Chapter I (Recorpistery)
At a time when man was ridden with filth in his everyday life, we -the church- brought him into the fold by an act which symbolically tied his accession to Christendom, with a cleansing from his soul of that scourge which he knew most intimately. We conveyed the sacramental mystery of transcendental rebirth, through the literal, relevant, and understandable act of bathing. Dirty Man was reborn with a clean body and a clean soul.
Now -just as when we elevated the initiation of Baptism to the level where it had its own buildings- we are at a point in our own heartland where the majority of people are not truly within the fold. We feel that the sacraments of initiation are no longer properly conveyed by an act which refers to a release from bodily dirt.
Today man’s body itself has shattered. Advertising’s use of the body part -and its imperfection- as a point of departure for purchase, has fragmented the container for our souls into an index of impossible goals. This list of irresolvable inadequacies (as one is perfected, the next in the inventory simply pops up) creates an anxiety that is as ever present, as tangible, and as unpleasant as was the pain and discomfort brought about by filth and disease.
With the express aim of updating the initiatory sacraments, we propose to alter their form so that they may be transformative on a literal, and a spiritual level for contemporary man. Initiates will discard their broken bodies. They will be cleansed of anxiety and be reborn into complete, Christian vessels whose role is as a container for the soul. Fragmented Man will be reborn with a unified body and a contiguous soul.
We propose Recorporation as the evolution of Baptism.
I think i found the Patron saint of you recorpistery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Agatha