Above, a product of their "Catholic" imagination, as is the stations of the Cross that they use for their devotions, below. To say this is an alien image would be insultiong to aliens!
Ok so people worship differently than you. This is a different era, we should be trying to keep the old WHILE inheriting the new. The middle picture is really weird, however the ones for the stations of the Cross are obviously the scenes in the Garden, not actually the Stations itself. We need to follow what Christ wants, and Christ likes expression, and freedom, and creativity. Not really a Mass with strict wording, and elaborate-ness (Tridentine Mass anyone?). He despised the people who went off of the texts and didn't hear it in their hearts. If this makes people listen to Christ in their hearts and to do His work what is wrong with it?
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I think this altar is even worse than the worst altar ever you had a few weeks ago. They always manage to outdo themselves, those liturgical abusers.
Picture 2 is not an altar but a superb example of where freedom of expression takes Catholic art. Somewhere I have an excellent article on the importance of rubrics for the preservation of the Mass.
I really hate this "art", but, like you, I wouldn't mind it (it's apparently not supposed to be sacreligious) IF it weren't being used in a Catholic church. But for these to be used in the liturgy as an altar and stations is really demeaning.
One, crusader, good job on thinking something that is an altar isnt... how did you get that? Second, then the two stations that you put up, what are they? Because to me the first one looks like the agony in the Garden, the second looks like the betrayal, and the third looks like they are taking Jesus away.
Well if it is not meant to be sacrilegious then what is the big deal. Obviously if they were doing this in a blatant attempt to disavow the Church, then it should be taken this way, but it is just an expression of a different generation. 1)The stations look fine to me, you can tell what is what and all looks good. 2)The piece of "art" above it, yes looks a tad weird, and to me has absolutely no significant meaning, however, it doesn't look like that is what is being used in the Church by the looks of the picture, so what is the big deal with that. What exactly is demeaning about the altar, it looks like the altar looks like an altar, and the "imaginative" work just looks like a piece of art, nothing more.
Above, a product of their "Catholic" imagination, as is the stations of the Cross that they use for their devotions, below.
To say this is an alien image would be insultiong to aliens!
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I really hate this "art", but, like you, I wouldn't mind it (it's apparently not supposed to be sacreligious) IF it weren't being used in a Catholic church. But for these to be used in the liturgy as an altar and stations is really demeaning.
Second, then the two stations that you put up, what are they? Because to me the first one looks like the agony in the Garden, the second looks like the betrayal, and the third looks like they are taking Jesus away.
1)The stations look fine to me, you can tell what is what and all looks good.
2)The piece of "art" above it, yes looks a tad weird, and to me has absolutely no significant meaning, however, it doesn't look like that is what is being used in the Church by the looks of the picture, so what is the big deal with that.
What exactly is demeaning about the altar, it looks like the altar looks like an altar, and the "imaginative" work just looks like a piece of art, nothing more.