The Hunger Games, from which the book gets its title, is a fictitious annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death. The book was inspired by gladiatorial games and reality TV.

While some think there is Christian symbolism in the book, I think the connection is somewhat tenuous.

The transcendent having been carefully excised from Anglican Church of Canada’s gospel, it – ever striving to be relevant – sees the temporal battle between the poor and wealthy in the book as a fitting centrepiece for a Eucharist.

What next after the U2charist and the Hunger Games Eucharist? I’m surprised we haven’t already seen a Matrix Eucharist, a Harry Potter Eucharist and a Hobbit Eucharist. There is still time.

From here:

About 130 young people gathered in a heavily fortified bank vault in the depths of the ‘Diefenbunker’ near Carp, Ont., on Nov. 17, 2013. They were there for a Eucharist and sermon comparing the pacifism of Christ and the “redemptive violence” of the bestselling novel and movie The Hunger Games.

The once-secret underground bunker near Carp, Ont., was built more than 50 years ago to protect the Canadian government from nuclear attack.

“The Hunger Games is a book about juxtaposition,” said the Rev. Monique Stone, organizer of the service and incumbent of the Anglican Parish of Huntley, in her sermon. “It’s a book in which we see a community in dire poverty pushed up against a community of privilege­—in which we hear about a community that is starving, and [another] that has so much excess that at times they actually want to make themselves sick so they can fit in more food.”