i think it’s only fair if we can send the NONtraditional anglicans our leftwingers, who insist on trying to ordain women and otherwise muck things up. you can always tell who they are in Mass, because they will try to ALTER the prayers by saying alternative words in a LOUD voice. there were two guys behind us at Mass on Sunday who set my gaydar a’clanging. Sure enough, while they didn’t NOT say for us MEN and our salvation [the wingnuts are SILENT for the men and just say US] he did say “became FLESH” instead of became man. my eyes rolled out of my skull. it is irksome when people scream out the responses like they are group leaders or something anyway, let alone someone who is doing so while materially altering the prayers!
My big pet peeve happened again recently when Jesus called them to be fishers of men but our gospel said He called them to “fish for people”. That is so ridiculous it even sounds stupid. I am guilty of saying OFCOL out loud every time I hear that gospel and then muttering ‘what is so intimidating about fishers of men?’
We don’t have those kinds of people here. Just the hand-holding types for the Our Father and the fleets of Extraordinary Ministers. Which, I can accept, especially when Fr. Doug rambles on in his homily.
And altar girls.
(In Ireland they said “became incarnate” which is a better translation of the Latin anyway.)
I have NEVER heard anyone alter a prayer IN church like that.....or even out of church.
We Calvinists even alter the Lord’s Prayer saying “Debts and Debtors.” I guess it’s a Puritan thing, I dunno.