Passion Plays

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Hey everyone. i was just wondering whose church has a passion play on good friday. i am involved with mine every year. it is the youth who always do it. we oerform it as the gospel on Good Friday. Anyone else do this, or got o a church that has them? and do you like them or not? i enjoy doing it, and most people come oup to me and tell me they are glad we did it. thoughts anyone?
 
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Hey everyone. i was just wondering whose church has a passion play on good friday. i am involved with mine every year. it is the youth who always do it. we oerform it as the gospel on Good Friday. Anyone else do this, or got o a church that has them? and do you like them or not? i enjoy doing it, and most people come oup to me and tell me they are glad we did it. thoughts anyone?
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At our kids school, the fourth graders have a passion play. It is very moving!
 
Maple Baptist Church with cooperation from other churches in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada does a really awesome Passion Play. The play starts at downtown Georgetown and goes down Main Street and up Maple to Calvary (The Baptist Church paking lot). They have Romans on horseback, weeping women and is very moving indeed. Anyone in the area of Georgetown I suggest you to go see it.

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One of the most moving and impressive Passion plays I have ever seen is one from Mexico city on the district of Iztapalapa.There are more than 800 actors,all are members of the community.It is very moving.I think that’s the biggest and most famous Passion play in Mexico.Back there home in Spain,there are processions all Holy Week,there are Passion plays too,but I think,the most famous Holy Week celebration in all Spain is from Sevilla.🙂
 
Greetings again friends in Christ! I would just like to get your opinions on a particular topic. In my home parish on Palm Sunday and Good Friday during the Gospel, members of our church youth participate in a Passion Play replacing the reading of the Gospel. I don’t agree with this at all, because it seems that the Mass is becoming entertainment. Comments appreciated.
 
Hi Kerytat,
I am registered in a parish that also puts on a passion play in place of the gospel.The youth are dressed as mimes, they enter the church dancing with ribbons on sticks, and things go downhill from there. Of course someone is narrating (reading a script) but the gospel itself is not read, nor does the priest participate. To me, this is entertainment, not Holy Mass. I don’t know if it’s sanctioned or not, but I didn’t like it, and I no longer go to that church. Hopefully you too will find a parish that is not trying to outdo God’s Word.
 
So many things I see here are the direct result of protestant influence in the US–individual bell ringing, holding hands, the orans posture, general praise or contemporary Christian singing accompanied by inappropriate instruments in an inappropriate style, and now a play taking the place of the gospel/sermon. Of course, the idea of a verse hymn in the vernacular with modern metrics or a modern style hymn with or without metrics is originally protestant and putatively has never had a proper place in Catholic worship either.

They replaced the passion with a play performed by children. Appalling. There is no other word for it.

Ironically, some protestant churches, including one I was exposed to for a number of years, have seriously considered adopting a Catholic custom. Unfortunately, it is the worst modern liturgical custom they could possibly contemplate: Using an individual cantor singing into a micropone as a song leader.
 
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