[Magdalen] Suzie and Center Aisle

[Roger Stokes]

On 29/06/2015 19:30, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> On 6/29/15 9:27 AM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>> In the Lutheran church I attend, the baptismal font is up front on 
>> the way
>> to the communion rail and always contains water. Many people (not 
>> all, but
>> certainly all the misplaced Episcopalians!) dip their fingers in the 
>> font
>> and make the sign of the cross on their way to communion.
>
> Uh... This misplaced Episcopalian wouldn't: I never got into Holy 
> Water, and neither did any of the people at St Philip's that I ever 
> noticed, though I suppose it was always there for a reason, probably 
> to do with the beliefs of the priests and Altar Guild as to what was 
> proper.  I also noticed that my daughter's RC best friend, when 
> visiting the parish and looking at our beautiful "stuff", did dip her 
> fingers, cross herself, and genuflect (though there wasn't Communion 
> happening at that time: it was just an empty nave and sanctuary, 
> (empty except for the Altar, Reserve Sacrament and the Presence Light 
> (and, of course, art and symbols); which I believe she understood, but 
> I didn't say anything).

The genuflection would be for the Reserved Sacrament.

Roger