Re: Lenten/ Easter Decorating

Posted by B. on January 28, 2004 at 09:58:57:

In Reply to: Lenten/ Easter Decorating posted by Mary on January 28, 2004 at 08:32:30:

I think this is the right board to ask the question.

: I am looking for new and different ways and ideas to decorate our Church for the upcoming Season.

I am not being mean, but why?

What is the virtue of novelty in this case?

Easter only comes once a year, is that too frequently to decorate in the same fashion as previously?

And Lent is so NOT about decorating.

The starkness of no evidence of the flower arranger's art is a symbol in and of itself.
Dead branches are pretentious, as is a crucifix swathed in rags for 40 days (both of which I saw last year.)
The colors are specified.
Removing the holy water from the fonts (and worse, sometimes replacing it with sand,) for the whole of Lent is silly innovation for innovations sake and deprives the assembly of a sacramental to which they are entitled.

Unless yours is a parish in its first year of existence, why do you need something "new"?
The Chruch year is not the junior prom, where one wants to be different from the class that prededed one.
Does your parish have no beloved traditons?

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• Re: Lenten/ Easter Decorating Praveen 22:00:35 1/29/04 (0)
• Re: Lenten/ Easter Decorating Praveen 21:59:47 1/29/04 (2)
  • Re: Lenten/ Easter Decorating Maureen 08:49:13 1/30/04 (1)
    • Re: Lenten/ Easter Decorating Lara 12:26:48 1/30/04 (0)

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: I think this is the right board to ask the question. : : I am looking for new and different ways and ideas to decorate our Church for the upcoming Season. : I am not being mean, but why? : What is the virtue of novelty in this case? : Easter only comes once a year, is that too frequently to decorate in the same fashion as previously? : And Lent is so NOT about decorating. : The starkness of no evidence of the flower arranger's art is a symbol in and of itself. : Dead branches are pretentious, as is a crucifix swathed in rags for 40 days (both of which I saw last year.) : The colors are specified. : Removing the holy water from the fonts (and worse, sometimes replacing it with sand,) for the whole of Lent is silly innovation for innovations sake and deprives the assembly of a sacramental to which they are entitled. : Unless yours is a parish in its first year of existence, why do you need something "new"? : The Chruch year is not the junior prom, where one wants to be different from the class that prededed one. : Does your parish have no beloved traditons?

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