Soccer game breaks-out at funeral service/canonisation

Kiko Argüello and Carmen Hernandez say that the original emphasis on the resurrection of Christ in the Mass was lost in the Constantine era and an erroneous sacrificial tone was inserted in its place. Their liturgy calls for paschal exultation at a table, not a sacrifice at an altar. 

The members of the Neocatechumenal Way, make their “celebrations” (they do not call them masses) on Saturday night. The small community – ideally no more than 20 or 30 - gathers in chairs around a table (never an altar, which suggests sacrifice) in the center of one of the parish buildings (which they prefer to churches). There they perform their “celebration” sitting and standing, never kneeling or genuflecting. For the Consecration the whole community stands. 

Communion is received standing. Each member receives in his hands a piece of the bread broken from a huge loaf – baked by the members themselves according to Argüello’s specific instructions. Then the celebrant sits and waits for all the faithful to receive the bread. After the presbyter says, “Body of Christ, bring us everlasting life,” the whole congregation consumes the loaf together. Then the cup is shared by all. The presbyter is supposed to carry it around, but often the members pass it from hand to hand, to give the sense of eating and drinking around a dinner table

http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/m028rpNeocats.html

Pope Francis sent a message to Kiko Argüello to assure his affection and spiritual closeness upon the death * of Carmen Hernández, who with Argüello, founded the Neocatechumenal Way. 

Although we have no photos of the event, we can report ** that during the FunServCan of Ms. Hernandez, several pre-teen members of the NeoCats grabbed the huge loaf of bread off the table and began to use it as a soccer ball and the youngsters beat the aging hipsters One-Nil when a tiny preteen, Jimena-Jimena, headed a cross past the keeper of the flame, Kiko, who had been incapacitated by a late vocation NeoCat seminarian from Spain who used Kiko's own guitar to brain him.


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** And by "report" we mean completely make-up...

O, and don'cha'know that folks will be far more upset that we treat the  NeoCats with the same lack of respect as they treat The Holocaust *** and The  Sacred Species then they are upset by what The NeoCats do.


*** Yes, Virginia, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is a Holocaust not a Hootenanny.