Posted on 05/25/2005 7:48:08 AM PDT by ELS
St. Mary the Virgin, NYC.
Grace Church, Pittsburgh
(You can tell they are Episcopalians by the vestments on the Deacon. Catholic deacons wear the dalmatic also, but traditionally with very narrow vertical stripes and no cross-piece appliqued across the chest. If they do have a cross-piece it's narrow and often two instead of one.)
P.S. . . . as a Liturgical Mentor I'm something of a Loose Cannon (or Canon) . . . I'm pretty up to date on Episcopalian practice in the South and in High Anglican parishes, but we're still working on learning the ins and outs of Catholic practice. . . . < g >
Interesting. I did not know they did that, though it is not surprising. If it's found in the Catholic church, you can usually find it in the Episcopal Church somewhere.
No matter how High Anglican though, it still looks like they're dressing up and playing church to me.
That's what it felt like for us, and when we tried to talk to people about the crisis, the response was, "I don't want to talk about it. I don't want my Sunday worship to be ruined."
Well, it's been a month since I left the choir and not a person has called or emailed to see how I'm doing. I got up and left in the middle of a rehearsal because I was sick of the choirmasters complaining and b!tching and bullying. He's been taking the choir more and more professional, and the church has been on a building spree and just crammed a new phase down the congregation's throat. So, I feel like, if they're going to a professional choir they don't need me. And if they have the money for a professional choir, they certainly don't need my little pittance.
Besides I'm sick of my contributions going to support huggy-bear up there in NY and the anal-sacrament (ouch, hurts to write that) in NH. I write that because he publicly stated that anal sex, sex with his adulterous, unnatural, sodomite partner was akin to a sacrament to him.
But, I didn't mean to be passive aggressive about the whole deal, but the fact that nobody has bothered to check up on me means nobody gave a poop about me there anyway, so i won't be looking back.
Onward into the Fullness of the Faith!
Nice picture! Thanks for posting it!
That is a shame though -- when we left our church I got a nice letter from our former choirmaster and several notes and Emails from fellow members.
(Wish they'd used the '28 exclusively instead of adding bits from the '79.)
Thank you for posting it in the Douay and in the exquisite Vulgate version.
I would think that there are enough former Episcopalians among Catholics in metro Atlanta to start an AU parish. But it would take vision, an priest with a great gift for starting from scratch, and the full support of the Archbishop.
When I looked up Psalm 115 on the USCCB site, it was something completely different. This is the same -- translation differing.
Did you read it?
Have you started RCIA, then?
Thanks for that info.
Confusing to say the least.
Since B-16 when Cardinal Ratzinger sent a letter on his own hook directly to the orthodox bishops at Plano, things may be looking up.
Problem is, the vast majority of the former Episcopalians in THIS area are evangelical/charismatic/"low church". Very few "crypto-Catholics", "ultramontane", whatever you want to call what we used to be (hey, we were weird.) Diocese of Atlanta is traditionally very low church.
Besides I'm sick of my contributions going to support huggy-bear up there in NY and the anal-sacrament (ouch, hurts to write that) in NH.
I find this strangely funny. It's sort of a stereotype (at least in my mind) that Episcopalians are a) have amazing choirs, and b) have become, in the words of National Review's John Derbyshire, "a dating service for homosexuals".
Ironically, the openly (as in flaming) gay guy in my office sings (very professionally, I might add) in his Episcopal church's choir. But I did enjoy his choir's performance of Mozart's Requiem last March.
Oh, they've pushed two open homosexual men onto the vestry in the last two years. The rector has wondered from the pulpit why he can bless their animals but not their unions. His name is James Nutter.
I may be too self-focused but I've felt cut off and marginalized for a while and I've wondered if I've been too open about my arch-conservative positions to the wrong people. Free Republic has tended to make me more not less believing in the maxim "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
My new church choir was recently the only outside-Vatican choir to sing one of the 9 vigil masses for the Great John Paul II, (gives me goose bumps of awe to type THAT!). I don't even think THEY fully comprehend what a big deal that was. I mean, to them of course it was huge, they were right in the middle of it. But could they imagine people like me following it on FR and EWTN hour after hour, day after day? Billions of people. Sancto, presto!
They are all amateur singers.
That is so cute!
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