Priest holds mass in arcade

I don’t know what I’d think if I walked in on this. If Pac-Man were giving the sermon they’d definitely have my attention. Should the Church want to gain attendance they should make more games like Billy Graham’s Bible Blaster (my high score is 1100) instead of dreck like Left Behind: Eternal Forces.

“At the start, they were all a bit surprised,” he said. “But then they stopped playing and helped to prepare an altar and volunteered to read bits of the Gospel. Everyone paid attention throughout the holy mass.”

”I hit upon this idea thinking about the fact that so many young people are distancing themselves from the church and choosing to hang out together in different ways and in different places, whether they be discos and games arcades, away from parents with whom they don’t feel at ease,” he said.

via arcade heroes