Chuck E. Church is coming to bounce all your cares away. UPI is reporting:
Catholic leaders in Germany said they are planning to tour remote parts of the country to hold services in an inflatable church.
Peter Huyeng, head of the Essen Catholic youth organization, said the bouncy church, which was supplied by British company Xtreme Inflatables for about $50,000, seats 60 people and comes complete with a confession box, The Sun reported Thursday.
“We want to take the church where there aren’t any churches, such as in pedestrian zones and school yards in towns,” Huyeng said. “We have to come to the people and not wait for them to come to us.”
Well, I’m glad to hear there’s confessions being heard in the bouncy church. Maybe the first thing you should say is, “Forgive me Father for I have sinned, I went to Mass at Chuck E. Church.”
Just a few quick questions:
I’m wondering if the floor is filled with colorful balls or if the priest dresses up as a large rodent or perhaps a marsupial.
Do you have to crawl through the plastic tunnels to receive communion?
How many tickets do you win if you throw the ball into the baptismal font on the first try?
And how many tickets does it take for the subscription to the National Catholic Reporter?
You know what? I’m asking anyone who happens to be in Germany please attend services there. Oh yeah, please bring a pin.
November 7, 2008 at 3:35 am
Not being able to find a Catholic church in Germany is hard. They exist.
A lot are ugly inside, because of wreckovations… but they still exist!
November 7, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Yes, indeed, Germany is decorated with churches, Catholic and Lutheran, most of them abandoned, used as museums, or open only on an occasional Sunday.
Giving people balloons when they ask for bread…!
— Mack
November 7, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Priceless!
November 7, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Its beyond tacky but I guess if you are in a very rural area with no church, the bouncy one is better than none.
November 7, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Germany is where America is heading – I am from there, and I am frightened! And I am asking myself why did I come here again?
Wanna see? At least they had the “decency” to make it look “traditional”.
http://www.thelocal.de/society/20081103-15289.html
It actually seems to becoming the latest fad:
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=13464
Mum26
November 7, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Why not just celebrate in a house like missionaries in remote parts of the U.S. used to (I am thinking in particular of the great St. John Neumann)?
Or why not use a trailer converted to a chapel?
November 8, 2008 at 8:43 pm
hmmm…I wonder how long it took the gentle priest to inflate the thing? Will he have enough breath left to offer Mass?
November 8, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Western and southern Germany was evangelized by the end of the eight century. Eastern Germany by the end of the ninth. Although much of northern and Eastern Germany adopted the Lutheran heresy, I’m pretty sure there aren’t Germans who can’t find an actual church to attend. They’ve been being built for over a thousand years. Something tells me this priest just wants an excuse to say mass in an inflatable “church”