I watched this with naive and unbelieving trust -- trust that the church of my mother and the community in which I grew up could not possibly be so dead set against reason, tradition, and truth.
For all that I am sorrowful over their embracing so readily (and so dishonestly) what all the Christian world (or very nearly) rejected, I am even more astounded that now they have thrown admission to Holy Communion open to all, even to the unbaptized!
What Justin Martyr, what Saint Paul took as given, that the Blessed Sacrament was too great to be trifled with, that they exuberantly ignore in the name of hospitality, while they feed the consecrated Bread to dogs and pour the Precious Wine in the flower bed.
And in spite of that, some still pretend to be "catholic." But it is all of a piece. The proper use of the reason is to perceive the Truth; and the proper use of the will is to walk in the ways of Truth.
But all this means nothing to the new Episcopal Church. They see truth as their property, while we rightly belong to Him.
So, once again and still and forever, truth is chained, scourged, mocked, and killed in the sweaty couches of pagans and sodomites.
It is sad, but not surprising.
I mourn with you.
It is not of the intellect, but of the whim. It is not of reason, but emotion. It is not of the ages, but of the moment.
It is the worship of the god in the mirror.