For the past few years, on Sundays during the Easter period, groupsof Catholics fill city squares (parks, shopping centres and the like) andcelebrate the liturgy giving a testimony to Christian life. Very often theseplaces are crossroads of trade, leisure, entertainment and commute trails,hence the celebrations raise actual bewilderment in busy passers-by. Suddenly,by imposing sacral references on the spaces of the profanum, theybecome symbolic places, the embodiment of a living Church on the move.The article attempts to read these specific meetings in the context of culturalphenomena: a theatre play, a live performance act, flash mobs, andothers. The article also contemplates the construction of meaning of suchspace interpreted anew through the prism of these forms of evangelisation.
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