You know that really dignified looking Gothic-style Episcopal church on Wall Street? You know, the one where Alexander Hamilton's buried?
For Trinity Sunday. At Trinity Church. Was it on purpose? Was it in honor of the Holy Trinity? Clowns? Or was it a happy accident?
The reader who sent this in comments:
The video for this bizarre monstrosity is actually online. Here is a Ship of Fools website contributor's summary of the video:
"The procession starts roughly 6 min 30 sec into the webcast, but those 6 minutes are worth listening to because the Verger explains the service.
The reading (err, miming) of Genesis is about 12 minutes in, and the Gospel Processionis about 23 min in.
Then, the elements are processed in with the offering at roughly 40:30, shortly followed by the consecration."The whole thing is a painfully misbegotten disaster. The consecration prayer itself is truly bizarre, though fans of the "silent canon" might "appreciate" it. The fraction ritual starting at 48:30 has to be seen to believed, with the cymbal and kazoos.
