[Magdalen] Youth Sunday

[Grace Cangialosi]

Oh but Jim, surely you heard about the town in Texas that was so small, even the Episcopalians handled snakes?! 

> On May 4, 2015, at 1:10 PM, "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> From: Lynn Ronkainen
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>> Episcopalian worship comes in slightly different flavors.  There are larger churches able to keep every day on the calendar with its appropriate Holy or
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> Having traveled around the country over the years (especially in the early 1980s when I was travelling a lot, I think "slightly" may be something of an understatement.
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> From English Catholic traditions to Mediterranean Catholic traditions, to Eastern Orthodox traditions to "can’t tell the difference from the Methodists" low church traditions and more recently aggressively inclusive language tradition there a dozens of quite different "flavors" found in the Episcopal Church. And then there are the parishes with a Pentecostal approach -- and a few TEC parishes that joined the speaking in tongues brigade. About the only thing I haven't heard of or run into directly in TEC parishes was snake handling <g>
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> But I'm thinking more of the past 20 years or so, especially after RC families came to TEC parishes because they had young boys , for example. Betrayal by their church doesn’t translate to changing their idea of what "church" should be.
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> Cheers,
> Jim