[Maeve]

Does your bit of the Christian vine really do doctrine by saying "X is okay with me, but not okay with him, and we're okay with that"? That's not the Church. That's a Love-In with Yoko Ono.

And that is assuredly not the Anglicanism of the great Caroline Divines my Catholic Grandfather had me read (Lancelot Andrewes & Co.) who would have chewed you up (and me too for that matter) in a New York minute.

[BelegStrongbow]

Charity is in short supply here, so I will restrict myself to saying that what is celebrated in my church is what I read from the Missals and lectionaries. We have no IC service, so there is no mention of it liturgically. It is a private pious belief on the part of a parishioner. So far as the Church is concerned, the BVM is the Theotokos and that's that.

In Christ,
Deacon Paul+