There is a Season.

A person commented on my Clown Communion post with this remark: "Right. One thing that Christ is incapable of is a smile." Based on that comment, I don't think he understood my post so I lifted this from my com box to explain why I feel so negatively toward clowns, mimes, "liturgical" dances and other abuses of the Divine Liturgy of the Mass. I hope my commenter doesn't believe that I only think of Christ as the scriptural "man of sorrows." At times Jesus played with kids, at other times he withdrew to pray. Sometimes he wept, but that is not the point of my post. It's about the solemnity of the Mass which we also call the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar. During Mass his sacrifice on the Cross is re-presented to the Father on our behalf. He is not re-crucified, that is a once and done event in history. Here goes:

Simonas,
There is a time and a season for everything under heaven. When Jesus becomes present on the altar in a validly celebrated Catholic or Orthodox Mass, heaven is opened and literally comes to earth. All the angels as described in revelation sing "Glory Glory Glory." In the Book of Revelation the Mass is described in metaphorical terms and no where is there anything equivalent to clowns, jesters in the court presiding over the great feast. Please read Scott Hahn's book The Lamb's Supper for more on this. This is the time to throw ourselves on our knees and faces and worship in spirit and in Truth. It is not the time to display levity, foolishness, mime etc.

Perhaps if I frame it out like this you could understand it. Imagine, the priests of the Old Testament officiating in the holy of holies, and they thought to spice it up and bring it down to the level of the people, they decided to put on their dancing shoes and white face! Oy ve'.
As Catholics, we believe that Christ literally enters the room at the time of the consecration of the elements. Imagine the Queen of England coming into a room and you decide to greet her in whiteface and big red rubber nose. Ouch! Someone much more royal than the Queen of England is present at every Mass. That is why it seems like a mockery of the greatest miracle that still happens each day in every Mass across the world.

There is a time and a place in Catholic devotional life for us to joyfully throw ourselves into His loving arms. We can do that in a spiritual sense in the Mass, but it is not the place for clowns. Catholic saints throughout the ages have written and preached about a joyous loving intimate relationship with Christ. Read Therese of Lisiuex, St. Faustina, and you will see that Catholicism celebrates with great joy our relationship with our Father God. But the Mass as it has been celebrated for 2000 years has always been solemn and the highest form of worship God has allowed us this side of the veil. When we yearn to go back to the way things were in the early church in our worship, we have to get ready to Celebrate the Sacrifice, not "Send in the Clowns."

I can't be sure but I think it would be safe to say that Christ, as he ex-sanguinated, hanging on the cross presenting his Body to the Father for all of mankind, was not smiling. Just to reiterate once again, in Mass, Christ is not re-sacrificed, but His sacrifice, which goes beyond the mortal bounds of time and space, is again re-presented to the Father at every Mass. If you can get a glimpse of that for yourself , you will see why some of us Catholics become nauseated at the thought of clowns, mimes, jesters, etc anywhere near an altar in a Catholic Church.

There is a time and a season for everything under heaven and the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar as it was termed by the early Church Fathers is neither the time of the place for clowns, jesters, mimes and dancers. They would not have been tolerated in the Temple either. Besides WWJD?
He freaked out when he saw His Father's house being defiled. I can do no less.