Brick by Brick: ad orientem worship at Assumption Grotto in Detroit: table altar removed.Posted on27 August 2012byFr. John ZuhlsdorfHere is some great news.At the wonderful parish, Assumption Grotto, in Detroit, the free-standing altar set up in the middle of the sanctuary – in front of the beautiful main altar – has now been removed.The blog Te Deum Laudamus covers what is going on at Assumption Grotto and there are photos.That, friends, is what the sanctuary was designed to look like.Compared to:Think of all the money that was spent over the last decades to ruin churches that could have been used for other parish needs, all in the name of the Second Vatican Council which never mandated these wreckovations.As I understand it, the removal of the ironing-board altar… sorry, perhaps that is too dismissive… picnic-table altar… was the result of a patient process
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Brick by Brick: ad orientem worship at Assumption Grotto in Detroit: table altar removed.
