Lift the City - a Catholic Eucharistic flash mob (Catholic Caucus)

WDTPRS ^ | June 25, 2011 | Fr. Zuhlsdorf

[NYer]

Please watch this whole video before reacting. Then think about it for a few minutes before reacting.

A Franciscan priest and a small group with him took it to the streets and staged a Eucharistic Flash Mob.

WATCH THE VIDEO

What do you all think of this for urban centers in wealthy countries?

I think something like this needs some care to preserve proper reverence for the Blessed Sacrament. I am not sure how this squares with liturgical law, involvement with the local bishop, etc.

But… if those things can be worked through…

Does this fit with the New Evangelization?

Is this what we need to do?

Let’s have a WDTPRS POLL.

Please choose your best answer along this short scale and leave a comment in the combox.

IMPORTANT: I ask that you allow everyone else to have their say. Don’t attack other people’s opinions. Let’s aim for the high road in the combox.

About Extraordinary Form "dialogue" Mass.

• The congregation should be silent always and only the choir or servers should respond.
• Everyone should respond to everything and even sing the Our Father and Gregorian chant Ordinary (Kyrie, Gloria, Creed).
• More dialogue for sung Masses and less or none for Low Masses.
• Sung dialogue parts but only for smaller or well-prepared congregations.
• People should be able to respond aloud, but only at about a whisper.
• No strong feeling one way or the other.

[Cicero]

Yes, very much like that.

Church Street would be awesome. It’s appropriately named for it, but for those who don’t know Burlington, it’s also the major shopping, dining, and meeting street where traffic is closed off and there are usually plenty of people walking up and down it.

[papertyger]

This was a most edifying display.

Bless the Lord, Jesus the Christ, and bless the hearts of those who love him..

[bronxville]

It was beautiful. Thank you.

[arielguard]

A monk elevating the Eucharist with another preaching Jesus Christ in a public square...? Oh, the PUBLIC SCANDAL!

I love it! This is the kind of faith that evangelized the pagans so successfully.