[Magdalen] Hymnals and Perspective.o

[thedonboyd at austin.rr.com]

As one who was confirmed in 1960 and was accustomed to a more or less "high" Methodist Sunday morning service that was quite similar to MP (Sunday and Wednesday eves were more evangelical-flavored), I still miss corporate MP.  "Evensong" is nice, but where I've encountered it, it has more a flavor of choral performance than of corporate worship.  No complaint from me about the Eucharist as the principal service but I believe we lost something significant when we stopped praying MP and EP in congregation.

I know younger people in my parish who have never in their lives been in a congregate offering of MP or EP, and some of them haven't even read through the texts in the '79 BCP.  Their loss, IMO.

These same younger people are better acquainted with Compline than with EP.  Figure that!

Don in Austin 
---- Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> I came into TEC at this time and did not understand much about it until a 
> decade and a diocese later (was in the fairly liberal dio of Central NY at 
> the time, but had a Mother in-law, cradle Episcopalian who was abjectly 
> opposed to weekly Eucharist... ("made it seem unimportant") in fact, the 
> church where we all went phased it in from every other Sunday, for two 
> years, alternating with MP/sermon, and finally went full bore Eux every 
> Sunday after that.
> L