Removal of altar rails

[rachael]

[quote name='popestpiusx' date='Feb 3 2005, 11:46 AM']
Hughey, I would not consider the Nigerian church terribly extravagant. [/quote]
maybe not the way you see it

[franciscanheart]

1986

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='popestpiusx' date='Feb 3 2005, 10:00 AM'] I guess those are more "modified" rood screens, though. [/quote]
Yes, they are modified -- ancient western rood screens were normally solid at the bottom and contained icons of the saints -- but even those modified screens are wonderful. The sanctuary has traditionally been marked off by the iconostasis/rood screen, or at a minimum, an altar rail, and so Churches without those things are architecturally incomplete.

God bless,
Todd

[popestpiusx]

[quote name='Apotheoun' date='Feb 3 2005, 08:00 PM'] Yes, they are modified -- ancient western rood screens were normally solid at the bottom and contained icons of the saints -- but even those modified screens are wonderful. The sanctuary has traditionally been marked off by the iconostasis/rood screen, or at a minimum, an altar rail, and so Churches without those things are architecturally incomplete.

God bless,
Todd [/quote]
I agree. That's why I would make it a crime to remove them in my little city state/ country (of which I would be a ruthless yet benevolent tyrant).

[Totus Tuus]

[quote name='popestpiusx' date='Feb 2 2005, 09:29 AM']
I think if I was the dictator of a small country, I would make it illegal to remove the communion rail from churches. Punishable by execution. [/quote]
Permission to be a lowly citizen of your small country, O great one?

[Totus Tuus]

A Roman Catholic Church under the Anglican 'use' or 'rite' or whatever it's called in Houston put up a nice rood screen in their church. It's pretty, and they have the altar rail and everything, but I prefer my 150-year-old French Gothic church... of course...

Edited February 4, 2005 by Totus Tuus

[Totus Tuus]

[url="http://www.abcsoffaith.com/artchurch/olwart04.htm"]http://www.abcsoffaith.com/artchurch/olwart04.htm[/url] That site has pictures of the Our Lady of Walsingham. A lot has been modified since those pictures were taken (I don't think it even shows the altar rails, which are quite beautiful), but you get the idea. I believe they had to keep it fairly modest (they would have probably liked to have it more like those English churches someone posted), but our Bishop is pretty picky about adorning the churches