Churches cope with the corona lockdown in different ways. One of the strangest methods is the one used by this little parish in Australia, the St Thomas´ Liberal Catholic Church in Melba, a suburb of Canberra. There are several groups calling themselves "Liberal Catholic", the original one being C W Leadbeater´s Theosophical front organization. It´s not clear to me who the guys in Melba might be.
Due to the corona pandemic, the holy mass is celebrated by three people only, one of them being the priest. To fill the empty pews, the Church uses teddy bears! You can see this most clearly at time stamps 58:00 - 1:02:00. The scene where the priest carries the monstrance around (to be worshipped by the toy bears?) is almost priceless.
It struck me that many churches might be forced to use this method of celebrating the eucharist even when the pandemic is over, unless the Holy Ghost decides to speak out really forcefully in the near future, filling the pews with human converts!
Or, at the very least, the Australian government comes up with a vaccine against corona...
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