Life Teen liturgy question

[Tallow]

We went to our Good Friday service last night. It started as usual, but the reading of the Passion according to John was a “performance” by the Life Teen group. Two dozen or so teenagers scurried about the altar while the priest waved his arms, obviously serving as a sort of stage manager. He took no direct part in the readings. The part of Jesus was read (at a shout) by one of the teens, all of whom were clothed in period robes. There were three or four intermissions during which John Michael Talbot style religious folk songs were played over the PA. Altogether, it was a thoroughly disconcerting, shocking kind of thing.

Is this licit? Of course, the Passion service is not a Mass, but it’s still a liturgy and it presumably has rules, doesn’t it?

 

[m134e5]

That is illicit and VERY irreverent. The passion is to be read by the priest (as Jesus) and some other people as pilate and the centurion and what not, and the congregation as the crowd.

Michael

 

[Ignatius]

Tallow:

We went to our Good Friday service last night. It started as usual, but the reading of the Passion according to John was a “performance” by the Life Teen group. Two dozen or so teenagers scurried about the altar while the priest waved his arms, obviously serving as a sort of stage manager. He took no direct part in the readings. The part of Jesus was read (at a shout) by one of the teens, all of whom were clothed in period robes. There were three or four intermissions during which John Michael Talbot style religious folk songs were played over the PA. Altogether, it was a thoroughly disconcerting, shocking kind of thing.

Is this licit? Of course, the Passion service is not a Mass, but it’s still a liturgy and it presumably has rules, doesn’t it?

Sounds completely illicit.