Posted on 03/06/2008 12:55:56 PM PST by NYer
What new goals were discussed? Were they stupid things like deacons serving communion in clown costumes, or liturgical dances done by strippers?
Stations of the Millennium Development Goals [Episcopal church descent]
As Chris Johnson of MCJ says from time to time, it's becoming impossible to parody the Episcopal Church because everything they do is a parody anyhow.
If I didn't know better I might suspect that this was their plan all along. Want to get rid of those who parody you? Go sooooo far out in left (pun intended) field that you're impossible to pardoy. Now that's all kinds of 60's, drug-induced, brain-baked (TEC's current vapid heirarchy) brilliant!
Sadly, no, it's even worse than that. They take themselves very seriously.
With all their maneuvering, lying, bloviating, and so forth while viciously suing the life out of dissenting parishes, the ECUSA hierarchy has taken all the joy out of its church.
In addition to Scripture, Truth, and Christ, of course.
No room a cross station for the unborn slaughtered in partial birth abortions which Episcobaalian staff attorneys defended
The plan was to discuss what the church should do in the next 15 years, and then make a poster for discussion. I was there for the morning session, my wife for the afternoon.
I was looking for the “Humor” in the keywords. It’s ain’t there.
“When liturgy and devotion become the servants of political activism”
Is there any way this is not mortal sin?
Truly, the pissalopians have become a living Monty Python sketch.
It was kinda creepy in there. I was baptized, confirmed, and married in the Cathedral parish, so I know the place quite well.
As I walked back towards the sanctuary I passed the old Hall of Bishops and there was a huge cloth labyrinth on the floor -- and this grey-haired old moonbat sitting barefoot in the middle of it in the lotus position with his eyes closed and his thumbs and middle fingers together. I laughed out loud and had to turn it into a cough.
Look, you want to be a Buddhist or a Hindu mystic or a New Age Wiccan, go join a temple or a coven somewhere! Don't sit on the floor in the middle of an Episcopal cathedral pretending to be a saddhu!
In a way, though, that grey headed old guy sitting all by himself in a large empty room in a large empty cathedral, doing nothing, is sort of a metaphor for the condition of the church.
In the tract rack they had an issue of the weekly bulletin in which that toadying old timeserver of a dean purported to explain that it was 'not a schism' and not even a 'split', just 'certain individuals' who don't appreciate the traditions of the Episcopal Church who are 'afraid of growing with the gospel' and have 'vested interests' in sowing dissent, and who 'disagree with the election and consent and consecration of an honestly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, and they are not finished talking about it.' . . . and remember, we're not like those awful Roman Catholics . . .
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Hilarious — start to finish. Even the labyrinth is a painted cloth. Lordy, lord, have mercy!
I would guess (assuming Ye Olde Moonbatte is around 6' tall) that it's around 30 feet in diameter. It takes up most of the floor in one end of a large hall. They probably move it around on a flatbed sedan chair . . . .
A convent in the south part of our county has a genuine, inlaid stone outdoor labyrinth, out in the woods. It is a wonderful experience to be in nature and walk it. They even keep it illuminated at night, which is when I walked it the first time, and had an illuminating experience when my shadow blocked out the night lights as I walked the path — the sudden panic of whether I was still on the right path was replaced by the scripture "a lamp unto my feet" flooding over me.
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