Sunday, May 21, 2006

TOP TEN LEAST POPULAR CHURCH FURNISHINGS

With a little help from my daughter Brittany, we came up with these:

#10 - Folding chairs in the nave (Bring your own, or rent one for a buck)












#9 - Altar is the bar room table from the old Pedro's Cafe

#8 - Fountain dispenser for the wine (behind the pictured bar)






#7 - Barstools for the folk group, er, "contemporary ensemble"


























#6 - Garden hose at the baptistry (btw, don't let the scene on your left happen to you)








#5 - Movie theater seats in the choir loft, if your church even has one these days (hey, these look rather comfy, and with cup/bottle holders too)








#4 - Large screen TV to project the song lyrics - a little more high-tech than at certain gymnasium Masses in Minneapolis











#3 - Glass pitchers with KoolAid Man's face on them (oh yeah!)
(Well, well, well, look who's demonstrating!)









#2 - Couches and Love Seats in the sanctuary










AND THE NUMBER ONE LEAST POPULAR CHURCH FURNISHING:

#1 - Remote for large screen TV mentioned in number 4

















Peace,
BMP

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very Funny, but scary too as we actually have a women at our parish who brings her own lawn chair to Mass. She usually positions herself behind the last pew in one of the wings, but I have no idea why she does it. The pews just aren't that uncomfortable.

Argent said...

I know an Episcopal priest who served in a parish that had what they called the "chip and dip" paten. The chalice was welded to a tray that held the hosts. People would come up, pick up a host and dip it into the chalice.