They have televisions on wall on each side of the altar. No more hymnals. Everything on tv just like the modern Protestants except most Protestants are pro life and anti sodomites.
The service is mostly baby boomers who
were never hippies but think it’s way cool to have hippy service. They have social justice team in multi cultural area but most parishioners are wealthy white baby boomers.
I’ve never seen screens instead of missalettes and hymnals, but I’ve heard about it. The presence of screens totally detracts from the atmosphere of sanctity and reverence, not that many churches have that any more, even without the screens. There is a very old Presbyterian church in NY that was totally destroyed by the installment of a young, modern “pastor” and his new board of directors. Putting aside the fact Presbyterianism is heretical, the church interior matched the exterior, an old clapboard building painted white, the arch-shaped windows of patterned stained glass. Inside was old floorboards, old box style pews, racks neatly stocked with bibles and hymnals. The pulpit, platform, and pipe organ were of beautifully carved, varnished wood. When you walked in, there was a hushed atmosphere, the smell of old wood and polish, the only sounds were made by the creaking floorboards. Today, when you walk inside, you need to turn on the LED overhead lights to expose a very expensive and ugly terrazzo floor, off-white plastic ergo dynamic chairs arranged in three rows in a semi-circle around a foot high cement platform covered with artificial cobblestone vinyl. The pulpit is a plexiglass podium and the organ is gone, replaced with room for the “music ministry,” a drum kit, keyboard on a metal stand, cased up guitars, and in the center, a place for the choir or liturgical dancers, sign language interpreters, etc. The stained glass windows still show on the outside, lit up at night by sill lights, but the windows are nowhere to be seen from inside, being covered ugly abstract canvases and from the ceiling hang three huge screens onto which is projected the words to worship songs and Responsorial prayers or verses. There