[Magdalen] What are we reading?

[Lynn Ronkainen]

David S> You'd think > the
> place had been attacked by radical Protestant reformers.
>


no... but probably by radical post V2 enthusiasts <gdr>

Lynn


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From: "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 2:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [Magdalen] What are we reading?

>
>
> In a message dated 2/2/2015 2:42:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> gracecan at gmail.com writes:
>
> Merton  was schooled in France or Switzerland, IIRC. While I
> admire his later work,  I will never be a fan.>>>>
>
> When I cleared out my office at the VA a year ago, the missing
> b&w photo given me by a former Gethsemani monk turned up.
> Wouldn't you know, now I can't find it again.
>
> It shows Solemn High Mass at the Abbey Church in the glory days
> for monastic Orders, just after the end of WW-2.  The Abbey is
> a long, high, and narrow building, and at the time had an elaborate
> quadripartite gothic pseudovaulting.
>
> The picture shows the dramatic moment of an Elevation, with incense
> galore floating up to the high vaults.
>
> Among the 100+ monks bowing low in their stalls is Merton.
>
> After Vatican-2, the monks tore out all the pseudovaulting, and left  the
> building with the spare and stark steel beams actually supporting the 
> roof
> exposed.
>
> The interior is extremely white, and overwhelmingly austere.   You'd think
> the
> place had been attacked by radical Protestant reformers.
>
> The monks sure make good cheese, however.
>
>
>
> David Strang.
>
>