The Credo, a key part of the Mass.
Well, Father F (or Z, or R, or whoever you are), there are various ways in which priests can focus the attention of the congregation onto themselves, and away from the Almighty (who, after all, gets quite a lot of attention already). For example, in 1937, Harold Davidson, the former Rector of Stiffkey, displayed himself in a cage with a lion called Freddie, which eventually killed him. So, dear Father P (or B), we don't recommend this strategy. Similarly, liturgical bullfighting, even in the Malaga area, is still at an experimental stage, and is not yet a standard part of modern worship.
Warning: lions are like bishops - they bite!
No, the future definitely lies in dancing. It started with liturgical can-cans, and continued with Kate Bottley, the dancing vicar, now hotly tipped to be the first female bishop in the church of England. Dancing has now been taken up by those Catholic priests who find the general idea of worshipping God a little too dull.
Sursum Genua (Let's have a knees-up!)
Let's conclude with another picture of the man they call Fr Pepe: note the quiet dignity which which he explains the hermeneutic of continuity in the context of Pope Benedict's 2005 speech to the Roman Curia, firmly rejecting the hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture that has upset so many orthodox Catholics.
Take your partners for the Agnus Dei!
We are not sure who the lady in yellow biting her nails is: probably just an altar server modelling the latest in hot-weather vestments.
Dear Sir,
ReplyDeleteYou would not go to Malaga to see liturgical bullfighting at its best but to Pamplona. See photo below. Here a liturgical bull is used in the offertory, but still the congregation tends to hide rather than put 25 centimos in the collection.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02967/Pamplona_cowering__2967676k.jpg
Yours etc..,
Ferdinand Mass-Trousers
Knees up, Fr Brown. Knees up Fr Brown...
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