SNL Goes To Church
  • JulieCollJulieColl
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiuYmM0lG6o

    This is pretty silly, but a fairly accurate representation nonetheless.

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  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    It was a goofy hoot, but some of it did ring true.
  • chonakchonak
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    This is a riot.
  • ClergetKubiszClergetKubisz
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    That was funny.
  • ryandryand
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    some of it did ring true
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  • cmb
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    Our lectors didn't tell me they were going to New York this weekend to be on SNL!

    Also, can someone point me to a source for the 44-verse version of "O Come All Ye Faithful"? My copy only has seven.
  • Kathy
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    I believe Matthew J Meloche uses 44 verses at the Phoenix Cathedral. Am I right?
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  • matthewjmatthewj
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    Fo'sho.
  • ClergetKubiszClergetKubisz
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    Right down to the stupid jokes at the homily.
  • MaryAnn Carr WilsonMaryAnn Carr Wilson
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    Yup. Some peoples' idea of active/actual participation starts to look more like a variety show than mass.
    I've know several casts including all those characters!

    That SNL figured it out makes it both cathartic and deeply embarrassing.
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  • JulieCollJulieColl
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    It's ironic that it takes SNL to reveal--- in a surprisingly sympathetic way---the absurdity of the standard form of the Catholic liturgy.
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  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    That was an Episcopal parish, BTW. You could see in one shot the front cover of the Lift Every Voice and Sing hymnal.
  • MaryAnn Carr WilsonMaryAnn Carr Wilson
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    Yeah, it looks like they used an Episcopal church for filming maybe?
    The funnies are unmistakably Catholic.

    Or.... are they????
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    The funnies are unmistakably Catholic.

    Or.... are they????


    I've seen all the same spectacular moments at Episcopal, Methodist, and unspecified churches, including a hilariously adorable Christmas Eve service I once attended with the Protestant family I was Christmasing with, where every single person in my row could have played the organ better than the little old lady who was doing it, including me (I don't play the organ).

    That was the year I attended a non-denom Prot service and then a Catholic Midnight Mass and got to sing "Happy Birthday to Jesus" at BOTH OF THEM.
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  • JulieCollJulieColl
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    . . . which begs the question as to why it is possible that one is not able to distinguish one from the other.
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  • MaryAnn Carr WilsonMaryAnn Carr Wilson
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    Y
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  • Aristotle EsguerraAristotle Esguerra
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    FWIW, one of the SNL writers (and a co-host of "Weekend Update") is an alumnus of a high school run by the Jesuits, an "educated order. I believe they mean well, too".
  • JahazaJahaza
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    When the choir busted out that song, I said to my wife (from my Russian Byzantine Rite/EF bubble), "Well that's an exaggeration." And my wife replied, "No, we sing that at X," where she cantors.
  • RoborgelmeisterRoborgelmeister
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    Okay, there are only eight verses. The English Hymnal had 7, and the Hymnal 1940 & 1982 have six verses. At the hand of an inept organist, six verses could SEEM like 44 verses. A very complete itemization of translations is here:
    http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/o_come_all_ye_faithful.htm
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    Okay, there are only eight verses

    In any single language.
  • vansensei
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    I'm shocked at how... accurate this is. Like, it is bizarrely spot-on. When I used to go to the Novus Ordo, I experienced all these things.
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  • Scott_WScott_W
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    Necro'ed for truth. :)
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