I used to swing the censer too. We had contests to see who could get the best and biggest clouds of smoke to come out. Place used to look like a politician's caucus room. We censed caskets during funerals, altars, books, and other people. Our goal was to make the people in back pews cough but we never achieved it -- it was a pretty big church.

The other thing we used to do was carry torches during solemn high masses. These were actually poles with a red glass cylinder that was fixed in a U-shaped yoke so that the cylinder could swing by its top -- hold a soup can at the top with two fingers and you get the idea. Anyway, the procession looked grand and at least some of the torchbearers burned their fingers on the hot glass when trying to lift the glass and blow out the candle (hint: lift it BELOW the level of the candle flame!).

We got incensed at church last night, but nobody uses torches anymore.

(I understand that at the Good Friday service the young priest said things like "Jesus died in the Garden". This ranks right up there with his earlier statement that the US celebrates Memorial Day on May 1. People are starting to think that he wasn't exactly at the head of his seminary class.)