Late at night great ideas besiege me. I write them down, and the next morning I try to decipher what I meant or why I though these were good ideas. Here goes:
1. You have heard of the U2charist. How about the Gagocharist? Design a service around the music and style of Lady Gaga. Just imagine wearing a disco ball as a biretta with a meat covered chasuble, singing “Bad Romance” with the organ, and preaching about lack of connection and communication using the video from “Telephone.” I think that we might have a winner.
2. How about using a chocolate-chocolate chip muffin for the bread and a café au lait for the wine at the Holy Eucharist? Edgy and delicious. In fact, each Sunday the priest could select a different awesome bread/ pastry product for the bread and warm delicious beverage (think hot cocoa) for the wine. The Body and Blood of Christ never tasted better!
3. Look for a dramatic rendering of the Last Supper during Holy Communion- wait, I actually suggested this to my liturgy professor in seminary and she tried to hit me after I said it.
4. Move the altar to the entrance of the church so everyone has to turn around in their pews to see what is going on- annoying and unexpected. Innovation for the sake of innovation.
Maybe I just need to take a shot of whiskey and fall asleep instead.
Interesting. . .do what needs to be done to keep the focus on Christ. I'm sure that he wouldn't disapprove.
ReplyDeleteThis brought memories of the 1979 General Convention, when I was assistant to what was then the church's National Hunger Office. There wasn't one big opening Eucharist that year; instead, each group was invited to have their own. We arranged ours for one of the hotel ballrooms, only the hotel forgot we had asked for bread and wine to be used and that morning there was a scramble to scrounge what we needed. The wine wasn't really a problem, but the bread the hotel came up with turned out to be onion rolls. I was administering the chalice, and I still remember how hard it was not to laugh at the expressions on communicants faces when they popped their little morsel of Jesus in their mouths ...
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