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| s2srea said: | CMof7-
I went there about 7 years ago (when in the NO). I wouldn't say it's ugly, but as Sigismund mentioned, definitely not fit for a Catholic Church. I know that on the grounds of the facility, there was a dedication to Bishop Fulton Sheen...  |
Liste nto Sheen toward end of his life, much more fire and brimstone, a lot less friendly....me thinks with age and insight, was seeing what was going on more.......have several talks in few yrs prior to his death, he pulled fewer punches, but still, often had a blind spot at times......
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| Belloc said: | | s2srea said: | CMof7-
I went there about 7 years ago (when in the NO). I wouldn't say it's ugly, but as Sigismund mentioned, definitely not fit for a Catholic Church. I know that on the grounds of the facility, there was a dedication to Bishop Fulton Sheen... |
Liste nto Sheen toward end of his life, much more fire and brimstone, a lot less friendly....me thinks with age and insight, was seeing what was going on more.......have several talks in few yrs prior to his death, he pulled fewer punches, but still, often had a blind spot at times...... |
I spoke to someone who had met Sheen on a public train shortly before his death,
and had a nice conversation with him. She said he was quite regretful of how he
had handled things, and that if he had taken a stronger stand against the growing
popularity of Modernism his life would have been different, and he may not have
lived as long, but he would have done the right thing. Instead, he had tried to keep
the peace, and the enemies of the Church crushed him, by putting him out of
business. It should be a lesson for the SSPX Fellayites who think they can keep the
peace with NewRome by making a "deal."
The Crystal Cathedral has one of the world's great organs in it. Curiously, the organ,
in place is worth about 10% of the purchase price of the property, but the organ,
ironically, has little use for the routine activities that are currently typical of Novus
Ordo cathedrals. The venue could be an excellent one for classical concerts,
because the acoustics are very good, and the organ can literally do anything that
any organ could be expected to do.
I just saw Plácido Domingo at the Hollywood Bowl yesterday, and as to be
expected, the sound quality was rather compromised. His voice and the voice
of the soprano, Ana María Martínez, who sang some things too, were both superb,
of course, as was the L.A. Phil with Dudamel, but the PA system is always less
than one would like to hear there, for the Bowl is utterly DEAD with no acoustics
whatsoever.
I have been in outdoor ampitheaters that have very good acoustics, but their
shape is much different than the Bowl's. And they are much smaller. This same
concert last night would have been far better in the Crystal Cathedral, but the
price of the tickets would have been astronomical. We had average priced tickets
at $34 each, and the Bowl holds 18,000. It was a full house. Do the math.
The concert was scheduled to start at 7:30, but it was more like 7:42 pm. They
had a 15 minute intermission at 8:30 and then came back and kept going until
10:00 pm, when they had to stop, apparently, Bowl policy.
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Just listening to his talk on Discipleship and Judas yesterday, he was very firery on that.....I think toward the end, he was seeing what was going on.....perhaps, in his epxeriences, he did not see the damage first hand, did not have a lot of hands on during last 20+ yrs in a parish as much...SOme people take longer to wake up......
all in all, I think he was one of the good guys, remember, the 60's-early, mid 80's were very confusing times, much more clear and battle lines drawn clearer now........
I still get the newsletter from the Cause of his Canonization.....
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