As they say on the chan sites, "I'll just leave this here."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_Puppet_Theater

I saw them in the opening ceremony video, but hadn't seen any video of the Mass.

I'm going to adopt "Flying Fish Puppets!!" as my new curse-phrase.

wow

I've just figured it out, Kathy: it's Christ the ichthus! All those 70s bumper stickers, alluding to the early-church symbol, right?

Now, what are they singing: is it a setting of the entrance chant?

who are all the unvested lay people in the procession?

Anyone else note the lack of active participation on the part of the congregation?

Dear God, what WAS that? WHY was that?

This is why I'm not a liturgical pacifist, by the way. People keep (bleep)ing with the Liturgy for ridiculous reasons, and with all the aesthetic sophistication of a Cursillo skit.

I think it represents, no, better yet, CELEBRATES the fact that much of what emerged at VII sounds, smells and looks fishy!

I know this is a tangent that will probably be blacklisted from the forum, but I just purchased plasticsquirtingfish.com. Wonder if it's all an inspiration from above?

OK, yea, I'm being a little FISHetiuos! Ha!

I'm seein' one red fish. Were there more later? Are there more fish designs on the banners?
I wonder if the people from the "fisheaters" web site were in attendance.

There's a red fish, a yellow fish, and a red and yellow fish. The filioque? I just. Don't. Want. To. Know.

Evidently, the people who run the shrine don't enforce any standards. What is that "piece" they are singing as they process? I didn't recognize it.

http://www.giamusic.com/search_details.cfm?title_id=22092

Thanks! I think I will stay with "O God Our Help in Ages Past." Processional kites? That's a new one to me.

Ben, we obviously need to get out more often. LOL.

The kites could come in handy during the Canon as flabella.

The only thing missing is the sister playing something upbeat on the guitar, and you'd have my childhood.

I really thought we had progressed beyond all that nonsense. Evidently not.

There is nothing more ridiculous than old people trying to prove how hip and with it they are. All the kids do is snicker at them.

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish........wait....let's talk about tweedle beetles.......

+1 Adam

To look at this from an uncheeky perspective--when we (thems there, thems here) look at stuff like this, what do we/they SEE versus what either they think they see or want to see?
Swimming away from this flying fish (whoa!) I'd like to share that over at PTB in one of the WYD article boxes some wag retorted with the old cannard about "Burke and his cappa magna" yet for the thousandth time, and how many could have been fed for its cost. That's so passe over there now that it didn't get much traction. And I certainly wasn't going there.

But knowing just the briefest history of the cope and cappa, I looked at a clip of some Mass where the cardinal was processing into the sanctuary trailed by the cappa and it suddenly dawned upon me what I was SEEING was the Faithful gathered, awash in the blood of the Lamb of the sacrifice. The realization hit me just as powerfully as did the TLM in the second Duquesne colloquium when I was sick and just was a PiP. I was seeing beyond the veil, beyond the physics of eyesight, and into the very mind of God. I'm saying "As I SAW IT." It was perfect as it was sublime. There was no doubt, no confusion, no other possible image as my being took in a human action in vesture of human making literally transformed into the paschal mysteries.

Here's the rub about what we see in that video. I don't care about FACP in either of its meanings by those folks there. I don't care about their bellicose whatever the heck piece the choir, organ, tympani and brass were blasting, I don't care about that flying V of a cantor at the raised epistle ambo. What I do care about is that these banners and symbols will always remain as nebulae to the eye, or if you will- just eye candy literally. No one's mentioned that the other banners have the NPM logo at shoulders' height. Why "NPM?" Why not "INRI," a Jerusalem cross, a chi ro? Why not the flag of the Vatican? Did the faithful at this Mass not know they were at the NPM national? Or is the NPM brand necessary to promote the activity that is to come we normally associate with the Cross and Corpus iconographically?

Why is there such a total loss of humility and any sense of the sober deliberation of all our human arts, from the reception and transcription of the Divine Word to the environment to the movements and postures, that are then dreamt up "ANEW" which is progressive-speak for "let's reinvent the wheel." I have to think that even Oosterhuis and Schillebecxk (sp?) would be thinking "Huh?"

If these 3K folks are buying these "replacement players" as the genuine article in the practice of their faith, I'll have no part of it other than to send Paul Ford money for having a booth and a voice in this obvious wildnerness.

Isn't all this discussion of kites sort of a red herring?

Flying bird kites are popular in our Episcopal diocesan and general convention liturgies, but I see them as part of a wrongheaded "clean slate" approach that seeks to develop something completely new, rather than let the fact that so many of us are gathered there be what makes the liturgy special.

Best convention liturgy ever was one in which no kites nor other "special-event" gimmicks were employed but a beloved familiar congregational Mass setting used (Willan's SMM), and the congregational singing blew the roof off (not literally, but close).

Here's where one of the fish almost got its tail flippers singed by the Paschal Candle: http://youtu.be/lEXmDC6cYOg?t=12m47s

Apparently the fish respond to that particular song, much like dementors go after Harry Potter.

And by the way- The fake vestments being worn in that video are not a helpful form of activism for the cause of female ordination.

-------
"But Adam- what form of activism WOULD be helpful?"

Prayer.

Seriously Adam, try harder. Culbreth's a tough read, but he makes damn more sense than those banners and kites.
It's too bad your generation never had the chance to read Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey so they could then read Heller, Updike, Vidal and Mailer.
I was very much trying to be cogent.
Do we always have to either Strunk and White everything now, or "boil it down to bytes?"
Cr*p!