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To: AlbionGirl

Don't they still have Guy Fawkes Day?


64 posted on 12/12/2004 6:40:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway; AlbionGirl
Don't they still have Guy Fawkes Day?

Actually they don't. The old prayers specifically for Guy Fawkes day have been removed from the prayerbook. They were pretty pointedly anti-Catholic, and since the Oxford Movement there has been a strong group in the Anglican Church seeking, if not reunion with Rome, at least a thawing of relations.

Funny thing . . . as a former Anglican I still am settling in to my new Catholic parish (haven't even been there a year yet). We were in choir practice, and somebody mentioned Guy Fawkes day. I looked up and grinned and said, "Hey! I get to cheer for the other side now!" About half the folks in the room knew what I was talking about and laughed -- the other half are like, "these nutty Episcopalians, what is she talking about?"

85 posted on 12/13/2004 4:14:27 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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