{"id":20710,"date":"2013-11-29T23:44:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T04:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20710"},"modified":"2013-11-30T10:11:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T15:11:21","slug":"the-anglican-church-of-canada-does-a-hunger-games-eucharist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-does-a-hunger-games-eucharist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anglican Church of Canada does a Hunger Games Eucharist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hunger Games<\/a>, from which the book gets its title, is a fictitious annual event in which one boy and one girl aged\u00a012\u201318 are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death. The book was inspired by gladiatorial games and reality TV.<\/p>\n

While some<\/a> think there is Christian symbolism in the book, I think the connection is somewhat tenuous.<\/p>\n

The transcendent having been carefully excised from Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s gospel, it \u2013 ever striving to be relevant<\/i> – sees the temporal battle between the poor and wealthy in the book as a fitting centrepiece for a Eucharist.<\/p>\n

What next after the U2charist and the Hunger Games Eucharist? I\u2019m surprised we haven\u2019t already seen a Matrix Eucharist, a Harry Potter Eucharist and a Hobbit Eucharist. There is still time.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

About 130 young people gathered in a heavily fortified bank vault in the depths of the \u2018Diefenbunker’ 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.<\/p>\n

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

“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\u00ad\u2014in 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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