So, if you think your Liturgy is bad [pictures & video]

Musings of an ExPagan ^ | 5/26/2005 | John

[franky]

What a shame. I worked at 71 Broadway for a few years while going to college. I and a few others would, on occassion, it in the cemetary area having a sandwich at lunch. Of course most of the time we sat on the Federal Building steps just a block away at Broad and Wall. The first few rows have signs on them indicating the pew where Wasshington and rest sat. Where I worked at 71 Broadway was the original site of Columbia University. The Church is surrounded by Rector St, Broadway and Trinity Place. Picture is from their site. George Washington and Jefferson must turn in their graves to see this. It was the Church they attended services at while the Government was in New York. Washington was sworn in at the same Federal Building

[franky]

Yes, and I remember the pastor being inundated with emails and guest book signings that he had to close the guest book. I would be surprised if he had another fiasco.

[SerpentDove]

Some people think clowns are funny. To me, clowns are scary. I think it all goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.

- Jack Handy

[Aggie Mama]

OMG. She looks like she is about to belly dance.

With regards to the clowns--clowns are evil. I hate clowns. I can't believe someone thought it would be a great idea to mix clowns and the Body of Christ. Just another way to trivialize the Real Presence. =(

[fortunecookie]

Aaaah, the clown mass. I wish I'd had a photo of the 'liturgical dance' at Mass on the Feast of the Assumption a few years ago. If you've seen the 'Grecian Urn' dance in The Music Man, then you've seen this liturgical dance. Ugh.

[fortunecookie]

OMG, I thought the clown Mass was offensive. It's hard to believe this is a real Mass! It isn't in so many ways, but it seems the perpetrators thought so! Who's brain storm was this? More goddess crap...

[Prod Convert]

Nearby is J.P. Morgan's "private" Episcopal church. St. John the Divine, up close to Columbia, looks like some kind of radical feminist and liberation theology museum these days. It does have a fine chapel of St. Michael the Archangel in honor of the military, police, and firemen I used to like to visit (when I was still an Episcopalian). The best Episcopal church in NYC is St. Thomas on Fifth Avenue. There is an associated boy's church choir school, it has the finest liturgical music and processionals, and is veddy High Church.
Grace Cathedral in SF is now dominated by the homosexuals. Their maze (which I have walked as a pre-Catholic) is New Age.
St. Mark's in Seattle has male and female homosexual clergy now, and a great choir - mostly homosexuals.
I don't know why all the Olde blueblood WASPs of the East Coast remain loyal to the Episcopal Church, in its present degraded state. Somebody ought to bring this up with Bush Sr. and Barbara.

[fortunecookie]

Supposed Catholic places are using the labyrinth, too. It's funny how these same folks will scoff at the notion of the Rosary as old-fashioned or repetitive, but circling the labyrinth and meditating is somehow not.

[fortunecookie]

Oh, my, I just got the link to work (my computer). Unbelievable. Clowns are so creepy.

[fortunecookie]

All we need then, are dixie cups for the kool aid!

[anonymoussierra]

I can not good friend I can not!!!!!!Good G-D help this persons this persons do not know Thank you

[AnAmericanMother]

I wish I'd had a photo of the 'liturgical dance' at Mass on the Feast of the Assumption a few years ago. If you've seen the 'Grecian Urn' dance in The Music Man, then you've seen this liturgical dance. Ugh.

The thing about "liturgical dancers" is that they are FAILED dancers. They are folks who can't get a gig anywhere else. They impose on the naivete and ignorance of the priests who allow them to perform.

My mom has been a professional dancer and teacher for 50 plus years . . . I'm not built for the job but I do serious folk dancing (ex-competitive Highland Dancer and Scottish Country Dance exhibition team) and I know good dance when I see it.

I've been watching these idiots prance around various altars for years, and I can confidently say that I have never seen one that was actually a good dancer.

[AnAmericanMother]

Oh, I almost forgot . . .

[murphE]

Let's not forget Cardinal Mahony's show:

2005 Religious Education Congress Photos

Shake, shake, shake, Senora, shake your body line
Shake, shake, shake, Senora, shake it all the time
Work, work, work, Senora, work your body line
Work, work, work, Senora, work it all the time

My girl's name is Senora
I tell you friends, I adore her
And when she dances, oh brother!
She's a hurricane in all kinds of weather

(Jump in de line, rock your body in time) OK, I believe you!
(Jump in de line, rock your body in time) OK, I believe you!
(Jump in de line, rock your body in time) OK, I believe you!
(Jump in de line, rock your body in time) Whoa!
Harry Belafonte

[murphE]

And then there's the puppet masses: