[Magdalen] Palm Sunday in San Francisco.

[Molly Wolf]

My goodness.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Mar 29, 2015, at 1:34 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> This was posted on the DioBeth List, and I thought it was
> interesting.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8OnRP9hUZk
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> I won't bother with my usual comments, since my views on this
> Saint Gregory of Nyssa parish in San Francisco, CA USA
> are probably much too well known.
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> But maybe two comments:
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> (1) The twirling colorful umbrellas during the Palm Procession
>      have been borrowed from the Coptics, who use  them 
>      ceremonially to keep away flying insects  from the vicinity
>      of the altar.
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> (2)  I know well a Russian Orthodox deacon who has a friend who
>      is a Coptic deacon, and they have both  experienced St. Gregory
>      of Nyssa's Liturgy first hand.  They  came away offended that
>      so many Coptic/Orthodox liturgical  Traditions have been borrowed and
>      used completely out of context,.
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> It is a free world, and there is no such thing as liturgy police.
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> David Strang.