tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post3296139267826147295..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: DesecrationFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-45693822343663036152007-12-20T12:29:00.000+00:002007-12-20T12:29:00.000+00:00When Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited he wa...When Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited he wanted to include a scene describing the ceremony for "deconsecration" of a chapel. He could find no mention of this anywhere and wrote to Mgr. Knox to ask him to describe the ritual which he did in his reply and this found its way into the book. It describes the action of the priest removing the altar stone, burning the wads of wool where the holy oils have been and throwing the ash outside, then emptying the holy water stoop and tabernacle and blowing out the sanctuary lamp. I should imagine this ceremony was performed in a number of Catholic country houses in the 20th Century.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-84343561206157110742007-12-19T20:26:00.000+00:002007-12-19T20:26:00.000+00:00The common practice in Russian Orthodox church is ...The common practice in Russian Orthodox church is that if something consecrated, it cannot be desecrated. If something goes wrong with the consecrated thing, it must be destroyed, usually burnt in fire. In extreme cases, this may include church buildings. I recall a few years ago there was a scandal when some Russian Orthodox priest married a homosexual pair in a chapel, I heard this small wooden chapel was subsequently destroyed. (Although I very much doubt a bigger or more familiar church could be destroyed in such a case).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-36463244240135109492007-12-19T18:33:00.000+00:002007-12-19T18:33:00.000+00:00...and our intellectual appreciation of ontology a......and our intellectual appreciation of ontology and its transcendence of spatio-temporality.<BR/>Our notions of sacramentality and miracles, and indeed the very presence of the single sacrifice on calvary inherant within the mass [and antecedent in the last supper] and the heralding of our redemption in the immaculate conception all require by necessity our belief in the 'Beyond time and space' of the Godhead and its immanent interaction with creation - the ontological difference within the 'priest forever' is all but lost in these days of 'ministries for all' - but all too often this 'transcendence' is the first doctrinal aspect that vanishes from contemporary catechesis.On the side of the angelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05558623489507006790noreply@blogger.com