Why Have Tabernacles Disappeared? [resurrected]

[TheLordsSouljah]

Are these chapels? Perhaps chapels don't have the same conditions as a parish church. I have been to a few different parishes in australia and there all OK. Tabernacles elevated in a place of prominence in full view of the parish. Except st benedicts gold coast and the cathedral in my diocese. I don't mind the crucifix with the holy spirit but i don't know about the whole circular auditorium thing. I heard sydney is kicking goals in the holy catholic church when it comes to ministries, heaps to do that is Christ centered.

Don't get me wrong, there are a heap of good ones.... some very beautiful. It's just a lot of the ones built in the 70s/80s, etc. I find the wire extraordinarily in my face and distracting... for me I see nothing to raise my eyes to, except a heap of twisted metal and down lights. My home parish is shaped like a sea shell, though my own Cathedral at home is a nice older sortaly Gothic cathedral. Ahh dear...

[Apotheoun]

Only one light needs to be on next to the tabernacle, that little red one.

There are no lights around the tabernacle at all during the liturgy, because the parish liturgy committee has determined that if the tabernacle can be seen it will distract from the Eucharistic liturgy.

[Debra Little]

Our tabernacles are in the front of the Church. Not all parishes self -destructed.

Not ours. It is way off on the left side of
the church. I wish they would put it where it
belongs

[Apotheoun]

Not ours. It is way off on the left side of
the church. I wish they would put it where it
belongs

That happens a lot, but it should be located on the altar. The tabernacle and the altar are one mystery of the Lord's presence and so they should never be separated.

[Nunsense]

I hate it when they put it in another room entirely. At one church in the US I looked all around for the vigil lamp and finally found it over a doorway - they had a separate chapel where they kept the Tabernacle and they actually went off into that room during Mass to the Tabernacle. I didn't go back there again.

 

In one church in the OC, they had the Tabernacle in a small area away from the altar - still in the same room but off to a side. I went over to pray and noticed that the key was IN the Tabernacle door. Of course this is the same church where I asked a parishioner when Reconciliation was and she told me that 'Father doesn't believe that people should tell him their sins - he says they should tell them to God.' I didn't go back there again either.

 

One time in Australia the priest left the chalice on the altar for people to come up and help themselves during Communion. That time I did speak to the priest afterwards, suggesting that it wasn't 'legal' to do this, and he said he didn't have anyone to give it out, and he thought this way was better than no one receiving. To make things even worse (if possible) this was a parish in a poor area so there were obviously people with alcohol problems who could just help themselves to wine without any understanding of the Sacrament at all. I didn't go back there again either.

 

It isn't easy to find a good parish sometimes - so anyone who does - be grateful for such a grace!

[Apotheoun]

Who takes contemporary liturgists seriously?

[Apotheoun]

The Roman Catholic church :hehe2:

Sad, but true.