Continuing the series on my visit to Krakow: the Church of the Poor Clares; one of so many Churches that took my breath away:
Seeing Churches such as this, I always become green with envy and begin to form ideas for improvements to my own parish Church. I was particularly taken with the pulpit here:
As with several other Churches we visited, the confessional seemed to speak of the immediate post-Tridentine reform with a basic arrangement for the anonymity of the penitent, the public placing of the confessional and the liturgical nature of the celebration. This structure seems to have anticipated the Nolan Guidelines:
Seeing Churches such as this, I always become green with envy and begin to form ideas for improvements to my own parish Church. I was particularly taken with the pulpit here:
As with several other Churches we visited, the confessional seemed to speak of the immediate post-Tridentine reform with a basic arrangement for the anonymity of the penitent, the public placing of the confessional and the liturgical nature of the celebration. This structure seems to have anticipated the Nolan Guidelines:
2 comments:
Ugh... My parish church has a really nice altar and side altars, but with all the associated furnishings gone in favor of post-Vatican II renewal, they are up there, but they are rather bare.
I am always amazed when I see pictures like that first one of how everything just leads the eye straight back to the altar at the far end of the sanctuary.
Beautiful pictures!!! And I love the title banner at the top of your blog too!
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