We recently celebrated the Forty Hours Adoration at Saint Mungo’s. Nowadays, the adoration is interrupted for the usual public Masses during the day and again at night. Here are some photographs I took on the different days. I took them at times when I knew there were very few people in the church, so as to distract as few as possible; my apologies to anyone I disturbed.
Sunday Night
Monday Afternoon
Tuesday Morning
Beautiful. (I can think of some additional uses for these.)
Oh wow….
Stunning. My muggy Tuesday morning was made all the brighter for seeing this post.
Is the rectors brother in-law a candel salesman?
Beautiful images indeed. Congratulations on your technical tour de force, presenting traditional chuirch architecture at its very best. It really lifts the spirit!.
Breathtakingly beautiful! I linked to this on my blog.
Seriously, if this is part of a Counter Reformation, I approve and am heartily great full.
About 10 years ago, I went into the Philadelphia Cathedral in the USA. They had exposition. The monstrance was on a small altar in the center of the sanctuary with two candels, one on each side, the place was pretty dark. However when the Cardinal Archbishop comes out, his episcopal throne is flooded with spotlights.
Edward P. Walton
Regarding Above Comment:
The Philadelphia Cathedral USA, in the last month or two, built and installed a new tabernacle with an exposition throne.
This new tabernacle was moved back to the “main” altar. A “side” altar with a tabernacle was used after the council.
It is now the visul center of the Cathedral because of the size, very large, the color, white marble and the special lighting.
Buiilding for this Cathedral was begun by the Redemptorist Bishop, St. John Neumann in the mid 1850’s. In 1957, the Holy Cross Archbishop, Cardinal O’Hara enlarged and redecorated the entire building including new stained glass windows in the sanctuary,
The back section of the sanctuary has very beautiful stained glass windows, after the style of Chartres with that special French blue.
Alas! This new addition blocks one half of the window behind the “main” altar.
“Be careful of what you pray for”.