Altar-ing the Faith…
Altars Are For Sacrifice, Tables Are For Meals:
Behold 14 Dreadful Novus Ordo ‘Altars’
The following is a collage of fourteen table-like constructs that are used in Novus Ordo churches as ‘altars’ on which supposed Catholic priests perform what they call the ‘Eucharistic celebration’ — the Novus Ordo counterpart to the Holy Catholic Mass.
As the ‘New Mass’, as it is often called, is not the Sacrifice of Calvary but merely a Eucharistic meal service, it makes sense that the Neo-Modernists prefer to use tables, even though they may still call them ‘altars’ (to feign some continuity with the past) and indeed still use some real altars for their false Mass as well.
Click on the collage for a larger view. (We took these photos from individual images originally linked by the German conservative Novus Ordo Nur ein Kreuzknappe blog twelve years ago.)
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Obviously, these ‘altar-tables’ are hideous by design. Why the deliberate use of ugliness for modern altars? Perhaps because it goes really well with the hideous modern churches they have been building, of which the altar is the most prominent part.
New churches for a new ‘Mass’ with a new altar representing a new religion — that is what we have been dealing with since the 1960s.
By comparison, here is an example of what a traditional Roman Catholic altar looks like:
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Wayne, Michigan
One can see immediately that the Roman Catholic altar is of the greatest importance. Everything about it points to “the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth” (Col 3:2). The altar is the place of Sacrifice, on which the Immaculate Victim of Calvary, Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ, is mystically offered to the Most Holy Trinity, under the appearances of bread and wine.
Anyone with the slightest bit of common sense, even if not Catholic, would have to agree that this shouldn’t exactly be done on a shoe box or a picnic table. In addition, at the center of the altar is found the Tabernacle, where Our Lord dwells Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, in the Blessed Sacrament, for the adoration of the faithful.
Wisely did Pope Pius XII warn against the Neo-Modernist innovators who were cleverly trying to introduce their revolutionary spirit into the Sacred Liturgy already years before the Second Vatican Council:
…it is neither wise nor laudable to reduce everything to antiquity by every possible device. Thus, to cite some instances, one would be straying from the straight path were he to wish the altar restored to its primitive table form; were he to want black excluded as a color for the liturgical vestments; were he to forbid the use of sacred images and statues in Churches; were he to order the crucifix so designed that the divine Redeemer’s body shows no trace of His cruel sufferings; and lastly were he to disdain and reject polyphonic music or singing in parts, even where it conforms to regulations issued by the Holy See.
(Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Mediator Dei, n. 62; underlining added.)
While you’re already aghast and upset about what the enemies of our holy religion have done to the Sacred Liturgy, we invite you to take a look at some of their infernal church designs, of which ‘Most Holy Trinity Church’ in Vienna, Austria, is always a top contender:
The apostasy of the Vatican II Church really is quite blatant. All one needs is eyes to see.
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