[Magdalen] Two questions for the assembled multitude

[Roger Stokes]

On 28/11/2016 17:27, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> On 11/27/16 8:22 PM, Arthur Laurent wrote:
>> My two (or three) questions for this Sunday:
>>
>> 1.  When did the Episcopal Church begin using Blue instead of Purple 
>> as the color for Advent? Why Blue?
>
> I'm getting into this late, and have seen all your other responses.  I 
> just want to add some "gossip" about the word "Sarum", which may or 
> may not puzzle you.
> It seems to be a "magic word" in the Episcopal Church especially, 
> maybe also CofE (ask Roger). 

Not noticed it here.

> It appears to me to be such because it's British Tradition and NOT 
> Roman, so you can still be Anglo-Cat while distancing yourself and 
> your part of the Church from Rome.
> There are a lot of colors called Sarum: I haven't done the research to 
> find sources for these: I've also heard Orange for Angeltide, for 
> example.

I think David S is right when he suggests it is an excuse for priests 
who want to do something different rather than having a genuine medieval 
foundation for their idea.

Roger