G-L-O-R-I-A! Innnnn excelsis deo....

[captainsblog]

So as we headed to our own church this morning, I saw the Presbies on the way there were doing their own service this morning by using the Mozart Mass in C Major.  I duly commented on this to Emily as we drove by.

"What do you mean, a 'Mozart Mass' in church?"

Since sacred music has been all but PC'd out of the public schools, I explained that some of the greatest compositions of all time were musical settings of the traditional Catholic worship and communion service. I likened them to Handel's Messiah (although that doesn't follow mass format). "It would have been real hard for them to serve the Eucharist to that full a house at the Basilica anyway," I added.

Until I got thinking about it.



"I suppose they could distribute the Host using t-shirt cannons."

You! In the back row! The Body of Christ, given for yooooooooo- duck!"

Emily, bless her (or more to the point, forgive her) got right in on the riff.

"And for the wine, they could use hoses!"

This seemed a bit extreme, so I thought the Celebrant could just light the Christ Candle and hold it up to one of the sprinkler-system head links, gently dousing the Blood of the New Covenant on the parishioners through the pipes in the ceiling.

"And when the Fire Department came, that'd remind everybody that they're all going to hell!"

Well, me, at least.

Later on, I suggested a Lenten addition to the liturgy: at the moment of Judas's betrayal of Our Lord, display it in the Heavens for all to see.



Just keep me away from Nixon when I go. That's all I ask.

Comments

[glenmarshall.livejournal.com]

ROFL

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

I have to say, on Palm Sunday when our priest sprinkles us with Holy water while waving a palm branch, he might as well be using a hose! He REALLY gets into it!!