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We’ve
all heard of mystery shoppers – the spies that
companies send into shops to report back
on the quality of service received.
Well, the services now
being tested are religious ones! |
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Yes,
it’s welcome to the weird and wacky world of
the mystery worshipper
– a strange confused soul of any domination
who bravely enters the inner sanctum of a
religious building during their service and
mingles with the true believers. |
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They then
report back online on the comfort of the pews, the warmth
of the welcome, the length of the sermon, the friendliness
and the genuine holiness
of the whole event.
As the collection plate passes around it’s not a few
pieces of well needed silver they throw in –
it’s their visiting card to let us know we’ve
been worshopped!
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They then hang around in the
hope of grabbing a freebie cup of tea before skulking off
back into their confused
world to write the ‘report’. |
And Holy
Family was worshopped on Christmas Eve, 2005,
11.30 carol service & Midnight Mass. We were
‘done’ by a mystery worshipper called Flower
– probably really called
Poison Ivy. But thanks to Ivy we came out of it pretty
well scoring 8 out 10.
We lost points because our carols were not ‘happy
clappy’ and the Mass was all ‘bells and
smells’. As usual Ivy hung around outside but as no
one offered her a cuppa she scurried off home in the hope
that Santa had brought her what she really, really needed
– A Life.
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| Click on this link to
read the Holy Family report, then have a good look at the
whole site. let me read it! |
I’ve now
read it several times and I still don’t know if I
love it or loathe it.
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This report is my own
personal opinion – Bernard Stanley
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