It seems so from the pictures I’ve seen. It is one of those that Benedict refers to as feeling that liturgical innovation was somehow required.If this is the wrong place for this thread, then please by all means, move it to the right place!
Anyway, I hear people making references to a “Clown Mass” What is that? Is there a Mass in which people dress up like clowns!!! :bigyikes: I’m confused!!!
But really I never heard of this.I didn’t believe what a fellow catholic had told me. I thought he was exaggerating when he would talk about terrible abuses of the mass, clown masses, halloween masses with a blessing from Barnie the purple dinosaur. Then I saw them. There have been videos posted on you tube. I don’t even know strong enough words for what I saw: Blasphemy; Travesty? Who but the devil would want to make a joke out of the holy mass?If this is the wrong place for this thread, then please by all means, move it to the right place!
Anyway, I hear people making references to a “Clown Mass” What is that? Is there a Mass in which people dress up like clowns!!! :bigyikes: I’m confused!!!
You should watch the videos.
Oh yes we can. I feel perfectly confident in saying that we should NEVER dress up as clowns for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. EVER. I think this is one universal rule that shouldn’t be too controversial.
Have a link? (YouTube, Google Video, etc…)
First, I doubt the GRIM is explicitly against this. Second, if it was done during the homily and not the Liturgy of Eucharist there should be no problem. I have been around the upper Midwest for masses and have never heard of “Clown Masses”. I only know of Polka masses.
Now I do disagree with this. If the Mass was said for a Clown school as part of their graduation then it would be no different than a Graduation Mass with all graduates in their Caps and Gowns. Or to give a special blessing to the work of the clowns then it could be appropriate to dress in their specific costume and make-up. If we had a Mass for the blessing of our men and women in the Armed Forces you would not object to them coming in Uniform and assisitng at the Altar so don’t object to Clowns whose professional uniform is a costume and make-up.
I will have to disagree with you on several points. There is a line to what is appropriate and what is not. I was once a life guard which is a respectable profession too. You cross the line when you dress up as clowns, witches goblins or whatever.
Not only that but the “clown” mass has the priest dressed as a clown as well.