[Magdalen] Feast.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

People tend to do pretty much what they decide they want to.  I recall the
rector at the time of a parish that shall remain nameless remarked that the
bishop at that time was a stickler for following certain protocols in
regards to a service which shall remain named the Eucharist, and the rector
just said, "We have always done it using lay persons, and we'll keep on
doing that. I won't tell the bishop, but if he finds out, I'll just say
that's the way we do it. I don't think it's a big thing."

At the end of the day, one can say til the cows come home that if it's in
the bcp, it's required, and if nobody is going to enforce it, and we all
know that nobody is going to enforce it, then it's what is commonly
regarded as a "suggestion."

Should it be required? If 'shouds' were nickels, we'd all be millionaires.
I probably should not repeat the wisdom Albert Ellis imparted when he wrote
that people need to avoid "should"-ing on themselves, so I will not ...

http://albertellis.org/milestone-misery-stop-shoulding/

Hope the people who read this enjoy it!  Happy new year to both of you!

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 29/12/2015 21:03, Jim Guthrie wrote:
>
>>
>> An interesting phenomena in TEC is that so many people think everyone
>> else does things the same, and are slaves to the BCP. But the reality is
>> that most every parish does things just a bit differently -- some radically
>> differently.
>>
>
> That is not peculiar to TEC.  This side of the pond our liturgical book is
> called "Common Worship" but it includes four Eucharistic rites (1662 order
> or more modern, bith in a choice of traditional or contemporary language)
> with various options in each. I don't know how many options that gives us
> in terms of the words that are said - and then there's the choreography or
> ritual.
>
> A subset of that is hymn choice -- every parish has their list of favorite
>> hymns and want them  used often (at the expense of liturgical integrity --
>> same as if they had favorite scripture passages and the lectionary was
>> thrown out the window). But every parish has a pretty different hymn
>> nostalgia, so going fromparish to parish,one will find certain hymns
>> scheduled regularly in one because everyone loves it, but the next parish
>> they've never heard of it, let alone used it in worship.
>>
>
> Equally true.
>
> Roger
>