curtins Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 At a different parish this weekend for palm sunday mass- gospel (passion account) read? nope- acted out by little children. question is- letter to the pastor or right directly to the bishop again- not my parish, not my pastor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brigid Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 haha. kids acting it out? that's... crazy. at my parish, they usually act it out, but they're not this year. I'm hoping the change is permanent... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Our parish went nuts and not only acted it out, they wore costumes. We've got a new pastor, so hopefully that won't happen this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 our parish has it acted out by 8th graders. I mean they did well with it, and i dont want to discredit their efforts but... is it allowed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Bone _ Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 I've never even heard of this. I've seen the Stations of the Cross "acted out", but never the Passion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel's angel Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Get writing! One word.....disgraceful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Autumn Dusk Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 our parish does a good-friday passion play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 I think I would have had a coronary if the passion was acted out by children. I almost did when it was read by my priest, the deacon and some lady. The lady read the words of Christ at the last summer. I kept thinking, this is so wrong. Now, I haven't been to a palm Sunday mass in probably thirty years so I can't really talk about changes but, I don't remember any of this from when I was growing up. I can see the deacons reading with the priest as our priest does have to do three masses himself between Sat and Sunday but, it creeped me out. Maybe it was because the woman read so impassionately, like she was a new announcer talking in slow motion. This isn't going to happen on Easter Vigil is it? I am getting confirmed and I really want to enter into the mass. I couldn't last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissyP89 Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 (edited) This was my first Palm Sunday Mass. I didn't think it was so bad, but I did wonder what the rest of the pham here would have thought. The priest and deacon read the words of Christ and the narration, respectively...the parish read the words of the crowd. We had some lady reading the other people. I agree with you, Deb, she was very dry. At least we didn't have costumes and that craziness. Honestly, I thought it was very respectfully done. Being part of the "crowd" really made it come to life for me. But, of course, that's just my humble opinion. Edit: GOOD GRAVY! One of my atheist friends just sent me an IM. "What are you doing?" I asked. ... "I'm at Mass," he said. "It's so long..." I stopped talking to him. Edited March 16, 2008 by MissyP89 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theologian in Training Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 [quote name='MissyP89' post='1478109' date='Mar 16 2008, 12:36 PM']This was my first Palm Sunday Mass. I didn't think it was so bad, but I did wonder what the rest of the pham here would have thought. The priest and deacon read the words of Christ and the narration, respectively...the parish read the words of the crowd. We had some lady reading the other people. I agree with you, Deb, she was very dry. At least we didn't have costumes and that craziness. Honestly, I thought it was very respectfully done. Being part of the "crowd" really made it come to life for me. But, of course, that's just my humble opinion. [/quote] That is what we did. minus the deacon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archaeology cat Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 I went to the Cathedral today for Mass, and the Passion was sung by 3 cantors, with the rest of the choir speaking as the crowd. I'd never heard it sung before, and it was quite beautiful. The Archbishop sang some of the Mass around the Consecration, but didn't join in with the Passion reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Wow, hearing it sung, that must have been really interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archaeology cat Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 [quote name='CatherineM' post='1478115' date='Mar 16 2008, 03:46 PM']Wow, hearing it sung, that must have been really interesting.[/quote] Yeah, it was. Definitely a new experience for me, and very beautiful. Kieran enjoyed the Mass, too. Unfortunately, I'm afraid he distracted some of the others there, as Kieran tends to squeal when he's happy. But he's cute! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtins Posted March 16, 2008 Author Share Posted March 16, 2008 Typically the passion account is read by a priest and two others (lay or deacons- or I guess priests if they have concelebration) but this passion was not read- it was litterally a play put on- I mean well done the kids were great and all and I would have thoroughly enjoyed it if it were OUTSIDE mass- but the GOSPEL is meant to be PROCLAIMED by an ORDAINED minister Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeniteAdoremus Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Ours was read by our parish priest (the narrator), the chancellor of the diocese, who is a permanent deacon (the people, and all other characters), and our bishop (Jesus). Actually, I took the train back to my home town for it instead of taking a chance at one of the parishes near my university. our (And more coolness: I don't know whether it's a tradition outside of the Netherlands, but here kids make "Easter Palm Sticks" (Palmpasenstokken), which are smallish crosses with all kinds of colourful decorations on them and a bread rooster on top to remind us of the rooster that crowed after Peter lied the third time. In our parish the plan was to make them for the sick and elderly, but so many kids turned up and made sticks that we've probably run out of sick and elderly...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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