[Magdalen] End of an Era.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Jim G>Coincidence is not Causation, but the steep decline in TEC membership 
seems to
coincide with the demise of MP as Principal Service..

And the liturgy of the Eucharist is what is bringing in people today.... 
Causation or Coincidence??
Lynn



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From: "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 11:39 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] End of an Era.

> From: Ann Markle
>
>>It says pretty clearly in the BCP that HE is to be the main Sunday
>
> Is that why it starts on Page 355?
>
> service.  Therefore MP is unrubrical and not in compliance with the DDW of
>
> And MP is the First Rite in the BCP? First things first, I think.
>
>>TEC.  Bishops are usually pretty forgiving of small parishes who do this 
>>on
>>rare occasion because they can't afford supply clergy - but the policy of
>>the church is clear since the 1979 BCP.  One more reason people were
>>infuriated by "the new prayer book."
>
> Who agreed to impose the policy? Not General Convention, certainly.
>
> Individual Bishops did so -- often in not too pastoral a manner, I must 
> add.
>
> The BCP's first paragraph says the Eucharist is the Principal ac of 
> Christian Worship on the Lord's Day-- and most parishes have always 
> observed that as the first service of the day as principal service. and 
> that Daily Morning and Evening Prayer are the regular services appointed 
> for public worship.
>
> If you're to take that paragraph at face value as **requiring** the 
> Eucharist, then it would seem incumbent upon any TEC cleric to  make sure 
> there's MP and EP as public worship daily as well.
>
> Coincidence is not Causation, but the steep decline in TEC membership 
> seems to coincide with the demise of MP as Principal Service..
>
> Cheers,
> Jim Guthrie
>
>
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