From Eccles is Saved
Inspired by an offering from Patrick Coffin, I want to run a World Cup of Liturgical Abuses (either by the priest or the people). To make it interesting I only want people to vote for abuses that they have actually experienced (e.g. most of us have led sheltered lives, and missed out on clown masses), although it will be a lucky reader who has not come across any of the ones in my list.
So far we have the following contestants, but nominations of others are invited in the next week, either via the comments below or replying to @bruveccles on Twitter.
Ready?
Liturgical dancing
Female altar-servers
Communion in the hand
Clowns
Puppets
Sign of peace
"Let's not!"
Holding hands in the Our Father
Orans position for the Our Father
Standing for the consecration
Bad hymns (Schutte, Haugen etc.)
Introducing ourselves to our neighbours
Idols
Clapping
Reading out Vatican II documents
Changing words in the liturgy
Guitars
Balloons
Of course, you may actually like some/all of these, but that is not my problem.
The voting on Twitter will begin on Monday 25th May, once next week's exciting Laudato Si' celebrations (to be the subject of a future post?) have died down and everyone has sobered up again.
Incidentally, I think I have seen eight of the above. Can anyone beat that?
I've seen fourteen. I could tell you stories. I'll write some of them at Eccles blog. Finally, almost 40 years after my return to the Church, I found traditional Latin Masses, which I attend regularly. I pretty much stay away now from what Mother Angelica called, The Electric Church—because every time you go, you get a shock.
ReplyDeleteI've had 11 altogether. Not sure about liturgical dancing being the 12th. Maybe I burnt that from my mind.
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