The debut is set for next week.
The Gospel of Luke will be performed next week at St. Mark’s Catholic Church next Wednesday at 12:30pm. This will be the first full performance, and it will be for clergy, deacons, and school officials, with the hope that they will see enough value in it to consider it for their school curriculum in the Fall.
Yesterday, I met a Volunteer Services Coordinator at a local prison, and we set up a tentative schedule of Tuesdays and Thursdays, after I have completed the required volunteer training in a couple of weeks.
So thing are beginning to get underway. Now I will be focusing on assisted living facilities, to see if there is any interest in performances there.
All of this might allow me to fulfill all the requirements for my senior project in the Fall at Boise State University, part of which requires me to perform the Gospel of Luke in at least three different venues.
I should mention that this is not the entirety of the Gospel of Luke. I have memorized from the beginning through chapter nine, verse 50. This is a natural break in the narrative, and at over an hour long, this seems enough to start with.
If there is enough interest, and the project seems to be self-sustaining, I would like to add chapters of Luke’s Gospel until the entire thing is completed, and then start adding chapters from the Acts of the Apostles, but that is a much longer-term goal.
Now all the preparation and effort will be tested. Real people will see it, and deliver their verdict on whether it should be allowed to expand. I always expect difficulties along the way, including here at the first performance. It would be great if they decided to include it in their schools.
This is beginning in a local Catholic church, and I hope to expand to other churches and denominations. It will be interesting to see how it is received elsewhere. I don’t really know what inter-church relations are like, and this will expose me to some of these outside relationships.
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