Puppet Mass Redux...The Alienated Jesus

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chicago said:
Next week at Mass… Father celebrates Liturgy by spotlight. All you shall see is the shadow puppets he makes with his hands via the secret gestures they taught in seminary projected upon the Sanctuary wall.
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So of course, Father will make bunnies…
 
Bunnies was on Easter Sunday. I understand that this Sunday we will likely see doves.
 
It looked more like a pagan ritual or a Brazilian carnival. How can these people think that God intended His Church to be like this?
 
Cavaille-Coll said:
It looked more like a pagan ritual or a Brazilian carnival. How can these people think that God intended His Church to be like this?
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Which is why we are making the puppet wisecracks, and why people can’t access the CTA web site.😃
 
VociMike said:
They called it a “Vatican II liturgy” Wonder if this is what the council fathers had in mind.
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Some people are sooooo poor in obedience but plenty of craaaaazy imaginations!:o

These people need true conversion- pray for them.
 
Cavaille-Coll said:
It looked more like a pagan ritual or a Brazilian carnival. How can these people think that God intended His Church to be like this?
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Perhaps this is what Carnivale celebrations will look like at the retirement homes in ten years.

I wonder how much the few younger people who were singing and offering other services insisted on getting paid to be part of this.
 
chicago said:
Perhaps this is what Carnivale celebrations will look like at the retirement homes in ten years.

I wonder how much the few younger people who were singing and offering other services insisted on getting paid to be part of this.
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:rotfl:

Tim, Tim,Tim!
 
Fr. Timothy Finnigan has been making fun of this all week on the “The Hermeneutic of Continuity” blog. Apparently, shortly after viewing this “Mr. Potato-head Mass” he went to dinner with another priest and anxiously eyed the bowl of potatoes, wondering if his friend planned on concelebrating Mass with one of them.

Fr. Z added that his worst fear was one of one of these puppets breaking into his private chapel and trying to read Deacon or Subdeacon for him–or, as it were, Spuddeacon.
 
At the time that I post this, the links apparently have created problems for their web hosting service. None of the links work. Look at the CTA home page. The site has been suspended by the web host.

ctanorcal.org/

At the time I post this message, this is all that is displayed. A generic web page with the following statement.
Your website has been suspended!
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The web hosting account that hosts this website has been blocked due to high bandwidth usage!
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If you are the owner of this website, please login to your hosting Control Panel and order additional traffic quota.
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If you are a visitor to this website, please access this page later.
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This website is hosted by lonex.com.
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I saw the video and such last week. Beyond shameful.
 
rpp said:
At the time that I post this, the links apparently have created problems for their web hosting service. None of the links work. Look at the CTA home page. The site has been suspended by the web host.

ctanorcal.org/

At the time I post this message, this is all that is displayed. A generic web page with the following statement.

I saw the video and such last week. Beyond shameful.
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We, the members of the CAF have given them more web traffic than they are used to. 😃 And inadvertently brought their site down. 😃
 
Lepanto said:
We, the members of the CAF have given them more web traffic than they are used to. 😃 And inadvertently brought their site down. 😃
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Not just here, but Catholic World News and Father Z (and probably other outraged Catholics) published an editorial on this and they also included a link.

I think it was unintentional. In a way, it was their own fault. They put a large movie file on their own web site. They would have been better off to put it on YouTube and provide a link to it.
 
rpp said:
Not just here, but Catholic World News and Father Z (and probably other outraged Catholics) published an editorial on this and they also included a link.

I think it was unintentional. In a way, it was their own fault. They put a large movie file on their own web site. They would have been better off to put it on YouTube and provide a link to it.
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So, I take it that this was a mercy killing? 😃 In all seriousness, this is terrible. Not only is this poor taste, but, it is just so horrific on a myriad of levels. It makes the golden calf look like one of those Rankin-Bass Christmas cartoons. :mad:
 
JimR-OCDS said:
I think you folks may be over reacting. First off, it looks like it was done in a conference room at a hotel, rather than a church. Second, its by Call To Action, which is essentially a schismatic org, and the celebrant may not even be an actual priest.

In other words, it wasn’t a Catholic Mass.

Jim
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AMEN!
 
I hope the site comes back up so I can show my DH. Is that a sin? :o
 
I watched the 5 minute UTube video, and I was trying to watch it charitably and find something redeeming. The best I could come up with was that (a) I’ve seen worse liturgical dancing, (b) at least the dancers were decently clothed, and (c) the dancing seemed to evoke the feeling of joyful dancing in praise of God (although I could better envision it in a field of wildflowers praising God for His creation).

As for the Bishop-celebrant, I think he should go for a good physical check-up because there must be a screw loosening somewhere.

Seriously, does anyone here have a clue as to what they were trying to do or prove by this so-called (Sesame Street) Mass?

P.S. Let’s all pray that the Holy Father never sees the video - he’s a great Pope and I would hate for him to have a heart attack while watching it.
 
GemmaRose said:
I watched the 5 minute UTube video, and I was trying to watch it charitably and find something redeeming. The best I could come up with was that (a) I’ve seen worse liturgical dancing, (b) at least the dancers were decently clothed, and (c) the dancing seemed to evoke the feeling of joyful dancing in praise of God (although I could better envision it in a field of wildflowers praising God for His creation).

As for the Bishop-celebrant, I think he should go for a good physical check-up because there must be a screw loosening somewhere.

Seriously, does anyone here have a clue as to what they were trying to do or prove by this so-called (Sesame Street) Mass?

P.S. Let’s all pray that the Holy Father never sees the video - he’s a great Pope and I would hate for him to have a heart attack while watching it.
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The whole purpose wasa to chage the focus of the mass from HIM to 'me"
 
estesbob said:
The whole purpose wasa to chage the focus of the mass from HIM to 'me"
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Is that your opinion or did you get to see their website before it was closed down?

It’s just that I’ve been trying to figure out what on earth possessed anyone that planned that spectacle. :bigyikes:
 
GemmaRose said:
Is that your opinion or did you get to see their website before it was closed down?

It’s just that I’ve been trying to figure out what on earth possessed anyone that planned that spectacle. :bigyikes:
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I saw the video. People we laughing and clapping and having a good old time. Dancers frolicking through the crowd sprinkling the congregation with holy water while huge puppets looked on and waved their oversized hands. They were privileged to be present when the Creator of the Universe arrived in person but were too busy playing to give HIM his due. This mass made the Barney mass look reverential.
 
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