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Ship of Fools: St Thomas More, London

The Mystery WorshipperThe Mystery Worshipper Shipmate
edited February 2022 in The Mystery Worshipper

imageShip of Fools: St Thomas More, London

A moment of transcendence in the midst of a storm

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  • Box PewBox Pew Shipmate
    edited February 2022
    How fascinating! Two MW reports on one day from 1960s London churches made of brick, once circular one square, both of them lit from above by high up windows. "Contrast and compare" as the exam questions used to say....
  • PomonaPomona Shipmate
    Sounds like a very nice thoughtful, prayerful service. And what a beautiful church building - I know I may well be in a minority, but as an Anglican I'm often very envious of modernist mid-20thC RC church buildings. They often feel much more practical and appropriate for community use in the average suburban parish, especially ones with more wood panelling inside which feels warmer than bare brick. But then I am a fan of modernist and brutalist church buildings in general.

    As an aside, I didn't realise Thomas More was canonised so late (per the info on the church's website).
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    I like the building too (from the picture, at least) - but I also know that these Modernist RC buildings often have a tendency to leak!
  • LeatherheadLeatherhead Shipmate Posts: 2
    An awful lot of young people dont want folk masses it is only the older genration who were young in 1960's who seem to hanker after them these days. I think that the make up of the crongration proves this - they want peace and reverance
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Shipmate
    Leatherhead wrote: »
    An awful lot of young people don't want folk masses. It is only the older generation who were young in 1960s who seem to hanker after them these days.

    As someone who was young in the 1960s, I thought them an abomination right from the start. The work of the devil!
  • SojournerSojourner Shipmate
    I note that the church is under the care of the personal prelature of Opus Dei aka The Work. That explains both the demographic and the liturgy. Oppies don’t do folk ( or heating, I suspect)
  • Alan29Alan29 Shipmate
    Leatherhead wrote: »
    An awful lot of young people dont want folk masses it is only the older genration who were young in 1960's who seem to hanker after them these days. I think that the make up of the crongration proves this - they want peace and reverance

    I suppose that depends on the young people you ask.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Peace and reverence on one hand and folk masses on the other are not mutually exclusive. That’s a false dichotomy.

  • SojournerSojourner Shipmate
    Quite so; plenty of conflict and consequent loss of reverence among the traditionally-inclined.

    Funnily enough the greatest admirer of “ folk masses” that I ever encountered was my late mother ( born 1927). When I look back it was an improvement on the snakebelly low fire and brimstone style popular in pre-conciliar Oz.

    Not much Palestrina in them days!
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Shipmate
    [mitre on]

    Yes, Miss Amanda knows she contributed to the tangent. But please, let's take any further discussion of folk masses to a different thread.

    @Amanda B Reckondwyth
    Lead Editor, Mystery Worship

    [mitre off]
  • SojournerSojourner Shipmate
    Yes ma’am
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