Critical Mass

MARGE and RICH FAUST are driving in the middle of nowhere struggling to find a remote Roman Catholic Church so they can fulfill their obligation to attend Sunday Mass. While enduring car trouble and a malfunctioning GPS, they recount their past attempts to squeeze in Mass while traveling or going to weddings or playing in golf tournaments or having car trouble.

 

They also express their frustrations that Catholics cannot miss their weekly Mass obligation or they will commit a mortal sin and go to hell if they don't go to confession prior to dying. They envy Protestants who have no such obligation and wonder why Catholics can't fulfill their Sunday obligation in a pinch by attending a Protestant service.

 

They finally find St. Paul's, but to their dismay it turns out to be St. Paul's Lutheran Church and not St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church. They meet a CATHOLIC PRIEST in the parking lot whose GPS also has led him to the wrong denominational church. Marge Faust comments to the priest that maybe God became a fallen Catholic and now is a Lutheran.

 

Cast: 
MARGE and RICH FAUST, a middle-age couple; CATHOLIC PRIEST, any age
Authors: 
Michael Zielinski