Canterbury Rite Mass

Individual Mass

This Mass is for the individual use of a Sister. The Mass is offered in one element. The Sister is encouraged to offer this Mass as a regular spiritual exercise. There is minimal preparation needed. It is suggested that the Sister is vested or at least wears a veil.

Sister (at the altar):In the name of the Dingo and of the Indulgent Organ. And in the hope of the Victory to Come.

Psalm 69

Judge me, Dingo, mad bitch, and lay me bare unto Perpetual Indulgence.

Protect me from enemies, especially the attacks of the Tories.

Behold you are our health and strength, and lead us on to ultimate joys.

Spray us with your blessing and mark us as your own, feral creature.

In the era of pestilence, we pray to you.

Glory be to the Dingo and to the Indulgent Organ.

As it was in the time of the classical catamites, as is now and shall be unto the Rendez-Vous of Victory.

Confiteor - Confession

I confess to the most Holy Dingo, all praise her feralness, to our Saints and to Sisters and departed Sisters,

that I have indulged repeatedly my body in perpetual pleasures, and have not wished to cease in the doing of these,

and that I have sought at all time to expiate stigmatic guilt, and to solicit and importune unto the coming of indulgent bliss and universal joy.

Reading

The Sister can choose a Reading here (though this can be omitted).

This is the word of the OPI

Credo

I believe in the one Order of Perpetual Indulgence

and in our mission to all the Gathered Faithful,

and in the divine protection of gay/queer power,

and in the celebration of change

and in our habitual manifestations

and in the joy of our gatherings and screeching.

I believe in the expiation of stigmatic guiltand in the victory to come.

I believe in the witness of those who have gone before and in the memory we keep of those we love.

We shall meet with them at the rendez-vous of victory.

We shall join with them in the fire of universal joy.

Kyrie

Eros in the Perpetual Organ

Eros in the charvering

Eros in the Perpetual Organ

Sign of Pride

I manifest the Sign of Pride,

I lift up my heart free of stigmatic guilt.

I chastise all non-indulgent particles from my body in preparation.

Consecration

Come up through the planet most holy dingo and shower us with thy blessings, as we celebrate thine own work amongst us, blessed bitch.

And on the night they raided the Stonewall Bar, in the week Judy Garland died, behold the butch fairies lifted up their bar stools, and said, 'We will take lily law no more', and behold -

thy work was begun and unleashed throughout every lattie, manifesting thy power through our Sisterhood

And behold the first radical fairies did troll across Highbury Fields in 1970 in protest at arrests, and the Gay Liberation Force met on 13 October,

(here the Sister raises the element)

And in our heritage of protest and celebration, we bring Gay Pride to perpetual joy, year on year,

and we expiate from the deepest within, all traces of stigmatic guilt, we root it out from all our community,

And we offer up this Mass for the community we share across the divide, in the loving memory of those who are gone before us, and who share in these elements with us now, we eat with them and we drink with them, we share their lives and their loves in this moment.

(The Sister receives the element)

I receive the community through this Dingo food

(The Sister clears away the vessels of the Mass.)

(Ending the Mass)

Behold the promise of perpetual indulgence and the dismissal of all our fears. In the hope of the Victory to Come.