From the Bavarian newspaper, 'Münchner Merkur'.
Röhrmoos is a town of 6,300 citizens, located twenty miles north of Munich.
The "bar altar" has one leg and is shaped like what one finds in bars in railway station lobbies.
The bishop consecrated the thing following the arrival of ten acolytes from the Munich seminary.
The website for the Seminary of Munich and Freising published pictures of the occasion.
His consecration and the blessing of the table-like lectern were the damning conclusion of a church renovation.
The one-legged bar table was hammered in directly to the floor, in front of the baroque high altar.
Msgr Haßlberger described the lectern and altar as the two most important places in the church.
In reality, the lectern is a late invention of the 1970s.
Why the Bishop did not mention the tabernacle remains a secret.
He praised the insidious and obtrusive bar table as "subtle and unobtrusive."
The pastor of Röhrmoos, Monsignor Michael Bartmann, praised the recent buffoonery in the Archdiocese of Munich, according to the 'Münchner Merkur'.
He claimed that with the one-legged table there is "more room" for the liturgy, even though the distances are the same as with the previous altar.
By removing the previous table, the Baroque altar is supposedly at a "better advantage." But this would have been achieved better, cheaper, and liturgically correct to have just not even put in the "bar table".
Monsignor Bartmann had to admit that the faithful protested the construction of the table.
As expected, the 'Münchner Merkur' hides this story under the table.
The priest thanked the Archbishop's financial appeal, which collected the bulk of the renovation costs of 40,000 euros.
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