CONFERENCE LITURGIES
Closing Mass@Religious Education Congress 07
The following photos were taken during the various liturgies at the 2007 Religious Education Congress in Los Angeles. Do you recognize the Catholic Mass in the following pictures? If you do -- you have liturgical abuse in your parish. (Click on the pictures for a larger view.)
ARENA LITURGY
Presider: Cardinal Roger Mahony
Place: Convention Arena

“Bring it on”

“Let’s Dance”

“You have mail”

"Move Your Body"

LISTEN to me!

Whaz up?

Directing traffic

Out Cha-Cha
YOUNG ADULT LITURGY
Presider: Rev. Richard Leonard
Place: Marriott Marquis Ballroom

“Hail Hitler”

Holding hands – this must be the “Our Father”

Nice Pottery
INDONESIAN LITURGY
Presider: Bishop Luis Antonio Tagle
Place: Marriott Grand Ballroom

Wave them weapons!

I have sheets

Look at the size of that basket.
HAWAIIAN LITURGY
Presider: Rev. George Acosta
Place: Hilton Pacific Ballroom

Juice and pie anyone?

Set for the Luau

No grass skirts? What kind of hula is this?
NATIVE AMERICAN LITURGY
Presider: Rev. Paul Ojibway
Place: Convention Arena

It’s a bird!

Sweet grassing the altar

Sweet grassing the people

The Bishop is done. Sweet grassing the rest

Take five

“o' J l b t w a h- y- You belong to Whiteman,
weya ha- ya- ya-, weya ha- ya- ya-! ...”
Don’t know who was responsible for this one
MISA de las AMERICAS

Washerwomen led in by a dancer

Washer women led away by a dancer

More laundry coming – but wait – that must be the bread

No, it was tortilla
SATURDAY JAZZ LITURGY
Who the fools were who knows… who cares...

Thai Chi

Jazz crooning

Witches' brew

What’s with the sheets?

Waiting for the bar to open

Smoking out

Sitting on bidet
CLOSING LITURGY
Presider: Bishop Jaime Soto
Place: Convention Arena

Prometheus

“It’s a plane”

Sideway Shuffle

Lookitsme

Overdeveloped altar girls FOLLOW Bishop

Priest Wannabe

More plastic pitchers and tortilla
