Day 142: Mixed-up Church Items

The Prompt: For 90 seconds, write what you would see in a Catholic church.  Now take ten of those things and write a short story about them, but don’t set them in a church.

I was just thinking about the Catholic church from my last posts.  

Stained glass windows, hymnals, a bowl of water, a bishop's hat, benches to kneel on, an organ, bread and juice for the Last Supper, a Bible, pews, tapestries, announcement board, pulpit, choir, Statue of Mother Mary.

I am going to use stained glass windows, an organ, hymnals, a choir, the Virgin Mary statue, a bowl of water, a Bible, a bishop's hat, an announcement board, and tapestries.

Jacob carried his bishop's hat and robe costume into the dressing room of the theater.  Playing the bishop from Shakepeare's Henry V was a large honor.  He had rehearsed his lines nearly nonstop for the past two months and was confident he was doing great.

He stared around at the other members of his acting crew gathering together.  The choir members were practicing their opening song.  It was ambitious for the director to have a choir singing some of the narration, but this was a theater.  The set directors were placing the Virgin Mary and organ props onstage.  One girl was having trouble adjusting the tapestries in the background.  No matter what she did to it, the left side was still crooked. 

"Here's your Bible, Jacob" his friend handed him the Bible, meant as a prop. Jacob was pleased he actually had an excuse to carry his Bible around in public.  "I looked at the announcement board out front," he continued. "They ran out of tickets!"

"That's exciting.  Maybe we'll raise so much money for the community that we can afford to replace the church's stained glass windows."

"Yeah, that would be great!  Well, see you out there.  Good luck, Jacob!"

"Thanks!"