Eucharistic Conference

MagicMarker

What exactly is all this about? Just came across it on RTE2 and it looks like a parody of the Eurovision.

shizz

Maybe there's many presentations of recent papers they have written? A place to discuss new theories perhaps?


Seriously though what is it about? What new things could they be talking about?

subway

Its to remind catholics that they have to believe in transubtantiation since most of them dont seem to know thats the central tenet of their version of christianity

fitz0

MagicMarker wrote: »

What exactly is all this about? Just came across it on RTE2 and it looks like a parody of the Eurovision.

That's just the talent competition on the second day - Pope Idol.

Owen

Might be like the one at the early days of the last century when they decided to ban the use of Jazz Music.

gerryo777

MagicMarker wrote: »

What exactly is all this about? Just came across it on RTE2 and it looks like a parody of the Eurovision.

Good troll, or are you just showing your ignorance?

Or are you just trying to get another thread going on catholic bashing?

fitz0

Look, a catholic! Let's bash him!

Cats are terrible pets! Why would anybody like cats so much?

MagicMarker

gerryo777 wrote: »

Good troll, or are you just showing your ignorance?

Or are you just trying to get another thread going on catholic bashing?

Well for now I'd just like to know what it's all about, the catholic bashing can come later.

Turtwig

gerryo777 wrote: »

MagicMarker wrote: »

What exactly is all this about? Just came across it on RTE2 and it looks like a parody of the Eurovision.

Good troll, or are you just showing your ignorance?

Or are you just trying to get another thread going on catholic bashing?

Ah now, my friend who is a devout Catholic actually made that joke about the intro.
I certainly wouldn't consider her a troll.

shizz

fitz0 wrote: »

Look, a catholic! Let's bash him!

Cats are terrible pets! Why would anybody like cats so much?

I thanked your post until I seen what you said about cats. HEATHEN!!!

Turtwig

Anybody grab a glimpse of Jeff bridges Obadiah stane?

fitz0

shizz wrote: »

I thanked your post until I seen what you said about cats. HEATHEN!!!

But a Catholic with a small c is just someone who really likes cats. It was solely for the purpose of catholic bashing, I swear. I love cats. I wouldn't go as far as to call myself a catholic but they're nifty little animals.

They make great flying machines too.

shizz

fitz0 wrote: »

But a Catholic with a small c is just someone who really likes cats. It was solely for the purpose of catholic bashing, I swear. I love cats. I wouldn't go as far as to call myself a catholic but they're nifty little animals.

They make great flying machines too.

Really poor taste by that guy IMO. Making a show of his cat.

MrPudding

gerryo777 wrote: »

Or are you just trying to get another thread going on catholic bashing?

They shouldn't make it so easy to bash them.

MrP

MagicMarker

I wonder what kind of profit is being made out of this? I read somewhere that a day ticket is €30, and it's going on for 7 days.

Presumably the collection basket is handed out quite often too....

Turtwig

"Rapid secularization" spoken as if that was a bad thing.:(

MisterEpicurus

shizz wrote: »

Seriously though what is it about? What new things could they be talking about?

A lot of Catholics probably ask these questions when they discover an annual Atheist Conference is about to take place. Seems to work both ways...

golden lane

when are the going to give up....and get a proper job...?????

Sarky

In before "Golden Cleric Award" Father Ted reference.

MrPudding

Sarky wrote: »

In before "Golden Cleric Award" Father Ted reference.

Whilst I am going to give most of it a miss I will queuing overnight to make sure I get a front row seat for the Lovely Girl contest.

MrP

legspin

MrPudding wrote: »

Whilst I am going to give most of it a miss I will queuing overnight to make sure I get a front row seat for the Lovely Girl contest.

MrP

Moare Whater!!!

endacl

Very disappointed. I thought it said 'eucharistic conkers'. Now, that I could have got behind...

I did wonder where they'd get the conkers from at this time of year. Divine intervention maybe?

bnt

Both the Irish Times and the Independent have pieces today mentioning the poor turnout: around 11-12,000 vs the expected 20,000, of which 7,000 are visitors from other countries.
Indo:

JUST more than half of an expected 20,000 pilgrims descended on Dublin's RDS yesterday for the opening event of the International Eucharistic Congress.
Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin and the Papal Legate Cardinal Marc Ouellet addressed an audience made up largely of overseas pilgrims from 123 countries, in a ceremony where numbers were noticeably less than anticipated.
The attendance is a far cry from 1932 when more than a quarter of the population,or one million, attended the international event.

IT:

In his address, Archbishop Martin said repeatedly the church in Ireland was on a path to renewal. The rest of the country, it seems, was already on the path to Poznan.The television transmission of the Mass was cut off before it finished to make way for the soccer coverage.
An interesting day. Filled with worship and wonder and hope and inspiration for the pilgrims.
But – are we wrong here? – it felt like a niche event. One of many to command the attention yesterday. To this observer, it all seemed rather flat.
In terms of numbers, the passion and the prayers went to Poland yesterday.
The football won. And somehow, that makes us sad.

Penn

bnt wrote: »

Both the Irish Times and the Independent have pieces today mentioning the poor turnout: around 11-12,000 vs the expected 20,000, of which 7,000 are visitors from other countries.
Indo:
IT:

The football won. And somehow, that makes us sad.

Joke Answer: Yeah. Because we lost.

Real Answer: How does it make us sad? At least when Waters or Quinn talk about how religion affects us, it's in an opinion piece. This was under "News". Unless the journalist took a survey of 100 people, the fact that more people were interested in the match than in this event does not make us sad, it likely makes her sad.

Again, this is just another demonstration of how the high numbers of Catholics in this country are mostly Cultural Catholics. And being a Cultural Catholic means doing the bare minimum to qualify as a Catholic. That doesn't involve either watching or going to events like this.

Newaglish

Is it basically a conference? I switched it on for a while and there was a German boy wearing what appeared to be a Lederhosen-esque outfit singing hymns in Latin with the crowd sat behind him facing in the opposite direction. It was all very weird. I'm not sure what the purpose is.

joseph brand

MagicMarker wrote: »

I wonder what kind of profit is being made out of this? I read somewhere that a day ticket is €30, and it's going on for 7 days.

Presumably the collection basket is handed out quite often too....

"So often, you won't even notice". (Blues Brothers)

Doctor DooM

Penn wrote: »

Joke Answer: Yeah. Because we lost.

Real Answer: How does it make us sad? At least when Waters or Quinn talk about how religion affects us, it's in an opinion piece. This was under "News". Unless the journalist took a survey of 100 people, the fact that more people were interested in the match than in this event does not make us sad, it likely makes her sad.

To be fair, the fervour for football can be kinda sad. I know it's bad writing, but at least the catholics think their immortal soul is on the line, as opposed to some tribalistic mentalism whipped up on the assumption that our roundball players will never be beaten, assumedly because we were born in the same country they were (sometimes).

Penn

Doctor DooM wrote: »

To be fair, the fervour for football can be kinda sad. I know it's bad writing, but at least the catholics think their immortal soul is on the line, as opposed to some tribalistic mentalism whipped up on the assumption that our roundball players will never be beaten, assumedly because we were born in the same country they were (sometimes).

Oh trust me, I couldn't give two flying f*cks about the football myself. Only watched some of it because I knew I'd be f*cking quizzed on it today. But to use such a subjective term based on nothing but her own opinion in an actual news piece as opposed to an opinion piece, is quite sad.

robindch

Doctor DooM wrote: »

[...] our roundball players [...]

"Roundball" for "soccer"? Like "Golf sticks" for "golf clubs".

Zamboni

I drove through Finglas at the weekend and one thing caught my eye.
Admist the sea of tricolour bunting there was one house with the papal yellow & white bunting.
I didn't stop to count but that is a ratio I can live with.

Sonics2k

robindch wrote: »

"Roundball" for "soccer"? Like "Golf sticks" for "golf clubs".

Rugby can be Handegg?

im invisible

Newaglish wrote: »

Is it basically a conference? I switched it on for a while and there was a German boy wearing what appeared to be a Lederhosen-esque outfit singing hymns in Latin with the crowd sat behind him facing in the opposite direction. It was all very weird. I'm not sure what the purpose is.

or maybe it was him, that was standing behind the crowd, facing the wrong direction, did you ever think of that?

Newaglish

im invisible wrote: »

Newaglish wrote: »

Is it basically a conference? I switched it on for a while and there was a German boy wearing what appeared to be a Lederhosen-esque outfit singing hymns in Latin with the crowd sat behind him facing in the opposite direction. It was all very weird. I'm not sure what the purpose is.

or maybe it was him, that was standing behind the crowd, facing the wrong direction, did you ever think of that?

Isn't that the same thing?

endacl

Newaglish wrote: »

im invisible wrote: »

Newaglish wrote: »

Is it basically a conference? I switched it on for a while and there was a German boy wearing what appeared to be a Lederhosen-esque outfit singing hymns in Latin with the crowd sat behind him facing in the opposite direction. It was all very weird. I'm not sure what the purpose is.

or maybe it was him, that was standing behind the crowd, facing the wrong direction, did you ever think of that?

Isn't that the same thing?

Not at all. You see, the majority were facing in the same direction*, which made them right and him wrong. Which is why gay people can't get maried. Simple. See?

* may or may not be how religion works.

Turtwig

Ireland did have freakishly bad luck in that round ball game. Perhaps God was punishing the Irish for not really paying attention to His conference?

Penn

Jernal wrote: »

Ireland did have freakishly bad luck in that round ball game. Perhaps God was punishing the Irish for not really paying attention to His conference?

Well I know where I'm going on Thursday!

Home after work to play Batman: Arkham Asylum

shizz

I'll be watching Ireland get sodomized by those unruly Spaniards....

Liamario

I know this sounds like a rhetorical question, but why did this conference get so much coverage on television- especially when an equivalent atheist event only gets a sarcastic blurb on news bulletin.

Sonics2k

Jernal wrote: »

Ireland did have freakishly bad luck in that round ball game. Perhaps God was punishing the Irish for not really paying attention to His conference?

My bet is because the Irish team are kinda shíte.

Turtwig

Sonics2k wrote: »

Jernal wrote: »

Ireland did have freakishly bad luck in that round ball game. Perhaps God was punishing the Irish for not really paying attention to His conference?

My bet is because the Irish team are kinda shíte.

My bet is in agreement with Limario God was pissed the atheist conferences didn't get any airtime or coverage so he punished Ireland.

georgieporgy

im invisible wrote: »

or maybe it was him, that was standing behind the crowd, facing the wrong direction, did you ever think of that?

The podium he was standing on was set in the middle of the crowd about 1/3 the way down into the audience from the stage. Those who were sitting in the front rows would then have their backs to him but could watch him on one of the giant screens instead.

endacl

georgieporgy wrote: »

The podium he was standing on was set in the middle of the crowd about 1/3 the way down into the audience from the stage. Those who were sitting in the front rows would then have their backs to him but could watch him on one of the giant screens instead.

Cool. Was there stagediving? I bet the pit MASHED!

Banbh

The Omnicence of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, said it would be a demonstration of the strength (or was it power) of the Catholic Church. He was right.

mikhail

Sonics2k wrote: »

Rugby can be Handegg?

And bogball and stickfighting can round out the major sports here. Or we can dismiss the pathetic nicknames for what they are.

jack presley

Nothing better than a Eucharist Conference in HD.

Galvasean

Football, bigger than Jesus.

swampgas

Sonics2k wrote: »

Rugby can be Handegg?

mikhail wrote: »

And bogball and stickfighting can round out the major sports here.

I suppose international rules could be handeggbogball ?

endacl

Galvasean wrote: »

Football, bigger than Jesus.

C'mon... I know people used to be shorter back then, but smaller than a football?!? Seriously?!?

I'm really starting to worry about you, man. And I'm saying that as a friend.

robindch

georgieporgy wrote: »

[...] one of the giant screens instead [...]

jack presley wrote: »

Nothing better than a Eucharist Conference in HD.

Hmm... slow-mo replays, touchline steadicams, commentator's box, sin bins, cards, apres match...

There's an opportunity here to make this thing fun!

shizz

robindch wrote: »

Hmm... slow-mo replays, touchline steadicams, commentator's box, sin bins, cards, apres match...

There's an opportunity here to make this thing fun!

And slightly Blasphemic (If that's a word)

endacl

robindch wrote: »

georgieporgy wrote: »

[...] one of the giant screens instead [...]

jack presley wrote: »

Nothing better than a Eucharist Conference in HD.

Hmm... slow-mo replays, touchline steadicams, commentator's box, sin bins, cards, apres match...

There's an opportunity here to make this thing fun!

Yet still no goal line technology. What's that about?