mgwells:“Today, Easter day of the Holy Year, Here, under the emblem of Notre-Dame of Paris, I
mgwells:“Today, Easter day of the Holy Year, Here, under the emblem of Notre-Dame of Paris, I accuse the universal Catholic Church of the lethal diversion of our living strength toward an empty heaven, I accuse the Catholic Church of swindling, I accuse the Catholic Church of infecting the world with its funereal morality, Of being the running sore on the decomposed body of the West. Verily I say unto you: God is dead, We vomit the agonizing insipidity of your prayers, For your prayers have been the greasy smoke over the battlefields of our Europe. Go forth then into the tragic and exalting desert of a world where God is dead, And till this earth anew with your bare hands, With your PROUD hands, With your unpraying hands. Today Easter day of the Holy Year, Here under the emblem of Notre-Dame of Paris, We proclaim the death of the Christ-god, so that Man may live at last.” Michel MourreThe above quotation is taken from a sermon delivered by members of the Lettriste International who disrupted the Easter Mass at Notre-Dame in Paris in the month of April in the year 1950. Michel Mourre read the sermon dressed as a Dominican monk and the blasphemous and ruthlessly anti-clerical polemic was written by Serge Berna. This is easily one of the greatest moments in what would later be canonised as ‘performance art’ or 'happenings’. It is a rigorous and violent moment of critique and one which anyone with any pretensions toward establishing an art-of-action must endeavour not merely to emulate but to surpass. -- source link
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