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Spanish Church: Dog Kennel Called "Francis' Altar"

A strange Last Supper table looking like a dog kennel was put in the baroque Santa Clara Church in Seville, Spain.

The author of the mockery is the architectural studio of Pablo Millán who fittingly called the embarrassment a “Francis altar” and, sadly, “one of the most exciting commissions we have been given so far.”

Millán thanked Seville Archbishop José Ángel Saiz Meneses for his support in this project. DiarioDeSevilla.es (February 16) observed that people’s comments on social media were “not exactly of praise.”

The church was closed for worship for 25 years until being turned now into a laughing stock.

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Credo .
@Piotr Englard English Catholic. My apoligies. You are indeed correct. At the 1929 apparition Sr. Lucia was repeatedly praying the Trinarian prayer which was given by The Angel of Peace in 1916. (A bit confusing for an 80 year old mind), but it shows us how important this 'prayer of reparation' is. Sorry to have put you to through this; and thank you for putting me back on track! > 🙏 🙏 🙏
English Catholic
@Credo . No problem. And you're right, it is an important prayer. One of the Dominican Nuns of the Perpetual Rosary at the Monastery Pius XII in Fatima thought of making a chaplet using the Fatima prayers given by the Angel. She asked the bishop for permission and he said that no permission was necessary as the prayers were already approved. I'll see if I can find the prayer card she had made up, …More
@Credo . No problem. And you're right, it is an important prayer. One of the Dominican Nuns of the Perpetual Rosary at the Monastery Pius XII in Fatima thought of making a chaplet using the Fatima prayers given by the Angel. She asked the bishop for permission and he said that no permission was necessary as the prayers were already approved. I'll see if I can find the prayer card she had made up, and post it online. God bless you!
English Catholic
@Credo . I found the prayer card for the chaplet - see below.
Credo .
@ English Catholic. What a beautiful chaplet. I had no idea it existed. Thank you so much for posting it! God bless you!. > 🙏 🙏 🙏
English Catholic
Sorry @Credo . I have to beg to differ on this. The Trinitarian Vision took place at Tuy in 1929 to Sr Lucia alone, not in 1916 when the Angel appeared to all three children. On the third visit the Angel showed them a chalice and host suspended in the air, and gave them the Trinitarian prayer - but not the Trinitarian Vision - and then gave them Holy Communion. Maybe we are talking at cross …More
Sorry @Credo . I have to beg to differ on this. The Trinitarian Vision took place at Tuy in 1929 to Sr Lucia alone, not in 1916 when the Angel appeared to all three children. On the third visit the Angel showed them a chalice and host suspended in the air, and gave them the Trinitarian prayer - but not the Trinitarian Vision - and then gave them Holy Communion. Maybe we are talking at cross purposes here - I've attached an image of the Tuy Vision below, which took place in the chapel in 1929. In Sister Lucia's Memoirs, which I have, she does not mention the Trinitarian vision happening in 1916, but in 1929. I have also attached the whole of Sister Lucia's memoirs, which put events in their correct order. The description of the Apparitions of the Angel and what occurred during them start on page 170.
Credo .
@ English Catholic. In 1916, The Angel of peace appeared three times to the three children of Fatima. On his second visit he told them to say the prayer "My God I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee! I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee. On his third visit he showed the seers the vision of The Blessed Trinity along with the lovely prayer of …More
@ English Catholic. In 1916, The Angel of peace appeared three times to the three children of Fatima. On his second visit he told them to say the prayer "My God I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee! I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee. On his third visit he showed the seers the vision of The Blessed Trinity along with the lovely prayer of reparation.

In 1929 Sr. Lucia stated: "It was at this time that Our Lady informed me that the moment had come in which she wished me to make known to Holy Church for her desire for the Consecration of Russia, and her promise to convert it. The communication was as follows:

13.6.1929. I had sought and obtained permission from my superiors and confessor to make a Holy Hour from eleven o'clock until midnight, every thursday to Friday. Being alone one night, I knelt near the altar rails in the middle of the chapel and, prostrate, I prayed the prayers of the Angel. Feeling tired, I then stood up and continued to say the prayers with my arms in the form of a cross. The only light was that of the sanctuary lamp. Suddenly the whole chapel was illumined by a supernatural light, and above the altar appeared a cross of light, reaching to the ceiling. In a brighter light on the upper part of the cross, could be seen the face of a man and his body as far as the waist, upon his breast was a dovealso of light and nailed to the cross was the body of another man. A little below the waist. I could see a chalice and a large host suspended in the air, on to which drops of blood were falling from the face of Jesus crucified and from the wound in His side. These drops ran down on to the host and fell into the chalice. Beneath the right arm of the cross was Our Lady and in Her hand was Her Immaculate Heart. (it was Our Lady of Fatima, with Her Immaculate Heart in Her left hand, without swords or roses, but with a crown of thorns and flames). Under the left arm of the cross, large letters, as if out of crystal clear water which ran down upon the altar, formed these words: "Grace and Mercy." I understood that it was the Mystery of the Most Holy Trinity which was shown to me, and I received lights about this mystery which I am not permitted to reveal.

Our Lady then said to me: - "The moment has come in which God asks the Holy Father, in union with all the Bishops of the world, to make the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means. There are so many souls whom the Justice of God condemns for sins committed against me, that I have come to ask reparation: sacrifice yourself for this intention and pray.

Fatima in Lucia's own words. page 197. Imprimatur,
Fatima June 2003.
Seraphinus, Episc. Leir.
Credo .
O most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor …More
O most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners! - "Saint Clare of Assisi, Ora Pro Nobis".
The last vision of Fatima 1929. 🙏 🙏 🙏
English Catholic
@Credo . Just a minor detail - that lovely prayer of reparation was given to the Fatima seers by the Angel in the third apparition of the Angel at the Loca do Cabeco in 1916, a year before the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima. No prayers were given at the Tuy apparition in 1929, just the command to consecrate Russia The Apparition at Tuy (1929) | The Fatima Center
foward
This church was made by Catholics.
Modernists are not content to build ugly new churches; they desecrate the old ones.
Louis IX
They’re more relieved than happy as Ikea furniture can be a real pain to assemble.
paul arten
How could anyone be proud of this of that piece of junk? What was wrong with the beautiful altar in the back round?
Croí Láidir
@paul arten - To answer your second question, "What was wrong with the beautiful altar in the back [g]round?'- It is Catholic.
Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
That new altar is a piece of s--t. It reflects Francis' version of the church so well.
Credo .
Perfect place for the clown priest to jump out of! 😬
Wilma Lopez
“After the Council, new altars were installed everywhere…which brings with it a new idea of the essence of liturgy: liturgy as a community meal." (Joseph Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy)
John A Cassani
They were installed everywhere, even if they were folding tables, or on wheels. It’s funny, I don’t recall Paul VI lamenting the change in orientation of the Mass. It’s not as though he was foreign to it, as he celebrated Mass quite often in the later sixties at table altars. Maybe he thought that it would only be at new churches that it would take hold? He was obviously wrong, if so. Anyway, I …More
They were installed everywhere, even if they were folding tables, or on wheels. It’s funny, I don’t recall Paul VI lamenting the change in orientation of the Mass. It’s not as though he was foreign to it, as he celebrated Mass quite often in the later sixties at table altars. Maybe he thought that it would only be at new churches that it would take hold? He was obviously wrong, if so. Anyway, I believe that the greatest reason they are after the TLM is because it is celebrated ad orientem, and this shows that the reorientation (disorientation?) of the Mass was the real point of the reforms.
Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
Along with Francis, Paul VI was among the worst Popes the Roman CAtholic Church ever had....and John XXIII of course also.