[Magdalen] Heather Cook

[Roger Stokes]

On 05/11/2015 17:54, Jim Guthrie wrote:
>
> Certainly Holy Apostles has been consecrated -- I believe twice -- 
> after it was constructed, and after repairs following a disastrous 
> fire some years ago. Doesn’t stop them from using it as a cafeteria to 
> serve the homeless.

The purpose of consecration is to set the place aside from progane or 
unholy uses.  Whatever the merits or not of serving alcohol at a church 
event feeding the gunbgry is an act of charity enjoined on us by Christ 
himself.  As such it is certainly not unholy.

Roger