[Magdalen] Saint Michael and All Angels.

Marion Thompson marionwhitevale at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 13:46:30 UTC 2015


If I happen to be the intercessor I always restore the proper 
references, as does our head server if it happens to be him. :-)

Marion, a pilgrim

On 9/30/2015 6:36 PM, Roger Stokes wrote:
> On 30/09/2015 23:22, Marion Thompson wrote:
>> No, somewhere out on our prairies; probably the same end result.  He 
>> spent some years at the now-defunct (he was the priest who saw its 
>> merger with another church in the area) St. Margaret's in Toronto, a 
>> prayerbook church founded as an evangelical response to 
>> Anglo-Catholicism. Why in God's name would a bishop send him to us?  
>> Just another breathtaking example of episcopal insensitivity.
>
> I'm afraid some Evangelicals can be like that.  They forget that the 
> Anglican tradition has breadth and seeks to incorporate different 
> styles of worship and different emphases, thinking that their 
> understanding and their preferred style is the only valid one.  As to 
> why the bishop sent this particular priest, probably just somewhere to 
> put him.
>
> Incidentally after sending my last post I wondered if somebody would 
> be brave enough to overrule his redactions and put in the "Saints" and 
> refer to Our Lady in the normal wau while reading the prayers. If 
> someone referred to her as "Blessed Mary, ever virgin" then you should 
> probably have an ambulance outside ;-)
>
> Roger
>



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