[presidio9]

I noticed your tagline for a traditional Anglican faithline, and I have a question for you. Yesterday I attended a memorial service commemorating Alexander Hamilton's 250th birthday at his grave outside Trinity Church in NYC. The vicar who presided offered a non-denomination reading. This sort of offended me. Here we were praying for the soul of a Christian man, and the vicar went out of her way to avoid the "J" word. Is that sort of thing common at Anglican services, or was it just liberal NY kookiness at the grave of one of conservatism's forefathers?

[sionnsar]

the vicar went out of her way to avoid the "J" word. Is that sort of thing common at Anglican services, or was it just liberal NY kookiness at the grave of one of conservatism's forefathers?

I can assure you that's not Anglican -- just read through The Order for The Burial of the Dead in our 1928 Book of Common Prayer (sadly, we conducted that service twice in our church November and December, so it's fresh). To be found therein:

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JESUS said, Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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But you're talking about Trinity NYC, which appears to be about as apostate liberal Episcopal (and unAnglican) as it is possible to get. Your report does not surprise me.