This is not loving Jesus.



I FOUND IT INTERESTING THAT THE LITURGICAL ARTS JOURNAL GOT IT WRONG AT FIRST GLANCE - IT IS NOT A TREE IT IS MEANT OT BE A BUSH AND REPRESENTING THE BURNING BUSGH ON MUNT HOREB WHERE GOD SPOKE TO MOSES. THE SECOND POINT IS THAT IT IS NOT A TABERNACLE. A TABERNACLE HAS ITS OWN HISTORY AND SHAPE. THE ARK OF THE COVENANT WAS KEPT IN A TENT WHEN THE JEWS WERE IN THE DESERT BUT WHEN THEY BUILT THE TEMPLE THE ARK OF THE COVENANT, WHICH CONTAINED THE WORD OF THE LAW WAS ALSO KEPT IN A TENT. THE SPACE OUTSIDE THE TENT WAS KNOWN AS THE MEETING PLACE AND THAT IS WHY IN THE MAJORITY OF CATHLIC CHURCHES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THE TABERNACLE IS SHAPE LIKE A TENT FOR IT NOT ONLY CONTAINS THE WORD OF GOD AS IN JEWISH HISTORY BUT THE WORD OF GOD MADE FLESH IN THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST.  OUR LOCAL CHURCHES ARE THEREFORE THE MEETING PLACES OUSDIE THE TENT AND HOLY PLACES AS MOUNT HOREB WAS A HOLY PLACE.    DID THE CHURCH THEN CHANGE ITS MIND AND SAY A TABERNACLE COULD BE ANY SHAPE? THERE IS NOT A SINGLE DOCUMENT OR OFFICIAL INSTRUCTION IN EXISTENCE WHICH SAYS THIS. THIS WAS THE WORK OF LOCAL BISHOPS WHO MADE UNILATERAL DECISIONS AND IGNORED THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH. IT WAS A NOVEL WAY OF PUTTING INTO PRACTICE ANOTHER UNILATERAL DECISION TO REMOVE THE TABERNACLE FROM THE ALTAR SO THAT WITH THE HEAD REMMOVED FROM THE MYSTICAL BODY THERE WOULD BE NO DEVOTION TO JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT. INDEED AT THE TIME THIS WAS INTRODUCED AT ST BEDES ON A VISIT TO A CATHEDRAL I WENT TO THE CHAPEL OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT AND FOUND ALTHOUGH THE TABERNACLE WAS THERE THERE WAS NO PLACDE TO KNEEL, NOT A CHAIR TO SIT ON AND IF YOU WISHED TO KNEEL IT WAS ON A STONE COLD FLOOR WHICH WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR WOMEN. DEVOTION WAS BEING STOPPED IN THE CRUELEST OF WAYS. . YET WHEN THIS TREE WAS BEING INTRODUCED THE PEOPLE WERE TOLD THAT 'THE CHURCH WAS AGAINST KEEPING THE TABERNACLE ON THE ALTAR' IT WAS A DISGRACEFUL STATEMENT WITH NOTHING TO BACK IT UP. I AM NOT OF ST BEDE'S PARISH BUT WHEREVER THERE IS DISRESPECT FOR BOTH JESUS AND THE ORDINARY CATHOLICS I WILL SPEAK UP, I DID SO AT THE TIME AND I DO SO NOW.

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