[rollei_list] OT: Episcopalians
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:46:39 -0400
At 03:02 PM 3/23/2008, Robert Lilley wrote:
>As for us, well, we are Episcopalians who continued down the path of
>expediency and higher biblical criticism so far that we've become just=
plain
>old liberal human secularists.
Hmm. The ECUSA (Episcopal Church in the US of A)=20
has lost 2/3 of its membership over the past=20
forty years. Most of those drifting away well,=20
just drifted. Some did become Catholic or=20
Orthodox or Baptist or, probably, Ba'hai, but,=20
for the most part, most folks just drifted off in=20
refusal to accept the meaningless and rushed=20
changes forced on the liturgy and hierarchy of=20
the Church and most have just been sitting around rather dazed by it all.
Every decade or so I try to reconnect with the=20
ECUSA but always find the experience rather=20
unfulfilling. When I can find a Church which=20
runs a Rite I 8:00 AM service on a Sunday, I=20
might well be there, or for the imposition of=20
ashes on Ash Wednesday, or the like but, for the=20
most part, I tend to say my private prayers and=20
restrict my Church attendance to occasions when I=20
feel a need to have the Sacrament administered by=20
someone who is in Holy Orders within a Church=20
which has maintained the Apostolic Succession,=20
regardless of the Priest's political and social bent.
Two dioceses in the ECUSA are leaving the=20
Church. One has already done so and everything=20
save for Excommunication has poured out of=20
ECUSA. The other is being more stately in its=20
exit, and this is my old Dioceses, that of=20
Western Pennsylvania, in the Cathedral of which I=20
used to be a choirboy, back in the=20
Longago. Right on, Brothers! (One of our List=20
members occasionally subs in my old Church,=20
Trinity Cathedral, as an organist. The=20
Presbyterians next door ALWAYS sing louder but,=20
then, one of the defining marks of being an=20
Anglican is an inability to sing with much=20
volume! Even Samuel Gelbfisz, of MGM, once=20
bounced a picture which included a scene set in=20
an Episcopal Church where the congregation was=20
singing lustily: "Jews intone, Catholics chant,=20
and Baptists, now the Baptists sing. But=20
Episcopalians? They mouth the words.")
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh b=E0s fir gun ghr=E0s fir!
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