Mini-Golf in Rochester Cathedral

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  1. Stalwart

    Stalwart Well-Known Member Anglican

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    Apparently because we aren't the only ones into lunacy, here is a recent 'art exhibit' in Venice's Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore:

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    Licorice Allsort for the Greedy?
     
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    Speaking of licorice, Oh what I wouldn't give for a few boxes of Callard & Bowser's licorice toffees!! If only some confectioner would reproduce that recipe... :happycry:
     
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    A foretaste of the 'Abomination of Desolation'?
    The world is going mad.
     
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    C'est la vie = that's life.
     
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    I am waiting for the responses I anticipate. I remember being told my a fellow student at teacher training whose subject was art that if you do not understand it you do not understand art. I understood that to me an artist may produce what he will and has licence to call it art. Urm, I feel a change of career coming on.
     
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    I can't spell that'd loaf etthur. :no: I have enuf difucultie with English, Frunch I jist cun n't hundle.
     
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    A Leggo zigurat? Whatever are we all babbling about?
     
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    After Brexit, Trump, BoJo and Global warming denial, is this the next insanity?
     
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    This is vile and disgusting - an act of desecration. Notice how the perverse non-art completely obstructs any view of the holy sanctuary. It’s like the Satanic diametrical opposite of an Iconostasis or Rood Screen.
     
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    Liturgyworks Well-Known Member Anglican

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    This post is profound and entirely correct.
     
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    The two are equivalent in terms of being acts of desecration.

    By the way, fun fact: it is a violation of the Apostolic Canons to bring animals into the nave or stable animals inside the church, except in the event of a storm or other emergency in which case they would otherwise perish. So actually, if there was a blizzard, Cromwell could have legitimately stabled his horses in a parish until such time as they could be safely moved, but otherwise, it would be desecration.

    I am also troubled by your implication that cathedrals in the default configuration most of us would prefer they be left in are nothing more than “sombre mausoleums filled with dead mens [sic] bones.”

    Rather, Cathedrals should be understood as places of extreme holiness, where the faithful gather around the Bishop as the disciples gathered around our Lord (see St. Ignatius). They are places of miracles; in many cases they were erected on the site of a miracle, for example, the oldest continually operating cathedral, Holy Etchmiadzin in Armenia, was built on the spot where our Lord appeared during the mission of St. Gregory the Illuminator around 305 AD, leading to the mass conversion of the Armenian people a decade or so before St. Constantine’s vision of the Cross.

    Lastly, in many cases, the bodies in the cathedral are not dead at all, but rather are sacred relics, and while the BCP precludes the improper worship of these relics, this is actually also the Orthodox position; they are worthy of veneration but not worship. And these venerable relics in many cases have been associated with a steady stream of miracles, for example, the myrhh-bearing relics of St. Nicholas of Myra, which produce a sweet, fragrant liquid known for healing; St. Nicholas is the fourth century bishop famous for leaving purses containing gold coins to pay the dowries of three impoverished young girls in his diocese, and also for slapping Arius during the Council of Nicea. All in all rather a likeable chap.
     
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    As usual boomers think this will bring in the masses. It won't and the Church of England will continue to spiral.
     
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    As a boomer, I totally agree with this! My generation has done and is doing some amazingly destructive things. Mea Culpa!
     
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