tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post2410643956487489030..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: The predella and the voidFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-47250109852753406782009-10-15T13:40:25.803+01:002009-10-15T13:40:25.803+01:00The votes seem to be stacking up in favour of rest...The votes seem to be stacking up in favour of restoration to the original layout. I would support that. <br /><br />I understand the spirit of compromise, but how well will it work? It seems to me that there is not room to have a free standing altar and three steps as well.Et Expectohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04273064434098923960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-18489192479144226732009-10-15T11:01:00.039+01:002009-10-15T11:01:00.039+01:00Father, I have followed your blog and your church ...Father, I have followed your blog and your church restoration project for a while. <br /><br />Why not indeed restore your altar to the way it was originally built in the 19th century, and have a temporary free-standing altar (stone mensa and wooden base), which can be removed in a few years when no one would say anything?<br /><br />I would love to see your lovely Victorian church with its high altar.<br /><br />Respectfully,<br /><br />Fr. AnthonyFr Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15521671841072661886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-39174898437089480412009-10-15T10:28:30.681+01:002009-10-15T10:28:30.681+01:00I think we should applaud Father for his careful a...I think we should applaud Father for his careful and measured restoration which will accommodate both forms of the Roman Rite and be faithful both to the GIRM and to the architect's original scheme. In the present climate while there remains a chance (however remote) that a priest's successor might be an iconoclast there is always the risk with a full return to the old scheme of this restoration being itself undone in the future. The scheme as proposed however would make it very difficult for any future incumbent to complain about even if his name were Fr.Bugnini. I only wish that art and architecture committees everywhere would now insist that any proposed "re-ordering" should be suitable for both forms of the Rite and refuse designs with a Protestant or Masonic style which have so disfigured so many of our churches over the past 20 years.Sussex Catholicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-31012454461727271592009-10-15T09:45:48.972+01:002009-10-15T09:45:48.972+01:00Michael, with the temporary ad orientem arrangemen...Michael, with the temporary ad orientem arrangement, there will probably be a few complaints but after a couple of weeks it will be forgotten.<br /><br />Brighton and Hove Council's Conservation Officer, who is very keen on authentic historical restoration, can no doubt be brought in now that the work is in progress, to give his advice, so can be blamed later on if anyone makes an issue out of it. By then it will be too late and too expensive to do anything about it.Physiocrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13682019625346594568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-22721526310968885282009-10-15T00:44:33.677+01:002009-10-15T00:44:33.677+01:00Father, would your congregation be very disturbed ...Father, would your congregation be very disturbed if you simply restored the High Altar to original condition? Surely it is not so many years away until the absence of versus populum Masses isn't even thought twice about?The Saint Bede Studiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02694483852852112838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-88288430173543336472009-10-14T21:17:41.536+01:002009-10-14T21:17:41.536+01:00I have never sung the Salve fac for her.I have never sung the Salve fac for her.Fr Ray Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-64197917328121115672009-10-14T20:44:26.961+01:002009-10-14T20:44:26.961+01:00SAve one or two of those light fixtures for histor...SAve one or two of those light fixtures for historical posterity and get rid of the broken junk! I marvel at how bone idle and flat out LAZY they were when they left all this stuff!gemoftheoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-52143394366118459672009-10-14T20:35:02.493+01:002009-10-14T20:35:02.493+01:00Curious more than fascinatinating.Curious more than fascinatinating.Fr Ray Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-55135470248730171722009-10-14T19:13:50.772+01:002009-10-14T19:13:50.772+01:00Fascinating!Fascinating!Anagnostishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03706938507885553293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-70018864747780887212009-10-14T17:56:02.899+01:002009-10-14T17:56:02.899+01:00Do any of the old photographs and drawings show wh...Do any of the old photographs and drawings show what the original light fittings were like?<br /><br />Something of the kind might work well with the new ultra low-energy ultra long-life LED bulbs.<br /><br />But Dutch style candelabra style fittings usually look right in this kind of context.Physiocrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13682019625346594568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-78839594815325979652009-10-14T17:53:16.501+01:002009-10-14T17:53:16.501+01:00Please put it back as it was and leave it at that ...Please put it back as it was and leave it at that (though not the vinyl!)<br /><br />It is probably going to be the easiest solution. Anything else perpetuates the present visual confusion which projects a theological confusion. I doubt if there will be any serious complaint about the temporary <i>ad orientem altar</i> which I think looks just the business.Physiocrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13682019625346594568noreply@blogger.com