Students from the Harvard Extension School at Harvard University are hosting a “Satanic black mass,” which will take place tonight in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“A black mass ceremony is a ritual performed by satanic cults to parody the Catholic Church Mass. Historically, the ceremony features a ritual of sacrilege of the Catholic host, or the sacred bread used in the Eucharist, which becomes the body of Jesus Christ upon consecration,” the Harvard Crimson explains.
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The ceremony will model the script of the black mass articulated in novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans’ work “Là-Bas,” although a consecrated host will not be used. In addition, Christopher Robichaud, an ethics and public policy professor at the Kennedy School of Government, will speak at the demonstration to frame the event in terms of religious liberty and tolerance, according to the club.
The event has been condemened by the Archdiocese of Boston.
“This activity separates people from God and the human community, it is contrary to charity and goodness, and it places participants dangerously close to destructive works of evil,” the Archdiocese wrote in a statement earlier in the week.
A Harvard grad student emails to say, “Can you imagine them using a Koran or Torah and getting away with this?”
