Gospel Acted Out By Children

[Groo the Wanderer]

In our parish, the priest read the part of Jesus, a woman did the part of the crowd/voices....*Groo* read the narrator part. Only oopsie was I kinda got choked up toward the end...hope it didn't come out in the reading.

The other 6 masses were done by different lay readers, but a priest always read the part of Jesus.

[Old_Joe]

They did a silent version here in St. Louis at the parish we went to on sunday. It was pretty tasteful, but I still would've liked the Gospel read as a narration at the same time.

Edited March 18, 2008 by Old_Joe

[CoffeeCatholic]

how do you proclaim a silent version of the Gospel?

[Jaime]

We do interpretive sock puppetry



Its a lot cooler than it sounds

[Brigid]

[quote name='VeniteAdoremus' post='1478362' date='Mar 16 2008, 07:48 PM'](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...)[/quote]
I have never heard of that tradition, but it sounds really cool!

[bonoducchi]

First - if it isn't your parish, most pastors and bishops are not going to give much weight to your comments, simply because there are people who make it their "job" to go around, find irregularities and abuses and write letters to pastors and bishops. I would vote with my feet and not return, but leave it at that.

Second - the Passion is historically sung on Palm Sunday and there are a myriad of different settings, from simple chanted settings (from the various chant forms) to the standard repertoire Bach settings to modern atonal choral settings. The texts of Jesus are, if possible, to be reserved for the priest. However, in the case of some settings, the average parish priest will not have the musical ability to sing the part of Jesus. In that case, a tenor or baritone usually would sing the Christus role.

I only take umbrage when women read the Christus role as some sort of feminist power assertion (you can usually tell when this is the case).

[Socrates]

[quote name='Old_Joe' post='1479017' date='Mar 17 2008, 10:00 PM']They did a silent version here in St. Louis at the parish we went to on sunday. It was pretty tasteful, but I still would've liked the Gospel read as a narration at the same time.[/quote]
More liturgical abuse - mime shows and the like may never be substituted for the Gospel [i]reading[/i], whether "tasteful" or no.

[doe-jo]

Luckily for us in my parish, kids are going to act the passion out right after the gospel this coming Easter Vigil again.

[Paladin D]

[quote name='curtins' post='1478273' date='Mar 16 2008, 05:28 PM']Typically the passion account is read by a priest and two others (lay or deacons- or I guess priests if they have concelebration)[/quote]

This is what our parish did.