Nobody has to do anything they don’t want to anymore.
—my wife, at the breakfast table this morning
The Spirit of Vatican II, Shorter Version
8 responses to “The Spirit of Vatican II, Shorter Version”
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I’m trying to imagine the rest of this conversation.
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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.
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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 -
Sad. Or rather scandalous.
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I mean, could they not at least have dispersed the relics and burnt the antiquities?
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“…and in 1971…” No explanation at all of why it was done, but the year says it all.
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I mean, could they not at least have dispersed the relics and burnt the antiquities?
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