Call to…Puppetry?

Last week, the West Coast Call to Action had its conference in San Jose. This blogs links to a video of the Closing Liturgy.

Here’s a direct link to the video.

Playing “spot the liturgical abuse” is not the point. Nor is snarking at the average age of the participants. (Just heading off the predictable commentary at the pass here. Let’s go deeper.)

What I am just not grasping, despite my pretty strong powers of empathy, is the gestalt at work here.

Why does everyone think the giant liturgical puppets are so awesome?

This has got to be one of the oddest things I’ve ever seen.