In case you thought the carnival was over...
  • Scott_WScott_W
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    The bishops play "Simon says" with guy in desperate need of swirlie.

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  • Kathy
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    I think this was the planned, announced, flash mob.

    The guy who needs a swirlie is what is known as an "animator." Yes, that is a thing.
  • melofluentmelofluent
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    "Oh, Kathy, give it a rest, put on your sequin pumps and get widda paahhhr-tay!" says the little red guy with a tail sitting on your left shoulder.
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  • matthewjmatthewj
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJTBfbQoTNk
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  • Kathy
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    Up with Catholics!
  • expeditus1
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    Haven't people figured out yet that if you're looking for a good party time, the secular world does it sooo much better? When the Church tries to "get down with it," it puts the corn in "corny."
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  • CharlesW
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    Take our bishops - please!
  • Ioannes Andreades
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    munus ineptiendi
  • SkirpRSkirpR
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    Haven't people figured out yet that if you're looking for a good party time, the secular world does it sooo much better? When the Church tries to "get down with it," it puts the corn in "corny."


    I think that was the point. I for one was glad they we were willing to look a little corny in this kind of situation. As long as it wasn't happening during the liturgy, I see no problem with this. It's like putting the pastor, school principal, music director, etc. in the dunk-tank to raise money for a worthy cause.
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  • expeditus1
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    Are the bishops singing, "I'm Bringing Corny Back!" while they perform their lame choreography?

    Regal? Not so much.
  • francis
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    Entertainment? Give me a glass of wine and a Claude Bolling recording.
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  • chonakchonak
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    Well, that was vibrant, wasn't it?
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  • JulieCollJulieColl
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    Alas, it would appear that yesterday's video was a warm-up for the real thing. Fr. Z. reports that bishops and priests in full liturgical garb were rockin' and rollin' on Copacabana Beach as a preparation for Mass.

    Sure hope they don't take their episcopal 'Sister Act' on the road . . .
  • SkirpRSkirpR
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    Again, it was before Mass.
  • Scott_WScott_W
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    I see no problem with this. It's like putting the pastor, school principal, music director, etc. in the dunk-tank to raise money for a worthy cause.


    Only if the pastor, school principal, music director, etc. don't already look like this most of the time.

    Also, is this really going to be the call from now on? "Hey as long as it is just right before Mass or afterwards, our religious can look like disgraceful self-parodies all they want!" It's like junior-high school when the teacher steps out of the room and it's a spitball war. "Stop guys! Here comes the 'In the name of the Father...' everyone look busy and serious now!"
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  • CharlesW
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    Do you remember when those who held clerical office thought there was something special about what they did? When they saw themselves as set aside for the service of God in his temple? When they did not try to be everyone's best buddy? When they realized that the liturgy was life or death? Good old days? Perhaps, but definitely a different mindset.
    Thanked by 4KARU27 expeditus1 noel jones, aago R J Stove
  • JulieCollJulieColl
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    Sorry, SkirpR for the duplicate! I thought it was yesterday's video that you had up there.
    I'm a bit discombobulated by all this stuff. : )
  • G
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    When we were married, Himself and I joked about each of us telling our respective families, "Oh, I'm sorry but the Catholics/Lutherans from North Dakota/Arizona insist on having goats as part of the ceremony...."
    (And Himself had never read Brideshead.)
    Any chance something like that happened here - the Bishops are being punked?
    “Oh, Mummy, who could have dreamed he’d swallow it? I told him such a lot besides. About the sacred monkeys in the Vatican — all kinds of things.”
    (Save the Liturgy, Save the World)
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  • chonakchonak
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    It's a youth rally: the bishops are playing along with the youth by putting up with the same indignities to which the youth are subjected.
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  • GavinGavin
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    Solidarity.
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  • Scott_WScott_W
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    Great quote from a comboxer at Mark Shea's blog:

    As a military officer, there were activities that I would engage in while in civilian clothing that I would never do while in uniform. That's because while in uniform, it's not about me but about my office and maintaining a level of dignity and decorum for that office because it doesn't belong to me.
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