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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ouch ... not even God the Mother and Father of us
all has thought to bring this sort of thing to Umtata, where the audience at the
cathedral self-communicates by intinction from the chalice on the
altar.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You'll have to allow images to load to see them ...
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>God bless,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=""><A
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Mass ever ?</A></DIV></H2>
<DIV style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.5em">via <A class=f
href="http://closedcafeteria.blogspot.com/">The Cafeteria Is Closed</A> by
Gerald Augustinus on 1/28/08</DIV><BR style="DISPLAY: none"><A
href="http://cathcon.blogspot.com/2008/01/oh-what-circus-oh-what-show.html">Via
CathCon</A>, who never fails to find such atrocities. From the cathedral of Auch
in France come these screenshots of a televised Mass. What the hell this is
supposed to be, who knows. It makes matters worse that they dragged children
into this stupidity. Remember, it was the French bishops who had the biggest
aversion against the Motu proprio.<BR><BR>Just how utterly DERANGED does one
have to be to come up with such an idea ? Televised, to make matters even worse.
What was the idea - "Two-for-one ! Get the gym class and Mass combo!" Nothing
says Christ is Lord like gigantic inflated balls in church, I guess.<BR><BR><A
href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AiM_qVeVUEY/R54zonRjTSI/AAAAAAAACuY/netcGQMJDOE/s1600-h/circ.jpg"><IMG
style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt=""
src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AiM_qVeVUEY/R54zonRjTSI/AAAAAAAACuY/netcGQMJDOE/s400/circ.jpg"
border=0></A><BR><A
href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AiM_qVeVUEY/R54zo3RjTTI/AAAAAAAACug/nyGMFl8ddbY/s1600-h/circ1.jpg"><IMG
style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt=""
src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_AiM_qVeVUEY/R54zo3RjTTI/AAAAAAAACug/nyGMFl8ddbY/s400/circ1.jpg"
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href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AiM_qVeVUEY/R54zpXRjTUI/AAAAAAAACuo/Fr1m5RvLBX4/s1600-h/circ3.jpg"><IMG
style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt=""
src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_AiM_qVeVUEY/R54zpXRjTUI/AAAAAAAACuo/Fr1m5RvLBX4/s400/circ3.jpg"
border=0></A><BR><A
href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AiM_qVeVUEY/R54zpnRjTVI/AAAAAAAACuw/bSAOAPyDymI/s1600-h/circ6.jpg"><IMG
style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt=""
src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_AiM_qVeVUEY/R54zpnRjTVI/AAAAAAAACuw/bSAOAPyDymI/s400/circ6.jpg"
border=0></A><BR><BR>Comment by a priest responsible for this:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>Many told me of their wonder: a cathedral enlightened as never
before! Young people of Pop Circus moving about with a lot of grace and
solemnity (for which we even earned the praise of the producer of the
broadcast of the "Day of the Lord" Brother Arnaud de Coral, who was somewhat
stressed at the outset by the idea of integrating "circus" into the liturgy).
We all have preconceived notions and the circus is actually just not clowning
around… And then with André de Lavenère and Damien Supiot as presiders, there
were no worries… The movements of the students from Pop Circus melted
naturally into the action of grace celebrated in the magnificent jewellery box
which is our cathedral.</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>