I was telling my sister about this and she said I don't know why you are complaining because we did a clown mass at my Search weekend. Of course my sister is a Methodist now and I have returned to the Roman Catholic Church. All I can say is thank goodness I didn't participate in Search when I was in high school. I thought the teens involved in that were a bit snobby.
Ugh! I haven't thought about Search in a long time! Bad memories. A "Search weekend" was required for all confirmation candidates in my diocese when I was a teenager and it was horrible. I didn't think I would be able to get through it. They had a "nun" who looked kind of like a hippie folk singer who played a guitar and told us there were no guardian angels and it went down hill from that. It was the silliest, most un-Catholic mess!!!!