{"id":53850,"date":"2020-11-20T20:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T02:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=53850"},"modified":"2020-11-30T08:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:24:53","slug":"another-liturgical-year-another-bare-ruined-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/20\/another-liturgical-year-another-bare-ruined-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Liturgical Year, Another Bare, Ruined Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this dumpster-fire of a year, I received yet another blow to my liturgical desert-life.\u00a0 My home parish\u2019s historic church building, located at 8<sup>th<\/sup> and Sycamore in Columbus, Indiana, will be demolished shortly after Christ the King weekend, to make way for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/2020\/03\/08\/church_to_be_torn_down_for_project\/\">multi-million dollar apartment complex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/52weeks.rickyberkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2011-11-25-20-44-44_0046-648x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Week 41 (St. Bartholomew Catholic Church) | 52 weeks of Columbus, Indiana\" width=\"221\" height=\"349\" \/>Great.\u00a0 Yet another historic landmark (the church\u2019s cornerstone was laid in 1891) bites the dust\u2026bulldozed under a wave of American consumerism and lack of religiosity.\u00a0 Not that I\u2019m bitter.<\/p>\n<p>But, wait.\u00a0 The Catholic historian inside me tries to talk some sense: Roman Catholic resources are limited.\u00a0 The Archdiocese can\u2019t afford to keep paying bills on a (literally) crumbling space.\u00a0 American Catholics were too optimistic in developing parallel resources that couldn\u2019t be supported once budgets cost more than a shoestring.\u00a0 And, don\u2019t forget that the building has been ABANDONED for nearly twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>Such cold-hearted logic must prevail.\u00a0 And, yet, I\u2019m still sad.<\/p>\n<p>Why should I have such sadness about a space\u2014once clad in angels and filled with music\u2014that is now just another bare, ruined choir?\u00a0 What does this necessary right-sizing of diocesan property have to do with the liturgical life?<\/p>\n<p>If my year has been a shade like anyone else\u2019s, I\u2019m guessing that a lot of our liturgical lives look a <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53851 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/St.-Bartholomew-Sacristy-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/St.-Bartholomew-Sacristy-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/St.-Bartholomew-Sacristy-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/St.-Bartholomew-Sacristy-768x1024.jpg 768w, 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without sacramental participation.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, for some of us this year, the spaces and places of our liturgical lives exist only in memory.\u00a0 As for me, I didn\u2019t need to have a beloved liturgical space crushed into a parking lot to make the point stand out.\u00a0 But, thank you, 2020, it sure does help.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, perhaps it is most appropriate to confront the demise of \u201cthe old church\u201d during this Season of the End-Times.\u00a0 Its coming has invited me to confront long-dead memories. \u00a0I can imagine each corner of that well-loved space, from its mysterious choir loft (already verboten because you could fall through it in the 1990s), to its grey-carpeted nave, to its sacristy packed with decades of treasures.\u00a0 In my mind\u2019s eye, I can see where I stood when I first served an Easter Vigil Mass\u2026where I helped drag live Christmas trees into the sanctuary (before the county fire department put the kabash on that kind of thing)\u2026the piano bench where I first sat, and became a church musician.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/KyN0qhf6drg\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"St Bartholomew Church Sycamore Street Columbus, Indiana - YouTube\" width=\"388\" height=\"291\" \/>These spaces and things form my own sacramental memory\u2014but they exist only in memory.<\/p>\n<p>Advent asks us to move through a desert of memories, for the beginning of the end of time is coming.\u00a0 Christ is coming, and it seems we must be razed to the ground before we may be raised from the dead.\u00a0 Just possibly, the destruction of my home parish\u2019s historic building might remind me, or us, that empty shells are not meant to hold worshipping Christians captive\u2014in memory or in life.\u00a0 There is something more to the liturgical life, even, than having the privilege of gathering in person with one\u2019s community in a particular space.<\/p>\n<p>The 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Harmon, Ph.D., is Project Director for the Obsculta Preaching Initiative at Saint John\u2019s School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota. \u202fA Roman Catholic pastoral liturgist and American Catholic historian, Harmon is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame\u2019s liturgical studies program.\u202f She has contributed over a dozen articles and chapters to the fields of both liturgical studies and American Catholicism.\u202f She is the author of\u202f There Were Also Many Women There: Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States, 1926-1959\u202f(Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2013) and\u202fMary and the Liturgical Year: A Pastoral Resource\u202f (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2023). She edits the blog, Pray Tell.","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/author\/kharmon\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/St.-Bartholomew-Nave-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53854,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53850\/revisions\/53854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}