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Dear Apologists,
This Advent, our parish Priest took to bringing a (live!!) chicken into the Church every week - he called it the ‘Christmas Chicken’ and said that it represented ‘the spirit of Christmas’ (whatever that has to do with saying Mass I don’t know!!). He insisted that each week in Advent during intercessions one prayer was directed NOT TO GOD but to the ‘Christmas Chicken’, which was allowed to wander freely around the altar during Mass, that we all feel ‘wonderfully Christmassy happy’ during Advent. I tried to address the matter with the Priest directly, but he simply implied I was being a spoilsport. Was I right to think that there was something amiss here? What further action should I take, if any?
I should say that I am new at my Parish, and don’t necessarily feel terribly comfortable confronting the Priest directly.
Yours in Christ.
This Advent, our parish Priest took to bringing a (live!!) chicken into the Church every week - he called it the ‘Christmas Chicken’ and said that it represented ‘the spirit of Christmas’ (whatever that has to do with saying Mass I don’t know!!). He insisted that each week in Advent during intercessions one prayer was directed NOT TO GOD but to the ‘Christmas Chicken’, which was allowed to wander freely around the altar during Mass, that we all feel ‘wonderfully Christmassy happy’ during Advent. I tried to address the matter with the Priest directly, but he simply implied I was being a spoilsport. Was I right to think that there was something amiss here? What further action should I take, if any?
I should say that I am new at my Parish, and don’t necessarily feel terribly comfortable confronting the Priest directly.
Yours in Christ.