And Over At The Anchoress...
I was going spend some time trolling the Catholic Blogosphere for good stuff to link to, but The Anchoress has saved me the trouble (gracias!).
She also posts this picture of Episcopalians celebrate a Clown Mass:
No wonder The Pontificator is leaving the Episcopal Church and becoming a Catholic.
Ex-Pagan has more pictures and video of this grotesquery (apparently I was not the only one trying to click on this link, because the numbers of the shocked and curious overwhelmed Ex-Pagan's bandwidth).
I've heard about "Clown Masses" but thought/hoped it was some sort of urban legend. I just found it difficult to really believe any sane people would think there was any spiritual/artistic/generic merit to it.
I stand corrected.
How about those Novus Ordo Clown Masses?
a "Clown Mass" that took place in Pleasant Hill, California. ... successfully introduced by the revolutionaries into the Novus Ordo Mass because ...
http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/a015htGoldenCalf1.htm
Ex-NO and SSPX supporter (no clown masses for us!)
Posted by: Cindy | Monday, May 30, 2005 at 12:26 AM
Dang! Look at that woman with the cymbals and the horns in the second row. Does she really look happy? Is the Holy Spirit filling her with joy? Perhaps this Clown Liturgy is just too restrained for her tastes!
Posted by: Papaefidelis | Monday, May 30, 2005 at 09:10 AM
Looks like that clown in the picture is using a pizza crust. Delivery or DiGirono?
Posted by: Roger H. | Monday, May 30, 2005 at 11:11 AM
How absolutely sad. In such a lovely old church with a cemetery next door. The dead must be turning in their graves.
Posted by: Martha | Monday, May 30, 2005 at 11:43 AM
Please pray for Catholics to have the courage to speak out against this travesty that is happening in Catholic Churches all over. Here below is a picture of another Catholic Clown Mass.
http://www.orlandolatinmass.com/orlandodiocese.html
Posted by: Cindy | Monday, May 30, 2005 at 02:37 PM
That picture is disturbing. But when I had to go through a two-year high-school-aged confirmation program at my parish, we did have a "clown para-liturgy" once. It wasn't a Mass. It was an actually entertaining Thursday evening. The clowns acted on the theme of forgiveness.
Posted by: Jesse | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 at 06:35 AM
At least this "clown Mass" is probably not as weird as the "Rave Masses" associated with former San Francisco Bay area Dominican turned Episcopalian priest, Matthew Fox, and his "Creation Spirituality" movement. (Your typical rave is an underground all-night party with wild dancing and drugs.) Lee Penn reported: "Each month, more than 1,200 people attend Fox's 'Techno Cosmic Mass,' held in a former ballroom in Oakland, California..." http://www.episcopalian.org/CCLEC/leepenn-newage.htm
Posted by: Jesse | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 at 06:51 AM
Beyond belief. Not reverent at all. Not what I would go to, and I suspect that hardly anyone else would want to go there either. Are these people crazy?
Posted by: Joe Odegard | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 at 08:50 AM
There is nothing joyful, happy or entertaining about these clowns.
I see blasphomy and sarcasim.
How sad and depressing!
Pray for the Church and it's Truth.
Dorothy
Posted by: DOROTHY | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 at 11:37 AM
Yeah, I prefer my mass sayers to wear frilly dresses and moan in Latin.
Posted by: eamon | Wednesday, June 01, 2005 at 03:27 AM