count for so little . . .
I'm not seeking merely to make a contemporary point on a medieval list.
In assessing the taste, style, beauty or otherwise of medieval art and
architecture, on needs always to take into account the felt needs of
those who actually used it and paid for it.
Oriens.
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