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To: sionnsar

"As I noticed that my worship experience with the Anglicans must in some way be similar to that of early Christians, I realized that I am interested, and am kept interested because of the fire of passion that blazes within me. I am interested because I know (in same way) the One we speak of in the Creed, who we hear about in our Gospel reading, who we sing about in our songs, and who we eat and drink in the Great Feast of the lamb, our Holy Eucharist. It is the Spirit who draws us, even as He drew the saints of old."

This doesn't sound like a bored person to me. I'm thinking that the article is a critique of those who do demand entertainment, who think that unless the whole ceremony is lively in the ecstatic sense it isn't a useful or interesting thing at all.

I think the author is trying to rebuke the 'enthusiasts', of whom Agnlicanism had a good number. That was the original term used for what later became 'latitudinarianism'.


10 posted on 08/22/2006 6:27:06 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (www.stjosephssanford.org)
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To: BelegStrongbow
I'm thinking that the article is a critique of those who do demand entertainment

Good point - I missed that the first time.

12 posted on 08/22/2006 7:25:56 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Mother of a horde: it's not just an adventure - it's a job!)
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