Some words should just never be put together. Case in point Ecumenical Circus Mass in Monaco. Unfortunately the pictures backup the headline.
I remember as a teenager reading a book by Stanislaw Lem* where as I vaguely remember they would try to make breakthroughs in technology by placing random words together and imagining a technology that the words suggest. I think you could also do the same with liturgical abuses and place random words together and come up with a liturgical abuses that somebody has either already tried and will try in the future.
Christopher at Catholic Church Conservation also has as he say a "little bit of fun" making this video.
*And yes I know that while Stanislaw Lem was an atheist he was also a friend of Karol Wojtyla in Poland and they use to have discussions together.
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Didn’t Lem create the term Robot?
Sadly, the muppets are the ones most appropriately dressed!
Heh. I often refer to goofy “liturgical” music as the “Missa de Muppet”.
Please, please, please tell me that nun wasn’t twirling her bra around her head! I know I’m going to have bad dreams tonight, combining the Mass and flashbacks to “Monsters of Rock” featuring Ted Nugent and The Scorpions.
“Here I am, Lord… rock me like a hurricane!”
Time’s up. All those hippies and 1960s hanger-ons responsible for liturgical aberrations, contortions and blasphemies pick up your “reality cheque” at the door. Feel free (as in, it’s your choice) to stay if you’re prepared to grow up and be responsible laity and priests. Or, if you’re not willing to serve the Lord (versus your libidinous urges), go out into the outer darkness and gnash your teeth some. In any case, no longer burden the Church with your prurient and puerile antics.
Nein Danke indeed!!
Didn’t Lem create the term Robot?
Nope, Capek did.
At least one of those pictures was no liturgical abuse at all. IIRC, the people wearing leis were Pacific islanders attending a canonization ceremony in St. Peter’s. They were waving long white scarves because that’s a Roman tradition at canonization ceremonies to express joy.
And at least one of those pictures was of Episcopalians — including the Presiding Bishop.
Thanks, Maureen! I couldn’t tell what that white thing was or why it was being twirled. 🙂
One of the pictures made me think it was from a World Youth Day, because I remember thinking while there, I want to say Rome, but I’m not 100% sure, that the vestments they gave the priests were ugly and silly looking.