This Crucifix was gifted to us by St. John Neuman Church of Knoxville

This enabled the Risen Christ to be repositioned as shown

The big cross with corpus was renovated by parishioner artist Norma Riegle

George Golightly goes up to locate the anchor points

Juan Hernandez and George make the final preparations

All is ready. The cross weighs 170 Lbs

The Team: Tom Witt, George, Gene Teeple, Juan and Jonathon Golightly.

Father John gives a big signal -- the best position has been reached.

These changes bring Our Lady of Fatima into conformity with the requirement of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) that there is to be "a cross, with the figure of Christ crucified upon it, either on the altar or near it, where it is clearly visible to the assembled congregation"

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