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We’ve all heard of mystery shoppers – the spies that companies send into shops to report back
on the quality of service received.
Well, the services now being tested are religious ones!

Yes, it’s welcome to the weird and wacky world of the mystery worshipper
– a strange confused soul of any domination who bravely enters the inner sanctum of a religious building during their service and mingles with the true believers.

They then report back online on the comfort of the pews, the warmth of the welcome, the length of the sermon, the friendliness and the genuine holiness
of the whole event.
As the collection plate passes around it’s not a few pieces of well needed silver they throw in – it’s their visiting card to let us know we’ve been worshopped!

They then hang around in the hope of grabbing a freebie cup of tea before skulking off back into their confused
world to write the ‘report’.

And Holy Family was worshopped on Christmas Eve, 2005, 11.30 carol service & Midnight Mass. We were ‘done’ by a mystery worshipper called Flower – probably really called
Poison Ivy. But thanks to Ivy we came out of it pretty well scoring 8 out 10.
We lost points because our carols were not ‘happy clappy’ and the Mass was all ‘bells and smells’. As usual Ivy hung around outside but as no one offered her a cuppa she scurried off home in the hope that Santa had brought her what she really, really needed – A Life.

Click on this link to read the Holy Family report, then have a good look at the whole site. let me read it!

I’ve now read it several times and I still don’t know if I love it or loathe it.
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