Passiontide Photopost 2017 (Part 2) - Zeal for Tradition Continues!

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In the 40 hours since we published the first set of photos of your churches with the crosses and statues veiled for Passiontide, we have received quite a few more. In part one, I stated that we would likely get to doing three posts; this has proved incorrect, and we will definitely get up to four; I am pretty certain that this is the first time this has happened for any of our photopost requests. They are published in the order received, so if you don’t see yours here, be assured, I will get to them in the next couple of days. Fr Ian Farrell, who sent in the photos of St Joseph’s in Manchester, England, wrote that his parish is “anxious to honour all the traditions Mother Church has handed down to us.”; again, what a very heartening sign this is of the rediscovery of our Catholic liturgical patrimony.

This set will include a couple of posts from churches of the Ordinariate, an interesting Sicilian take on the veiling, and some photos (not of veils!) from a church of the Byzantine Rite. Evangelize through beauty!

An altar piece with its wings closed for Passiontide, an extremely common arrangement in the Middle Ages.