Fancy a pilgrimage, anyone?

[Southern Comfort]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40725621/ns/travel-destination_travel/

I particularly like the voting options at the bottom of the report....

[HallamPhil]

Very drole SC. You need to get out more! (But then don't we all!)

[musicus]

I don't suppose for one moment that this travesty will reflect the political realities of the current situation in the Holy Land. If, which God forbid, I were to be extremely cynical, I might think that Americans are being offered a sanitised Holy Land on their doorstep, as opposed to a very uncomfortable experience at a distance. "Humankind cannot bear very much reality." (TS Eliot)

[JW]

Oh well, some like their pilgramages lite. There's a long history of making money out of religion. From the levers used to work the 'Holy Rood' at Boxley Abbey to all the tacky shops and stalls around Lourdes.

[oopsorganist]

If this link works ?? it might cheer you all up after the Holy land theme park folly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4WuQVb-J4w

[gwyn]

It's fast getting to the point where, if I'm out having a cup of coffee in a shopping precinct, and no one stands up and sings an exerpt from an oratorio, gradualoly joined by other planted members of the choir, I'm disappointed and feel short-changed.

Et incarnatus est.

Nadolig Llawn pawb.

Gwyn.

[oopsorganist]

That is just too surreal.

1) that you go to shopping centres
2) that there is an army of singers out there - and yet I cannot find the one
surreal

[gwyn]

Can't move for 'em in Abergavenny Oops. We've set traps and had the Rent-o-kill man in; but nothing seems to deter them.

[oopsorganist]

So
what bait do you use in the traps then? Are the choirs compulsively attracted to shopping centres or - is there some other secret attraction you can use?

[gwyn]

Trad rite Missa Cantatas (Cantati?) Oops. Draws 'em like moths to a lamp.

[John Ainslie]

Trad rite Missa Cantatas (Cantati?) Oops. Draws 'em like moths to a lamp.

Missae cantatae secundum ritum traditionalem. Eheu (vulgo 'oops'). Trahunt eos sicut tineae ad lucernam.