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Is it wrong of me to laugh? And then to watch again and laugh again? ?
And watch again and laugh again? And again?
“Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.”
Oh how horrible! I hope he’s alright. What an awful fall that seemed to be.
It is a catastrophe for priests/bishops to imagine they are supposed to be entertaining. Catholics who boast about how funny their priest is have helped create this monster.
I SWEAR I saw a foot of an angel trip him!
Play stupid liturgical games.
Win stupid liturgical prizes.
Very symbolic! Lo, the foolish man putteth vanity before his eyes and seeth not the way that leadeth to destruction. There’s probably a Bible verse to that effect somewhere. Pride or in this case , chocolate egg, goeth before a fall. I hope the egg is all right.
Perhaps Father was demonstrating the downfall of diluting the sacred with the secular.
When I see these kinds of ‘things’……all I can think of is the poor persecuted Chinese Catholics that have to go to their masses in secret. They want the mass and the true presence, while some in the west wants entertainment and fun-feel good times at mass. How sad.
You said the guy was visiting from Libville.
Aren’t there canonical cenures for stealing your own bishop’s midday snack and parading it through a church in another diocese?
Was that real? That fall seemed staged. Anyway, real or not – what a farce.
They put Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar in a light fixture….
stupid is as stupid does.
nothing like a good face plant to instill some humility, though I doubt it will help in the long run, nothing will help his type
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Liturgical abuses are hazardous to your health — both spiritual and physical!
I think his Angel might have pushed him for his gross irreverence.
Yes. Staged. Reason? Better we know not.
I believe that fall was staged. I’ve watched it numerous times. The priest does not miss his footing on the steps. His feet do not catch in his alb. No one else in the sanctuary looks shocked and no one goes to his aide. I suppose they needed one way to break the Easter egg up into pieces.
Fr Z. Gaetano’s comment deserves your Gold Star of the Day! Genius!
Gee I just had a flashback to my days as an altar boy in the early 1980s.
One priest my brother and I served with regularly for some reason didn’t like bells. At least once or twice when the Sanctus began he would look over at both of us and silently mouth “no bells” over to both of us. Yeah that was a difficult time for the Church but I was oblivious to it back then.
Interesting enough our homily at this years Easter Vigil (a few nights ago) our pastoral administrator spoke about why we need bells and why they are important. At midnight during the wee hours our parish rang the bell (we have a bell tower) for the first time since the day before the Tridium began. Our pastoral administrator said if the neighbors complained that was the neighbors problem.
O felix culpa
I wasn’t able to attend a TLM on Easter Sunday, so at the NO I was able to witness the priest and deacon have a little staged water fight in front of the altar after they finished sprinkling the congregation. It got lots of chuckles, which is obviously what you want when celebrating the Lord’s resurrection.
Was that a big pack of pride he was carrying? Pride goeth before the fall . . .
I am sure this will upset Bishop McButterpants, likely his Ordinary. Everybody is supposed to be happy, all of the time. Let us know how he is doing after the Easter Triduum, we are worried about him, especially how he handled the “stress” of the ceremonies.
Well, someone got their just desserts.
Is it wrong that I’m playing it on loop?
Was that Father Curley? Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk….