Church may open a beer hall in a side chapel - Munich

St. Maximilian, a church in the Glockenbachviertel,is looking for new sources of revenue. As Bingo does not have a huge following in Germany Rainer Schießler, the parish priest, came up with the bright idea of turning the Korbinian chapel into a Kirchenwirtschaft similar to Andechs. Archbishop Marx’ office is not quite as enthusiastic as the young priest, confirming that alternative uses for various churches in Munich have been debated but that a beer hall is not quite what the archdiocese has in mind. Schießler has been working on this for three years and has requested active help from his parish. He claims that his plan is “the pastoral care of the future” and has already won over investors and a beer sponsor. Schießler knows what he’s talking about, he is the notorious priest who works as a waiter at the Oktoberfest.

Most churches built at the end of the 19th century were built to provide room for the influx of Catholic country-dwellers to the poor suburbs such as Au and Haidhausen, now they have outgrown their parishes. The Protestants are facing a similar problem, for example the Nazareth Church in Bogenhausen where part of the church is to be re-dedicated as an Encounter Center for the neighbors and church-goers.

Is Munich completing a full circle and going back to the monks for its daily liquid bread? And can drinking a nice cool Maß in a nice cool church on a hot summer day not be considered a kind of meditation? Brothers and Sisters, let us pray: Prost!

Let us pray...

Our Brewmaster
Who art in the Brauerei
Hallowed be thy drink
Thy Brauhaus come,
Thy beer be drunk
At Church as it is in the pub
Give us this day our foamy head
And forgive us our spillage
As we forgive those who spill against us
And lead us not into polizeikontrolle,
But deliver us from hangovers
For thine is the Bier, the Pils, and the Weißbier

Amen

this might actually get me to go to church more regularly...

I think its a great idea

Let's be honest, anyone that has ever been to church knows it is absolutely shit boring. It is simply no fun atall, whatsoever. If anywhere needs beer, it's a church. Imagine how much more tempting the catholic faith would be if you were served half-time beers, and maybe some peanuts, instead of getting either fuck all to drink, or having to share a goblet of watered down red grape juice with loads of flaky lipped old ladies. Fucking horrible - and the "food" they serve is simply appaling. some crappy little unseasoned, flavourless wafer, that sticks to the roof of your mouth like a fucking limpet, and you have to employ your fingernails to remove the bloody thing, which if you are a guitarist with decent fingernails, might inadvertently lead to a roof-of-mouth injury comparable with biting down on a toblerone at the wrong point. Ouch.

I'll say this now, if the pope made all churches serve beer, peanuts* and maybe he could chuck in a few blond girls dressed as angels that don't need clothes, because they've not eaten any poison apples, and who are up on on pedestals, with metal poles to help them worship the lord in style; well, the pope would have some seriously popular churches. He could even charge entry fees.


* or crisps, I'm cool with that. Diversity. Yay.

This guy is a genious.

http://www.thechurch.co.uk/