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...central event came into focus: the baptism of three new members of the congregation-a Jewish student in his 20s, a young woman dancer and a three-year-old black-and-Puerto Rican boy adopted by a white family. As incense billowed up toward the rafters, the Rev. Eugene Monick, 42, intoned: "Do you renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world . . . and the sinful desires of the flesh . . . ?" Then he cupped water onto the forehead of each of the baptismal candidates and daubed them with Magic Marker in the sign...
...Vicar Monick, baptism is a sacrament of rebirth that profits not only the newly baptized, but those "on the far side of Christ" who have seen their hopes crushed-as in the upheavals and violence of the '60s-and need their faith reaffirmed. To express all this symbolically through environmental theater, Monick worked for two months with the event's directors, Kevin O'Connor, a Roman Catholic, and Gordon Stewart, a Presbyterian. One nice touch they devised to dramatize the rebirth theme: during the baptism, members of the cast circulated among the worshipers washing the mud from...
...High Church bastion, it took on new life in the 1960s under a priest named Sidney Lanier, who suggested turning it into an actors' church and using the sanctuary for weekday performances of the off-Broadway American Place Theater. The American Place troupe now has new quarters, but Monick, Lanier's successor, has continued St. Clement's involvement with the theater. In a 1969 experiment, Monick and Playwright Tom LaBar prepared an environmental Eucharist, a daylong service in which parishioners were taken one by one through rooms depicting each episode of the Mass...
Some ministers occasionally substitute movies, plays or poetry readings for conventional sermons. St. Clement's Episcopal Church, on the fringe of Broadway in Manhattan, frequently presents dramatic readings and even short playlets in place of sermons by its vicar, Father Eugene A. Monick. One Sunday, parishioners acted out a scene from Harold Pinter's The Caretaker. At another service, they put on a sketch about parish life, improbably called The Dynamics of Inter-Cultural Encounter, or How I Split My Scene, Dropped My Frock, Blew My Cool and Found...
...slot 1½ in. long, reach up (the slot was 5 ft. 9 in. from the floor) to write a name vertically, from the bottom of the slot to the top. "Damn near had to stand on their heads, I guess," said Ramsey County (St. Paul) Auditor Eugene A. Monick. At many polling places where machines were not used, the supply of ballots ran out. Some voters stood in line for hours, finally wrote their choice on scratch paper initialed by the election judges...
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