U2charist

I went to my first U2charist tonight. It's a Eucharist service set to the music of U2. It was pretty interesting- they are doing a series of ten for the ten Millennium Goals from the UN. Since tomorrow is World AIDS Day, tonight's focus was the eradication of HIV/ AIDS. They had a girl from AIDS Vancouver Island in to talk to us, and tell us her story. She is from Kenya, and is HIV positive. It was a pretty sad story, and she told it well. The whole experience was pretty odd for me - I didn't know any of the songs (all U2 songs, of course) but the live band was pretty good (with a priest on drums...)and they had the words on a screen so you could sing along. Lisa, I think you would have liked it. Not a lot of people there, but it was at the UVic Interfaith Chapel, rather than a regular church, and I think that meant that fewer people came. The prayers and the whole service were pretty directly focused on helping, and overcoming this pandemic, and so were very different than I'm used to. I liked it though.