Holy muffins

A  'prayer cafe' is being run by a local church in Croatia, to keep the kids coming in.  At the Jedno cafe you pay for your food and drink with prayers.

"In the Acts of the Apostles, it says the disciples used to come together for a meal after the Eucharist, so we're following a biblical ideal," said Salesian Father Damir Stojic.

Parents and church leaders donate the food and drink.  Three Our Fathers buy you a coffee (four for a cappuccino), a Coke is five Hail Marys and a Glory be.  Not sure about the muffins,  but a quick Memorare should do it, with a decade of the Rosary if you want choc chip.   

Comments

[Alltruism]

Doesn't giving earthly incentives to make people say prayers detract from the meaning and value of those prayers? It is rewarding people for "going through the motions" rather than encouraging them to seek a meaningful relationship with their God.

Saying a prayer just because you want a muffin makes that prayer meaningless.

[Andrew Clarke]

Should there really be an upside-down cross in the coffee? ;)

[T C Niehuser]

Blessed are those that use prayer as currency, for they shall see a cross in their cappuccino.